Why do I coach?

By Paul van Musschenbroek 28/01/2026 14:20

At age 57, I am at the absolute pinnacle of my usefulness. As society whispers, “it’s almost time to retire”, I reply with, “No, I am now ready!”

I have lived an incredible life – messy, beautiful, painful, rewarding. I have experienced joy, success, disappointment, romance, grief, excitement, addiction, anxiety and depression.  I have travelled the world and sat across from incredible people in boardrooms, community halls, and around kitchen tables. I have been a husband, father, brother, uncle, friend, businessman. I failed often and hard. I have been a proper student of life.

In my 50’s, a persistent question has been placed in front of me by spirit and intuition: “What now? What is your usefulness to the world after all this experience and learning? What is this next chapter?” After all these years of professional teaching, facilitating and coaching teams and leaders around the world, this now is my personal legacy chapter – where I have the most impact and be of my highest service:

To be a midwife for clarity and action in your journey through depression, and in your partnership with your adolescent children. And no, the two are not related. Why this? Because these have been my life’s biggest challenges and teachers.

I am not a clinician or therapist. I am an authentic, pragmatic, optimistic, qualified and experienced guide (coach) who can identify completely with your experience because these two topics have been the most prominent experiences of my life. I am not going to advise you on what to do. But I will help you discover it. If you are ready to look up and out and move forward, to turn learning into outcome, then I can be that guide.

I create, facilitate and lead conversations and engaging experiences in which you drop a bucket into your own inner wisdom well, find more clarity and commit to action that spirals upwards. I coach because of this fundamental truth: If you do things differently, you will have a different outcome. I’m interested in what you are going to do differently on Monday morning. These small behaviours are the gifts we give ourselves and others.