Paul A. Perez is an executive and leadership coach, organizational trainer, consultant, and cultural transformation expert with over 30 years’ experience identifying, developing and growing leaders for progressively increasing responsibility and success in management and executive roles across a diverse spectrum of industry verticals. Paul also has over two decades experience in organizational culture workshop and seminar facilitation and keynote speaking. He leverages deep understanding of neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology to create unbreakable mindsets in individuals and organizations facing the daunting daily challenges of living and operating in a VUCA world.

As a retired executive Naval Officer, team-building, leadership and talent development and driving the strategic and tactical facets of mission are second nature to Paul. Paul’s experience includes roles as a combat Naval Flight Officer, Navy Human Resources Officer, Wellness coach, and management in marketing and operations in a multistate healthcare system.

Paul’s integrated coaching, consulting and facilitation practice includes C-suite to junior executives in a wide range of organizations from startup to multibillion-dollar enterprises, including healthcare (clinical and administrative), professional services, insurance and financial services, shipping and logistics, manufacturing, tech and telecommunications sectors, nonprofit and military.

Paul believes in delving to the root of the presenting issue and discerning the deep-seated patterns and beliefs working against leaders and organizations being the daily best versions of themselves. As such, he uses world-class neuroscience and cultural norming instruments to sleuth them out and works with leaders through the natural resistance they will encounter when endeavoring to make meaningful change that sticks.
Paul’s facilitation style and content brings cutting-edge brain science, stories and humor, reflective journaling and experiential individual and team exercises designed to plumb the depths of the seat of behavior, the subconscious mind, and explicate patterns and blind spots to create breakthrough, all in a safe, judgement-free environment. Paul has found workshops are often best paired with targeted assessments which give actionable data, encouraging even deeper learning and ownership by workshop attendees.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• B.S. Microbiology, University of Notre Dame with minor in Naval Science (NROTC)
• M.S. in Organizational Behavior and Executive Coaching, University of Texas at Dallas
• Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
• Certified Physician Development Coach, Physician Coaching Institute
• Wellness Coaching and Wellness Programming (Wellcoaches, The Chapman Institute)
• Adjunct Faculty and Executive Coach, The Center for Creative Leadership
• Leader Coach & Senior Consultant, Right Management (U.S. subsidiary of The Manpower Group)
• Career and Leadership Coach, Notre Dame Alumni Association
• Board Chair, Operation Military Family
• Coauthored, “Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation in Health Promotion and Wellness,” The Art of Health Promotion, January/February 2012
• Certified practitioner full suite of Human Synergistics culture and leader assessments (Organizational Culture and Organizational Effectiveness Inventories, Lifestyles Inventory Item Level, Feedback & Acumen Leadership Workstyles, Management and Leadership Impact 360 instruments), EQ-Profile Emotional Intelligence Assessment, EQ-i 2.0, EQ-360, suite of CCL 360 instruments, WorkPlace Big 5, Change Style Indicator, Influence Style Indicator, Key Change Institute Certification in Applied Neuroscience: The Neuroscience of Difficult Change assessment.
• Certified Trauma-Informed Consultant & Coach, Mobius Executive Leadership/Academy of Inner Sciences
• Certified Systems Thinking Coach, Systems Thinking Standards Institute, Cornell University
• Systemic Team Coaching Certification, Renewal Associates, United Kingdom