References Section
Executive Coaching References, Paul Wiseman, President, Partner Learning Solutions. 2021
As a C-Level executive with over 20 years of experience leading large revenue and operations teams, consulting to Private Equity and managing large turnarounds, I understand the value of a highly capable and effective Coach. When I recently decided to start a consulting practice, I was excited to have the opportunity to work with Paul and was not disappointed! His creative energy is infectious. A highly engaged and effective listener, Paul quickly helps identify what is most meaningful and impactful for his client, identifying a path to successful outcomes – 1 hour was transformative! I am looking forward to continuing the journey and feel very confident that with Paul’s support and insight, I will achieve my desired outcome. Highly recommended.
I came to Paul in a transitionary time. Since launching a new ecommerce venture, I’m also looking to re-invigorate my consultancy to support its growth… all with the goal to maintain life balance after years of senior leadership across travel, telecom, and marketing industries. Being an entrepreneur can be overwhelming, and you often feel you’re on an island. Paul helped me step back and define what success would feel like for the year ahead. From there, we translated it into big rocks, professional and personal, percent of time spend on each and tangible next steps to report back on. It helped me take a deep breath, answer some tough questions, and create structure to tackle the year ahead, while feeling like I had a new support to continue working through it all.
Paul Wiseman’s abundance of knowledge and real-world experience should have had me cowering in fear, claiming, “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!” But instead, I found myself telling him my deepest, darkest secrets. His positive attitude and light-hearted style helped bring me out of my otherwise hard shell and talk with him about a few pretty sensitive subjects right out of the gate.
Skillfully shifting between pointed questions and clear and honest feedback, he led me to places I would have never gone on my own. All the while showing me both in word and action that he was listening, engaged, and truly cared about my personal and professional success. I am confident that both I and my business have been changed for the better from talking with Paul. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to work with him, and I look forward to doing so again soon.
As a regional senior executive at Coca-Cola and more recently Google in Europe, I have experienced coaching from many perspectives and I would say that rounded in his many years as a successful business executive, Paul combines a genuine desire to help today’s and tomorrow’s leaders with a professional, yet deeply human approach to coaching. I can highly recommend Paul to anyone who is willing to be guided, challenged, and supported on their journey to a better understanding of their impact on themselves and the world around them.
I cannot speak highly enough of Paul’s integrity, experience, and talents. I base this on my own background—I began my career in private equity and venture capital, and then went on to be the President/CEO for various organizations. I’ve been involved at all stages of enterprise—start up, turnaround, growth. I’ve been in multiple industries: financial services, real estate, healthy lifestyle, university administration, search, and social media. And finally, personally I have had a number of coaches myself over the years.
Paul brings to bear skills and talents that can only come from his own hard-won depth of experience from many years leading companies. He brings to the table three essential sets of expertise: (1) he’s empathetic and asks thoughtful and insightful questions to help clients bring to the surface their key concern(s); (2) he’s superb at clarifying and framing issues in such a way that enables personally valid change or improved results; and (3) he’s gifted at coalescing teams to work collaboratively and effectively to reach new-found heights.
At a minimum, you can only benefit from at least an exploratory conversation with Paul to better understand all the ways in which he may be of value to you or your organization.
Names withheld to maintain confidentiality.