Standing Counsel
For the senior professional who doesn't need a programme but wants someone in their corner permanently — a peer with two decades in the seats you occupy, on call as things develop. Three sessions a month plus message access between them. Key components include, but are not limited to: - Three 60-minute sessions each month, scheduled as you need them - Message access between sessions for the things that can't wait - Continuity: no re-explaining your situation, your firm, or your history each time - Coverage across whatever arises — career decisions, team and management issues, the personal cost of the job
What's included
- Made the period's significant decisions with a sounding board rather than alone at 11pm
- Continuity: no re-explaining your firm, your history, or your situation each time
- A relationship that's already in place when something urgent arrives, rather than one you have to find then
Meet your expert
Paul W.
Life Coach for Finance Professionals — I've Sat in Your Seat and the Storm
I've spent twenty-plus years in Asian equities, in every seat the industry offers. Ten years on the sell side at CLSA in Tokyo and Hong Kong, ranked Asiamoney #1 best analyst in the region five years running. Five years inside hedge funds — running my own book as a portfolio manager at Horizon, and most recently as a senior analyst on a Japan market-neutral pod at Millennium. In between, five years independent as founder, CIO and head of alternative investments: I launched a hedge-fund allocation practice for family offices, conducting due diligence on 100+ managers, then co-founded an asset management firm and took it through SFC licensing as its Responsible Officer, growing it from a private-equity and real-estate shop into a multi-strategy alternatives platform. Today I also design and build agentic-AI research workflows for my own global-equities portfolio. Born and raised in Hong Kong, educated in England, and lived in Japan for a decade. Native English and Cantonese, fluent Mandarin and Japanese.
