David Paul is a Corporate Consultant & Facilitator, Senior Executive Coach, and Curriculum Designer with over 40 years of experience in healthcare, physician leadership, and professional education sectors. He is a specialist in healing/preventing burnout, transformational leadership, teaching the skills to build emotional intelligence, and facilitating cultural transformation. He has extensive experience resolving conflict and building effective partnerships with physicians, healthcare systems, executives, and first responders. David has led innovation in pre-hospital care, developed and led multi-hospital cooperative ventures, and system-wide cultural transformations. He has coached individuals and groups from a wide variety of industries, including physicians, healthcare executives, police officers, firefighters, paramedics, labor union employees, and manufacturing executives. He is a published author of professional journals and popular magazine articles.

He is the co-founder and pro-bono CEO of The Freedom to Choose Project, an award-winning non-profit offering leading-edge rehabilitation work in prisons for nearly 20 years. Results under his direction included culture shifts within incarcerated communities from violence and inter-gang conflict to peaceful cooperation and mutual respect.

David’s accomplishments include membership in the AOA medical honor society, being president of his state professional society (Illinois chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians), receiving a Service to Humanity Award, Local Hero Award, and other awards for his non-profit service work in prisons.

David has a bachelor’s degree in science from Pennsylvania State University, an MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, an MA in Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and a PhD in Psychology from Saybrook University. David currently serves as a faculty in the Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University and was a clinical professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

David lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife and business partner, Bonnie. He is an avid gardener and cook and delights in shopping in the garden for dinner fixings. David is known among friends for his delicious homemade whole-grain sourdough bread.