My unique approach helps you to solve the problems and challenges
you're facing in a way no other coaching or consultancy can.
SAVE TIME, MONEY & ENERGY
BY FINDING & FIXING THE REAL CAUSE OF PROBLEMS
IN YOUR BUSINESS,
CAREER OR LIFE INSTEAD OF
TREATING THE SYMPTOMS
THE SUMMARY
I'm a business coach and consultant helping business owners and high achievers to solve problems and challenges in a unique way, ultimately helping you to save time, money and energy that you can better spend on other parts of your life.
I have a very particular set of skills (like Liam Neeson in Taken...) that are unlike any other advisor you'll meet.
I've worked with millionaire business owners, former Olympic athletes and coaches, ex-professional footballers, top CEOs, MDs, executives and people from all walks of life, helping them to solve problems in a way no one else could.
If you're experiencing challenges that you haven't been able to solve, or something has come up and you don't know who to turn to for help, you can apply to work with me by submitting your details below, or scroll down for more information.
MEET PAUL
I'm Paul Cope.
And I have an unusual (maybe unique) combination of skills and experience.
I worked as a corporate lawyer at some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world. I then built my own boutique law firm from scratch at 29 years old before growing it and selling it six years later.
At the same time, I was building a separate online business that grew to 20,000 users in a few months, raised £350,000 in private equity investment and secured ex-professional footballers and a huge social media company as marketing partners.
I'd got married, built a property portfolio, lived in a stylish city centre apartment and drove a flash car. To the outside world it looked as though I had a perfect life, but behind the scenes I was depressed and suicidal.
I made one of the most difficult decisions of my life and decided to tear everything apart to figure out why I was so unhappy despite doing everything I'd been taught would make me happy.
I spent years — and every resource I had — going down a deep rabbit hole into the psychology and emotions that drive human behaviour. Figuring out why I made the decisions I made, what was driving the patterns I kept repeating and what was really going on beneath the surface of my professional life that had led me to such a dark place.
What I found transformed everything. I've now created a life that has all the freedom I ever wanted, with a business and lifestyle that makes me happy and fulfilled as well as successful.
And I've spent the years since sharing what I've learned and implemented in my own life with business owners and high achievers who are facing challenges, helping them to change their companies, careers and lives without having to tear everything apart and go through all of the pain and lost years that I went through.
I now coach and consult with people across the world — from ex-Olympic athletes and coaches and former professional footballers to multi-millionaires, CEOs and MDs who have challenges they can't seem to solve, no matter who they've hired.
I've also written two books rated 4.8 stars on Amazon: How to Solve Any Problem in Life and The 7 Secrets to Change Your Career.
If any of this resonates with you, click a button on this page to apply to work with me. If I have availability we'll book a free, no obligation discovery call in which we'll discuss your specific challenges, how you can overcome them and whether we'd be a good fit to work together.
If you're not sure whether I can help with whatever it is you're facing, submit an application and we'll talk it through. If I can't help I'll point you in the direction of where you need to go. The first call is completely free and completely confidential, so there's no risk in us talking.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
THE PROBLEM
Business problems are usually not what they look like on the surface.
Which is why lots of advisors struggle to solve them or, if they do solve them, it takes longer and costs you more than it needs to.
Your lawyers see it as a legal problem.
Your accountants see it as a financial problem.
Your commercial advisors see it as a commercial problem.
And they're all partly right, but they're all missing the same thing: the real cause.
Because what causes most problems isn't what you can see on the surface.
If you're asking yourself whether the problem you've facing is something I can help with, the answer is simple: yes I can.
That might seem like a big claim to make, but the reason is that it doesn't matter what the surface level problem is - if you haven't been able to solve it, there's a deeper lying cause that I'll be able to help you to find and fix once and for all, because all deep lying issues are based on the same human behavioural challenges we all face.
Whether you feel as though despite everything you've built you're still not happy or fulfilled or you feel trapped by your business, you have communication issues you can't overcome, repeated problems with employees or colleagues, anger or anxiety issues or anything else.
Whatever the problem is - however big or small - if you've been treating the symptoms without addressing the cause, the problem will keep coming back in different forms, with different names, but the same underlying issue driving all of it.
WHY TRADITIONAL ADVISORS CAN'T FIX IT
Most advisors are good at what they do but, counterintuitively, that can be part of the problem.
Your lawyer will draft you a watertight contract and advise you about the legal angle of your issue. Your accountant will analyse the numbers and advise you from that perspective. Your business advisor will produce a thorough strategy. They're excellent at what they do.
But what they do is limited to the way they see the world.
Your lawyer doesn't ask: "Why do you keep ending up in disputes?" Your accountant doesn't ask: "Why do you keep making this financial decision?" Your business advisor doesn't ask: "What is it about your leadership that's creating this dynamic in your team?"
That's not what they're trained to do. And that's not what you're paying them for.
