Paul 'Stalkie' Stalker

Since Paul 'Stalkie' Stalker was 16 years of age, he has been inspiring people to break through their self-limiting beliefs and achieve their utmost desires. His motivational story of rising from school failure and overcoming a life-threatening illness to working with the UK's top businesses and business leaders has inspired many people.

His story is one of overcoming self-doubt; his own uniquely limiting beliefs and fighting the system against all odds most certainly qualifies him as an undeniable authority in the arena of peak performance and extraordinary human achievement. Stalkie's tale and the manner in which he shares it, illustrates the true power of the mind over outside influences.

Stalkie holds an audience's attention through his personal stories of a mis-spent youth, to building a business which made him a million and which he promptly lost. Stories of being given 12 weeks to live to flourishing again as an entrepreneur, a business coach to FTSE 100 companies, a life coach to business leaders, high performance sports personalities, disaffected schoolchildren and life serving prisoners.

He understands and shows people how they can transform fear into power, obstacles into opportunity, and tragedy into triumph.

A brief history of Stalkie

1982
I left school at the age of 15, my teachers having written me off as a complete failure. My dyslexia and bad attitude meant my ability to learn in the school environment was appalling. My writing was poor and my reading even poorer.

I firmly believe that if my teachers had spoken to me, questioned me and found out what motivated me, then used that information in an intelligent way, I could have been taught very successfully. But they didn't so I had to find other ways of making it.

1984
At this time I started operating outside the box and looking at life a little differently. I was introduced to a series of tapes called The Psychology of Winning by Dr Dennis Waitley, one of America's most respected authors and speakers on high performance human achievement. These tapes were a complete revelation to me - here was somebody who was talking a language that I understood.

One of my first jobs was selling space on Exchange and Mart - communicating with complete strangers on the telephone held no fears for me. One of my clients was a number plate dealer who helped me set up my first business selling number plates.

1985-88
The business traded for three years before folding. I started again on my own and within the year I had launched my own publishing company, The New Concept Group.

1998
Ten years later it was such a viable concern that a venture capitalist company invested a lot of money in the business and I became a millionaire on paper overnight. On the surface everything was going well, I was earning good money; my wife was expecting our second child and my life must have seemed charmed. But I worked 12-14 hours a day and hardly saw my wife, let alone our daughter.

1999
It was after a weekend away with friends and family that I discovered a lump on my neck. At first I thought it was where I had been carrying my daughter on my back in a harness, but it didn't go away. I went to an osteopath whose advice was to see a GP immediately. The doctor took one look at me and said 'I think you've got cancer'.

The following nine days of tests were the worst days of my life. My worst fears were realised when I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Cancer Grade 2A.

A nutritionist revealed that what I thought was a healthy diet was in fact full of potentially carcinogenic substances and I was advised to start cleaning my act up immediately. Meat, dairy, fat and alcohol were all banished and a number of supplements recommended.

Chemotherapy did not work. My body was not responding to treatment because my blood was of too poor a quality. My good cells were too low in number and I was given 12 days to live.

I set myself new goals: To clean up my blood I started juicing organic green vegetables with a vengeance and added liquid oxygen drops to the three litres of water I began to consume daily. I got rid of every chemical in my house, I covered my face when putting petrol into the car, I stopped using my mobile phone. I did everything I could to avoid contact with anything thought vaguely cancer inducing.

2000
Through this mix of traditional and complementary medicine, pig headed discipline, determination and belief on my part I beat Hodgkins Disease. On 5th January 2000 I was given the all clear eight months after the weekend away when I carried my daughter on my back.

2001
Supported by people like Julian Richer, and Charles Dunstone, I formed The Paul Stalker Effect with a mission to motivate people - whether it's to do with beating a life threatening illness; whether it's to become physically stronger; whether it's to find the best partner; whether it's to run the most successful business or to fulfil some other dream - I believe it is all possible with the right combination of tools.

How many people sit down and plan their life like they plan building a house, a wedding, or a party? Have you? I doubt it. But it should be a matter of course. Would you build a house without the right team of people to help, the architect, the builder, the plumber and electrician each with the right set of tools? Of course not.
And that is what I do - equip friends and colleagues with the right set of tools to build the best life possible.

"The Paul Stalker Effect was launched in 2001 by CEO Paul 'Stalkie' Stalker. It prides itself on pioneering its own breed of ideas and unique delivery of solutions designed to make real impact on a company's bottom line. In that time it successfully delivered programmes and events for organisations ranging from Richer Sounds, The Carphone Warehouse, B&Q, Topps Tiles, Countrywide Farmers and Zara to Pizza Express, Greene King and GNER."

2009
Rebrand and Relaunch to become 'The Extra Mile Partnership'
22nd May - The company becomes The Extra Mile Partnership at an exclusive breakfast launch event hosted by long-term supporters Carphone Warehouse CEO Charles Dunstone and Northern Rock HR Director Richard Smelt. The showcase offers some exclusive insights into The Extra Mile Partnership; its key people, plans and its proprietary methodology and software system EMMA.

Developed under the Project Name 'EMMA': The Extra Mile Measurement Application is a tailor-made solution to facilitate the delivery and Real Time Measurement of employee engagement and development programmes. It has been designed to show the 'hard' numeric consequences of colleague engagement and provide a sound ongoing platform for the creation of initiatives to improve personal performance, customer service and profitability.

The name change reflects not only the expansion of the talent and professional expertise it now offers its clients but also the single-minded benefit it aims to deliver - to get employees to go the Extra Mile.

Paul Stalker, CEO The Extra Mile Partnership:

'I firmly believe that the sustainability and impact of our process and indeed the credibility of our industry lies in our collective ability to measure, report, and solve, throughout the entire hierarchy of an organization. EMMA gives us, and the clients we work in partnership with, the ability to do this.

It is about giving customer focused businesses a tangible commercial edge in a challenging economic climate and generating a return from their number one asset - their people.'