Miguel de Cervantes, on Point of View
“Too much sanity may be madness — and the maddest of all is to see life as it is, not as it should be.”

Niccolo Machiavelli, on Leadership
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things”

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Paul worked for U. S. Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart after graduating from University of Virginia and before assisting with events and media for the Dalai Lama of Tibet, when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Paul today works for individual, corporate, and nonprofit clients as a strategist, advocate, and project manager.

In 1990, Paul successfully facilitated nine months of multi-party negotiations — among corporate, governmental, and nonprofit stakeholders and litigants in Orange County, California — to resolve a longstanding dispute concerning undeveloped open space with significant natural resources. He then directed a related, successful bond campaign clearing the way for the second largest urban wilderness park in the U. S., with 22,000 contiguous acres.

For 15 years, Paul worked closely with Henry Segerstrom and the family ownership of South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California on business, public affairs, and philanthropy. The Plaza generates $2 billion a year in sales. Paul negotiated and obtained approvals of Development Agreements to repurpose 180 acres and expand Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a new theater, concert hall, public plaza, and art museum.

Paul has served on US-EU observation and assistance missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, and, after the Arab Spring, in Egypt. Paul was on the Fairfax County, Virginia School Board, and served two terms as mayor of Laguna Beach, California. He has an abiding interest in the game of Go, which he teaches and plays as an amateur.

 

 

*Photo taken 1/26/23 during live radio broadcast at KX-FM studio, Laguna Beach, CA