The issue is that nobody is looking at your business, your decisions and your psychology as one connected picture, or looking at the real cause of the problems.
That gap — between the symptom-level advice you've been getting and the root-cause work nobody has done — is where I focus, which is why what I do is unlike any other advisor.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Most business advisors solve the problem you bring them.
I solve the problem behind that problem, and behind every other problem connected to it.
I bring three things to every project that nobody else can provide by themselves:
A legal mind.
I've got nearly twenty years of legal experience at the highest level, having been trained by some of the biggest and best law firms in the world, advising hundreds of companies and individuals during that time.
I've walked in your shoes.
I haven't just advised businesses - I've built them, I've sold one, I've raised investment, I've sat where you're sitting, made the decisions you're making and felt the weight of it all on my shoulders. I don't just advise based on theory, I know what it feels like to be you and how things work in real life, not just what they look like on paper.
Deep psychological and emotional expertise.
This is what most advisors don't bring at all. Human behaviour — how we make decisions, why we repeat patterns, what drives conflict, what creates the stories we tell ourselves about our businesses and our capabilities — is at the root of almost every problem I've ever worked on, in my own life and in the lives of all of my clients. I'm trained to work at this level in a way that no lawyer, accountant or commercial consultant is.
Which means what I provide is something that doesn't really exist anywhere else, with the result being I can solve problems faster and for less cost to you (in time and money) than anyone else can.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This works best for you if:
✓ You're a business owner or high achiever, typically 35+, who has a problem that hasn't responded to conventional advice or you're not sure who to turn to for help solving it
✓ You're experiencing conflict — whether in a business relationship, with key members of your team, or an internal conflict you want to overcome
✓ You've noticed a pattern that keeps coming up and causing you problems and you're ready to understand why so you can solve it once and for all
✓ You want to grow but something keeps holding you back
✓ You've built something and you're proud of it, but you still feel stuck or like something's missing, and you're ready to make changes so that you can have it all - success and happiness
✓ You want someone to help either with a one-off problem or project, or to provide ongoing support, advice and guidance as you change and grow your business and/or life
This is probably not for you if:
✗ You're not willing to look honestly at your own role in the situation. If you're certain the problem is always external, I won't be able to help you
✗ You're not at a stage where you can invest meaningfully in your own development and in your business
✗ You want someone to validate that your problems are everyone else's fault
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Every project I do starts with a free discovery call — a 60-minute conversation where we look at what's going on in your business, career or life, where you're stuck and whether we're the right fit for each other.
If we decide to work together, the structure is tailored to your situation. Some clients work with me intensively over a short period to solve a specific problem. Others engage on an ongoing basis as a trusted advisor sitting outside the formal structures of their business.
What doesn't change is that I go deep into the challenges you're facing. I'll ask the questions nobody else has asked, I'll tell you what I see without any bullshit and I'll work with you until we find the root, not just manage the symptom.
Everything we talk about is completely confidential and there's no judgment. There's nothing you'll be able to talk to me about that I either haven't experienced myself or haven't heard hundreds of times from other people.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Is this business coaching, consultancy or therapy?
It's a mixture of all three depending on what your specific situation needs. I provide a combination of strategic advisory, commercial thinking, legal analysis and psychological insight applied to the real problems in your business and your professional life.
I've worked with coaches and/or consultants before and it hasn't helped. Why would this be different?
Because most coaching or consultancy work addresses what you can see - the problem you bring to the session. I work on the root causes that are generating the problem in the first place. It's a different approach to any other coaching or consultancy, and clients usually comment on how different it is to anything else they've done before.
How quickly can I expect to see results?
Most people see some results immediately but obviously how quickly long term results can be achieved depends on your specific situation, which we'd discuss in detail before starting to work together.
What does this cost?
This is a bespoke, high-level service and I work with a limited number of clients at any one time. Investment levels are discussed on the discovery call once I understand your situation and what's needed. If you're serious about addressing a problem that's costing you — in revenue, in relationships, in opportunity or in quality of life — we can have an honest conversation about whether the investment works for you, but I always work with fixed, transparent fees so you know exactly how much working together will cost you before we start.
What if I'm not sure this is right for me?
Submit an application using a form on this page and if I have availability we'll have an honest conversation about what you're dealing with. By the end of it you'll have a clearer picture of what's actually happening in your business, and we'll decide if we're a good fit to work together. There's no pressure, no obligation and it's all confidential.
APPLY TO WORK WITH ME
If any of this resonates with you, just enter your details below and I will contact you to discuss your situation in more detail. We'll look at what's going on in your business, career or life, I'll ask a few questions, and by the end you'll have a clearer picture of what's actually happening and we'll know whether we're a good fit to work together.
There's no hard sell and no sales pitch because I'm looking for people I want to work with who I know will be a good fit for what I do.
Places are limited because I only work with a small number of clients at any one time.