Atlanta AI Week

Paul is a seasoned executive leader with a proven track record of driving transformative business outcomes through strategy and Design Thinking. With over two decades of “tra-digital” experience in design, product development, and a strong entrepreneurial mindset focused on outcomes over outputs, Paul has a deep understanding of how to build empowered teams, leverage human-centered principles, and deliver the business value of design.His diverse experience spans Fortune 500 companies, gritty startups, and most recently a focus on Gen Z insights, earning him recognition from industry leaders, media outlets, and top organizations like Forrester and L2 Gartner. Paul’s work has been featured on national TV, Apple’s WWDC keynotes, Super Bowl 58, and major social media campaigns. Known for his innovative approach, Paul is a sought-after advisor, mentor, and speaker, regularly featured on industry podcasts where he brings depth and authenticity to discussions on design, leadership, team culture and innovation.Paul is the founder of KICK Consultancy, a boutique design management consulting firm offering a range of solutions including strategy, workshops, AI upskilling, leadership training, fractional leadership, team optimization, squad enablement, facilitation, roadmapping, Gen Z trends and insights, operations, tailored coaching, corporate offsites, talks and keynotes.With a hyper-focus on human-centered principles, culture, people, collective creativity, collaboration, and authenticity, our value proposition is how to enable companies to liberate teams, work together better as a whole, improve processes and maximize business performance.