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Meet Paula

Paula King is a psychologist and leadership coach. She is registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) on the Register of Competence in Psychological Testing. She is a member of the Society for Coaching Psychology. Paula holds an MSc in Coaching and Organisational Development from Portsmouth University and is Past President of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) Ireland. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC)  with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Master Practitioner Level EMCC holding a distinction in Coaching Supervision and Team Coaching also from the EMCC. She holds accreditation from the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry and embraces absolutely the approach to strengths-inspired instead of problematizing change.

Paula has received the prestigious ‘Best Global Coaching Leaders’ Award which was presented to her in Mumbai in February 2017 and is the first Executive Coach in Ireland to have received this international recognition. She has won the EMCC European Coach of the Year Award 2017.

Paula has over fifteen years’ experience in executive coaching, mentoring and training and has worked with many of the leading companies internationally in this respect.  She has experience, with a broad range of clients from Big 4 Accountancy to SME’s to multi-national organizations. Her current clientele consists of leaders with influence, CEOs, politicians and members of the media. She brings genuine warmth to her coaching interventions whilst consistently assisting her clients to achieve goals which may have seemed unachievable through an empathic and challenging approach.