Paul-Arthur Patarin

The work speaks from inside the role.

Paul-Arthur Patarin

I coach founders, executives and atypical leaders on power and decision-making. I am neurodivergent myself. I founded Patarin Co, my coaching and consulting company, in 2022. I completed the INSEAD coaching certificate in 2023.

My starting point is an observation: most leaders I work with are high performers and draw their power from a system under permanent tension. That mode of functioning does not last. Its cost is rarely named clearly.

My approach treats inner work and political work together. How you function inside and how you exercise power are two faces of the same subject. Working on one without the other leaves the problem aside.

Intellectual rigour in service of discernment. To read more accurately, faster, under pressure. The training (ENS, EHESS, INSEAD) serves that.
Speaking from inside the role. Having created, arbitrated, held the course. The work speaks from lived experience.
AI as structural transformation. AI changes what it means to think, decide and lead. I build with it every day, and it deserves the same rigour as the other subjects.

Education

École normale supérieure

Cognitive science · 2007-2011

EHESS

MSc Cognitive Science · 2008-2011

Université Paris I Sorbonne

BA Philosophy, BSc Logic · 2005-2008

INSEAD

Coaching Certificate · 2023

IMM

MBA Media, Business & Technology · 2013-2014

Background

Patarin Co

Founder, coaching and consulting · 2022 → present

Neuroagency

Founder, company being formed · 2026 → present

ARKOS (sold to Kea & Partners)

Senior Partner · Board Member · 2011-2024

Seize TV

Co-founder & CEO · 2017-2019

Meludia

Founder & Managing Director · 2012-2015

AdQuantic (acquired by Criteo)

Founding team · Board Member · 2011-2012

Hypios

Co-founder & COO · 2010-2011

INSEAD

Research Intern, cognitive neuroscience · 2009-2011

Obelos

Public-interest project, association being formed · 2026 → present

Who this is for

The people I work with.

Tech executives

Executives and founders in technology environments. Fast, demanding. They need support that can speak strategy, power and transformation without condescension.

Atypical leaders

Neurodivergent people or people with highly uneven cognitive profiles, whose functioning steps outside standard scripts.

Senior executives

Already exposed, already responsible, often already coached. They need a higher level of depth, rigour and precision.

Coaches

Professionals who support others and want support themselves. Working on their own relationship to power, intensity and authority, from inside the practitioner role.

Get in touch

Let's talk about your situation.

A direct first conversation, no questionnaire, about what you are going through.

Write for a first conversation → 30 to 45 minutes, no commitment