Paul Matthews

Current

• Managing Director at People Alchemy Ltd

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Websites

• People Alchemy Ltd

Paul Matthews’s Summary

Paul Matthews founded People Alchemy Ltd in 1999 after a distinguished career in industries as diverse as travel and engineering, during which time he held many positions, including senior posts in sales, customer service and operations, finishing at director level in a multinational IT company.

Since founding the company, Paul and several associates have provided consultancy, coaching and development for individuals and teams to many prestigious clients, including Barclay’s Bank Plc, Credit Suisse First Boston bank, Philips Semiconductors, General Motors, Roche, Deutsche Bank, Zurich Insurance, Ricoh, West Midlands Police and The Open University.

Along the way, it became evident that although an abundance of learning products was available to executives of all grades, there was nothing expressly designed to give today’s managers the one aid they really needed: an easily accessible source of authoritative and practical help with the problems they face on a day-to-day basis.

Drawing on his background in coaching, management development and IT, as well as an extensive network of senior business consultants, Paul embarked on a project to provide the answer to this need.

His vision is a resource that provides practical solutions to everyday management problems. Now, after several years’ development – and thanks to the efforts of a team of more than 90 authors, editors and software engineers – here it is...

Paul Matthews’s Specialties:

Management Support, Knowledge Management, Team Building, Coaching, Management, Leadership, Organisational Change, Personal Change, Sales, Marketing, Start up companies

Paul Matthews’s Experience

• Managing Director

  People Alchemy Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  June 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

  Paul is the founder of People Alchemy Ltd, which publishes a PC based knowledge support tool for managers. The tool provides managers with focussed and practical information on what they need when they need it.
  
  As a company, People Alchemy started as a provider of Executive Coaching, Team Building and Organisational Culture Change, as well as management and process consulting to medium and large organisations.
  
  The focus of the company is now on the unique management support tool developed by the company.

Additional Information

Paul Matthews’s Websites:

• People Alchemy Ltd

Paul Matthews’s Interests:

eLearning, technology and computing, emedia, knowledge management, psychology and personal development, NLP, hypnosis, skiing, scuba diving, travelling, conservation

Paul Matthews’s Groups:

Institute of Directors,
Orangutan Foundation,
(I seldom get them mixed up :-)

•    The Leaders in Learning

Paul Matthews’s Honors:

Winner of the sack race at school, age 10

(and a few others.. :-)