Paul Childs

Paul has served as a Vistage Chair and a Vistage Speaker for five years. Paul is the Managing Director of Fusion, a firm that brings together consulting and advertising. Paul has been serving as a Vistage Chair and a Speaker for the last five years.

He has spent 5 years with Vistage and 4 years with his investment banking/consulting firm in nearly 4,000 hours of one to one coaching with business executives, entrepreneurs and key executives.

Paul Childs is serial entrepreneur at heart. He has founded or co-founded three successful companies, and served as their CEO.

Paul was formerly the founder and managing partner of Summit Corporate Partners, a regional investment bank.

He served as an executive coach under Marshall Goldsmith's A4SL organization. He worked as VP of Development for the Adizes Institute under Dr. Ichak Adizes and has taught the Adizes methodology.

He is an NLP practitioner (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and is certified in Level I Spiral Dynamics (the study of the codes of cultures and communities). He is certified in DISC, VALUES, TRIMETRIX analysis and has delivered over 4,500 Behavior/Management Style Assessments.

He spent several years as a trainer and coach for Anthony Robbins. He was a Seminar leader for the Landmark Forum.

His Business Mastery workshops on have been delivered around the world in Los Angeles, London, Mexico and even Slovenia.

Along the way Paul honed his Advertising and Marketing skills on for over 200 TV commercials, and a dozen feature films serving as Agency Producer, Line Producer and Assistant Director, including four award-winning spots for Levis, Volkswagen, Nike and Blue Cross.

His consulting clients have included the US Navy, Applied Materials, Corbis (Bill Gates), AT&T, and Digital Equipment Corporation and many Vistage members.

Paul is the co-author of "Leading Organizations from the Inside Out". He is dreaming of making enough time to complete his new book, book "The Water in Which We Swim"

He received his bachelor's degree in business management from Antioch University.

In his spare time he does triathlons.