Paul David Walker Bio:

Paul is a CEO Coach and one of the early innovators of leadership consulting and coaching at the executive level. He has been advising the leaders of Fortune 500 and midsized companies for over twenty-five years. With this experience he brings a unique perspective that can be invaluable to leaders. Paul has advised leaders through three downturns and recoveries in the economy. He has lead turnarounds, acquisition integration, rapid growth, culture change and strategic projects to align strategy, structure and culture. He has coached and mentored leaders in the art of leadership, personal balance, philosophical understandings that have helped his clients manifest innovative ideas and is known to be someone who sees and draws out the genius in leaders.

While advising and coaching Fortune 500 companies, he was one of the leaders of a groundbreaking entrepreneurial company that established innovative leadership consulting practices. These practices provided the foundation for much of the leadership consulting that exists today. Still on the leading edge of business consulting, he integrates new approaches from science, psychology and philosophy while bringing concrete business acumen.

He will involve you in an explorative dialogue that will expand your understanding of how to extend present reality into a successful future. Your understanding of leadership, yourself and your business will take a quantum leap.

Paul is a master storyteller using humor and insight to stimulate learning from the day-to-day experience of leading a business. He asks his clients to tell and analyze their greatest success stories to create a "line of sight" to their genius. Leadership teams, while laughing and creating self-knowledge, bond together to win.

Clients and Approach

Paul Walker has coached the CEOs and senior teams of the following companies through this unique process which improved performance dramatically: New York Life, Mutual of Omaha, Chase GIS, Finance One, Home Savings of America, TBG Financial, Pacific Mutual, MIC Reinsurance, Rockwell International, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed Technologies, Teradata, Dolly Inc., ELC, Learning Curve Toys, Harrods, Anne Klein, Union Pacific, Star-Kist Foods, Nebraska Power, IndX Software, Grafico Inc., The City of Long Beach, The Queen Mary, ResMAE, SIGMAnet, Sylmark, Culver Studios, Disney and many other companies.

He works with selected clients in an advanced manner in the following areas:

• CEO Coaching: As the CEO's trusted advisor, he provides consulting and coaching for the most difficult problems most leaders normally face alone
• Strategy Implementation: He has a unique ability to help a leader and their team find roadmaps to success that are often hidden from view
• Executive Team Development: Paul helps the team to understand each other's genius and then helps synchronize each individual's genius into "team wisdom" that is highly competitive
• Performance Improvement: Specializing in leading teams from "good to great" he helps teams find ways to continuously expand insight into their businesses and turn that insight in business results.

Client Comments:

"Because of your expertise we achieved objectives in an extremely timely fashion"
-Don Ross, Chairman and CEO, New York Life

"We took an enormous leap forward, making our words about a special company become a reality"
-Ken Simonds, CEO, Teradata

"We have come together as a team so that all energies are focused on our vision and mission"
-John Lee, President, ELC

"He is direct, insightful and not afraid to get in my face… key to my selection as CIO"
-Raouf Halim, CEO, MindSpeed Technologies

"He possesses a unique combination of business, teambuilding and executive development skills. I am sure many other CEOs, as I have, will benefit from his work"
-Dwight Decker, Chairman and CEO, Conexant Systems Inc.

Participant Quotes:

Poetry, Philosophy and Business Leadership

• Excellent, bold, insightful, practical
• Excellent blend of awareness and practical skills
• Excellent, inspiring, thought provoking
• Terrific - good interaction
• Great job - captivating speaker
• Excellent speaker and content
• Held my attention and got some great ideas
• Very good - excellent speaker and valuable interaction
• One of the best! I lived the interactive exercise
• Simple, clean, concise, helpful
• Great material and illustrative stories
• Helped me to understand/accept something about myself - insightful
• Very good - loved role-playing exercises
• Great as usual
• Practical, relevant
• Excellent

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