Paul is joining Rhema Group from his own practice, The Anderson-Walsh Consultancy. In the past 10 years he has worked with a wide variety of companies from the iconic Walt Disney Corporation to Sir Robert McAlpine, Franklin Andrews & Cundalls, Scott Wilson and Legal & General.
He has already been closely involved with Rhema on a major leadership training and development programme for Netherlands-based global vendor leasing company De Lage Landen, being rolled out through Europe and the USA.
In addition to his corporate work Paul?s wide experience has included working with numerous high profile professional football players, professional actors and musicians, lawyers, engineers, bankers, architects, and homemakers. He also has extensive experience of providing life counselling for varied types of people from married couples to young offenders. Over the last 20 years the number of coaching, mentoring or counselling hours that he has facilitated runs into literally thousands.
Paul began his career in the financial services industry with Schroder Financial Management. During his career in the FS business he received various quality awards (he still holds Chartered Institute of Insurance Financial Planning Certificates) and was also appointed Financial Advisor to both the Downs Syndrome Association and to SCAR (Sickle Cell Anaemia Relief) of which he is now Vice Chairman. He founded the IFA consultancy practice Partners in Sport & Entertainment to address the needs of professional sports people and entertainers.
More recently Paul?s emphasis has been on synthesising a combination of life coaching, mentoring and counselling into a process that he calls Life Coaxing. He has employed this method to great effect with groups and in one-to-one coaching for managers who are being asked to assume higher levels of people management responsibility as part of their career development.
In early 2000 Paul founded The Grace Project, a registered charity dedicated to empowering individuals to overcome life issues such as low self-esteem and poor self-image and identify their life purpose and fully embrace life?s opportunities while confronting its challenges.
He has authored several articles on the subject and lectures extensively on contemporary issues such as ?burnout.? He is in increasing demand as a public speaker at numerous conferences around the world and is mentoring identity coaches in both South & North America as well as in the UK.
Paul is currently engaged in writing his first book on the subject, entitled The Bonsai Conspiracy, which is expected to be ready for English publication by the autumn of 2006.
He is also currently involved in researching new programmes in The Management of Virtual Teams and Leading To Win - developing the leader/ manager through Emotional Intelligence. He is also completing a Masters Degree dissertation on ?value based leadership.?
Jeremy Francis, Rhema Group MD, welcomes Paul?s fuller involvement in the Rhema team: ?We have already seen the impressive quality of Paul?s work with one of our major clients, and we have come to value his personal strengths as much as we do his natural but well-polished abilities as a professional trainer, coach, communicator and leadership developer. We also have abundant evidence of how highly he is always regarded by the managers with whom he works.
?We are looking forward to Paul?s much closer and more intense involvement in Rhema Group itself and in the many different client projects we are delivering.?
Paul is looking forward to applying his experience, insight, methods and theories as a part of Rhema. He says: ?Although innate, leadership remains foreign territory for many managers because few have highly honed inter-personal leadership skills and often have adopted unhelpful, even harmful, disempowering and punishing patterns of relating to, and leading, their teams. Consequently I do a lot of work with each individual in understanding the impact of their behaviours on their organisation and their immediate circle of influence. Rhema as an organisation has values and goals I fully subscribe to and a highly respected professional record of success with major training projects. I?m delighted to be working much more closely with them.?
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