Matthew Payne Consulting
Business & Life Coaching · Scottsdale, Arizona
Optimal Performance Coaching

Coaching for your business and the life it funds

Private, one on one, every week. We work the four things that actually move performance: psychology, strategy, habits, and energy. Applied to your goals, your obstacles, your season, not theory from a stage.

Matthew Payne

I'm Matt. Twenty years of this work, and I still believe almost anything can change faster than people think.

Scottsdale, Arizona · Working with people across the country

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What this actually is

The work is private, personal, and one on one. Because breakthroughs are.

Here is what twenty years of doing this has only made me believe more: almost everybody is sitting on far more capability than they are using. Not a little more. A lot more. And the gap between where somebody is and where they could be is hardly ever talent. It is clarity, sequence, habits, and what a person quietly believes about themselves.

So that is the work. This is personalized professional coaching for your business and your life. Together, every week, we work the levers that actually move performance. Not a course you watch. A standing conversation where somebody is in your corner, paying attention, and holding the line with you.

Some of the deepest work happens beneath the business: the internal conflicts and strongholds that quietly cap what a person will let themselves do. That is where two decades of performance psychology earn their keep. The source of real greatness is already in you. The work is tapping it, continuously.

And the business and the life are not two subjects. A tremendous part of your life is your business. When one of them is off, you feel it in the other one by Thursday.

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The four levers

Psychology, strategy, habits, and energy. These four decide almost everything downstream. Some weeks the work is the plan. Some weeks it is the thing underneath the plan. We go where the leverage is that week.

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Psychology

How you think, what you believe, and what you tell yourself under pressure. We recondition the inner game until confidence and clarity are your resting state, not your peak state.

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Strategy

The order and sequence of the right moves. We think critically about your goals and build the precise plan that gets you there, on time and on purpose.

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Habits

Your routines decide your direction. We consciously install and reinforce the daily patterns that compound into new levels of performance and joy.

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Energy

Performance runs on physiology. We build the vitality, focus, and recovery that let you show up at full strength, in the boardroom and at home.

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How the work runs

Five steps, worked in order and then revisited for as long as we are together. This is the same progression I taught in live rooms for twenty years, except here it is pointed at one person: you.

  1. Crystallize your goals and values

    Clarity coupled with consistent focus is power. When you know what you want most and why, laid out in a measurable, visual plan, follow-through becomes automatic.

  2. Create the strategic plan

    The precise order, logic, and sequence of objectives that must land on time to accomplish your personal and professional goals.

  3. Install the daily habits and routines

    What you repeatedly focus on, believe, and do determines your destination. We install and reinforce the routines that compound.

  4. Resolve the internal conflicts keeping you stuck

    Procrastination is rarely laziness. It is conflict. We align your conscious goals with your unconscious commitments so you move forward congruently.

  5. Implement the strategies that change results

    Your approach is the most crucial variable. Best practice strategy, applied hand in hand, every single week.

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Who I work with

  • Financial Advisors
  • Fund Managers & GPs
  • Estate & Business Attorneys
  • Founders
  • Business Owners
  • Executives
  • Anyone Ready To Change Something

Most of the people I coach are professionals, and plenty of them have titles that look impressive from the outside. What they have in common is not the industry. It is that they are capable, they know there is another level, and they would rather not go after it alone.

Some come in with a business problem and we end up spending real time on the life around it. Some come in the other way. Both are fine. I have worked with people on growing a practice, on getting fit, on quitting something that had a grip on them, on getting out from under anxiety that had been running the show for years. The tools do not change much. The courage does.

I am based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I work with people here in the Phoenix valley and all over the country. Sessions are private, by video or phone, and in person locally when that makes sense.

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In their words

By implementing Matt’s approaches and strategies, I’ve landed several 100-million-dollar accounts!
Todd Barden Todd BardenMorgan Stanley
Within the 1st 6 weeks of working with Matt, I’ve brought in over 2 million in new assets.
Brian Parker Brian ParkerBrian Parker Investments
Matt’s knowledge and strategies are game-changing! I’m now consistently bringing in high net worth clients.
Scott Rulon Scott RulonRulon Financial
Start Here, No Charge

Your mind came without a manual. Until now.

The Owner's Manual to the Mind is my complete personal development program, recorded live and remastered. The unconscious mind, mentality, overcoming procrastination, high performance living, and the habits that shape everything downstream. It is the inner game I teach privately, and Section One is yours free.

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Listen To Section One
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Common questions

What kind of coaching do you do?

Business and life coaching, private and one on one. Most of the people I work with are professionals: financial advisors, fund managers, attorneys, founders, business owners. We work on performance in the business and on the life the business is supposed to be funding. Those two are not separate things, and treating them like they are is usually what has somebody stuck.

Are you based in Scottsdale?

Yes. I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona. I work with people here in the Phoenix valley and with people all over the country. Sessions are private, by video or phone, and in person locally when that makes sense.

How does the coaching actually work?

We meet every week. Each session is built around your goals, your obstacles, and the season you're in right now. You leave with something specific to do, and we hold the line on it together. It isn't theory from a stage. It's applied, week after week, until the results change.

What do we actually work on?

Four levers: psychology, strategy, habits, and energy. Those four decide almost everything downstream. Some weeks the work is the plan. Some weeks it's the internal conflict quietly capping what you'll let yourself do. We go where the leverage is that week.

How long before something actually changes?

Usually faster than people expect. Clarity shows up in the first couple of sessions, mostly because very few people have ever written down what they want in a measurable, visual way. The deeper work, the habits and the beliefs underneath them, takes a few months of consistent effort. That part is worth the wait, and you feel it building the whole time.

Do you work with people outside of finance?

Yes. This came out of twenty years of live trainings with people from just about every background, and the principles don't care what industry you're in. If you want to change something and you're willing to do the work, we'll get along fine.

Is there a way to sample how you think before we talk?

Yes. The Owner's Manual to the Mind is my complete personal development program, recorded live and remastered: six sections, ten volumes, 95 tracks. Section One is free when you opt in. Start there and see whether the way I think is the way you want to be coached.

Let's Talk

Tell me what you're working on

If any of this sounds like where you are right now, send me a note and tell me what you're after. Not a form letter, just a couple of lines about what you want to change. I read these myself and I answer them myself.

Worst case, you get a straight answer from somebody who has seen the pattern before. Best case, we go to work.

Your note comes straight to me. No list, no sequence, no sales team.