Dr. Paula King

CEO of Kingstown College, Executive Coach & Lecturer Receipient Global Coaching Leadership Award – European Coach of the Year from European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)

Dr. Paula King is the CEO of Kingstown College. She holds a Doctorate in Psychology and an MSc in Coaching and Organisational Development from Portsmouth University and is founder and past President of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) Ireland and a Board Member with EMCC Global.

She is the author of “Becoming a Master Coach” which has been described as one of the most influential books for the coaching profession in recent times.

She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is credentialed at Master Practitioner Level with EMCC Global. She is also an internationally certified Team Coach and an internationally accredited Coach Supervisor.

She holds accreditation from the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry and wholeheartedly embraces the approach to strengths-inspired instead of problematizing change. She also holds qualifications in Psychometric testing and NLP.

Paula has received the prestigious ‘Best Global Coaching Leaders’ Award, which was presented to her in Mumbai and has won Coach of the Year from ICF (Presidents Award) and EMCC Global European Coach of the Year Award.

Paula has over twenty 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 organisations.

Paula’s current clientele consists of leaders with influence, CEOs, politicians, and members of the media. She brings genuine warmth to her coaching interventions and, using an empathic and challenging approach, works tirelessly to help her clients consistently achieve goals that may have seemed unachievable.