Cary Paul Bio

Cary Paul, a Partner at The McKelvey Group, has over eighteen years of experience in professional change management, facilitation, training, and process improvement. He is highly passionate about creating and delivering great experiences for the people, teams and organizations he serves.

Cary is well known as an expert in creating and delivering facilitated sessions that are energetic, innovative and experiential. He has worked with teams, large groups, and executives, all of varying educational levels, technical backgrounds, industries, and disciplines. He facilitates in small intimate settings, in large conference facilities, via conference calls and on-line meetings, and everything in between. He has facilitated sessions focused on product development, brainstorming and work review, software development, team building, and those where critical business decisions depended on the consensus-building ability of Cary as the facilitator.

He has been developing and delivering training throughout his career. Courses he has developed include: Basic and Advanced Facilitation, Facilitation for Leaders and Managers, Conflict Management, Leadership in the Moment (Using Improv Comedy Techniques and Skills in Professional Life), Consulting for Business Managers, and Project Management for Federal Contractors. In addition to delivering most of those courses, Cary has also led previously developed training in convenience store back-office systems, management skills, and communications.

Cary has over eighteen years of change management and process improvement experience. Practical experience in change management includes extensive training, communication, and interpersonal interaction with executives, managers, and teams as they experience new processes and technologies in the workplace. During those engagements, he manages the entire effort and supporting teams – from defining client problems and identifying potential opportunities, to leading small and large-scale facilitation efforts, to documenting results and implementing action plans. Cary has worked with dozens of process improvement teams to define, re-frame, and execute process changes related to strategic planning, training, information technology, knowledge management, performance measurement, policy development, and action execution.

Cary has an MBA (Organizational Development and Information Technology, George Washington University), and a BS (Industrial Engineering, Penn State University). During his studies of organizational development in his MBA curriculum, Cary was instructed and mentored by management expert Jerry B. Harvey, author of the well-known concept - The Abilene Paradox. During summer breaks in college, Cary worked as Davy Crockett at Walt Disney World. As a performer and guest host, he had a unique opportunity to hone his entertainment and service talents.