Make leadership practical.

Seminars, workshops, and training that help leaders understand the situation, make better choices, and improve results.

Be the Leader Associates

Experience from organizations and classrooms.

Paul designed and delivered management, leadership, and team-building programs for organizations including UMass Medical School, Mercy Health Systems, Kuwait Oil Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Corporation, and United Technologies.

He has served as a speaker and trainer at programs in Brussels, Barcelona, Kuwait, and the USA. At Springfield Technical Community College, he organized and coordinated a one-day leadership conference for five years.

Program areas

Topics connected to real management work.

Programs can focus on one leadership challenge or connect several areas around the needs of a team or organization.

Adaptive leadership

Diagnose the environment, task, and people; choose a useful response; adjust as conditions change.

Organizational alignment

Connect strategy with values, structure, systems, and the people responsible for execution.

Implementing change

Clarify the change, build capability and commitment, and support consistent action.

Performance management

Set clear expectations, observe performance, give feedback, and address gaps.

Leadership fundamentals

Build practical skills in communication, decision-making, delegation, and developing people.

Team development

Help teams improve clarity, accountability, collaboration, and follow-through.

A practitioner’s perspective

Twenty years inside a 20,000-person organization.

At Hamilton Standard, Paul served on senior leadership teams and gained hands-on experience in strategic planning, organizational change, succession planning, performance management, human resources, and leadership development.

Paul Thornton listening during an event conversation