Leadership Coach…Peacemaker…Team Facilitator…Listener…Lifelong Student….Entrepreneur
Paul Werder is the author of three books, Building Unity, Mastering Effectiveness, and Business With Heart: A Better Way to Go to Work. He founded LionHeart Consulting Inc. in 1983, and has improved the culture and/or financial performance of numerous businesses and non-profit organizations such as Leatherman Tool Group, Powell’s Books, National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Rejuvenation, Lions VisionGift and Portco Packaging.
His favorite assignments involve organizational culture improvement efforts that demonstrate the link between profitability and leaders who embrace a positive experience of work for everyone built upon mutual respect and accountability . Paul can help you replace conflict and animosity with the trusting collaborative relationships that are necessary for your organization’s strategic and operational success.
Paul’s gift is to help you bring your purpose, vision, and shared values to life through well-defined, intentional practices that create an engaged, inspired, and high performing workforce. His signature yearlong leadership program has provided thousands of people with life-changing transformation.
Appointed a Distinguished Fellow by The Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western Reserve University in 2011, Paul was part of a research team that delivered on designing “the best means of integrating spirituality into their curriculum as an essential componant of business becoming an agent of global benefit…by making reflective practices highly accessible for business people everywhere.” The Fellows team of 9 independent thought leaders collaboratively authored Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (Stanford Press) as a genuine demonstration of how “a powerful team can accomplish a great result that could not have occurred with any single person missing.”
Paul received an MSW from the University of Washington in 1976 where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. Paul currently teaches spiritual leadership and mentors students with their service projects at the University of Sufism where he began studying in 1997.
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