Paul Cox

Paul is Managing Director and his work includes:

  • Organisational redesign
  • Stakeholder and community engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Leadership team development
  • Learning and development
  • Mergers and alliances
  • Partnership development

Skill Set

  • Principles and practices for engagement of people in change
  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Organisational and process design
  • Large scale meeting dynamics and design delivery of interactive sessions with up to 2000 people
  • Facilitation of large and small groups
  • Quality and learning organisations theory and practice
  • All aspects of leadership development and team Development
  • Coaching for personal change and development
  • Graphic facilitation
  • Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Appreciative Inquiry

Relevant experience includes:

Paul held a variety of line management posts in the West Midlands Employment Service during a 19 year career. From 1990 he was a member of a regional team of internal consultants, and specialised in the development of a Deming based transformation programme, supporting senior managers and staff in performance and personal transformation.

Since leaving the Employment Service and co-founding VISTA Consulting Team in 1995, Paul has worked with a wide range of clients in the public, private sectors and communities.

Paul’s’ main area of expertise is large and small highly interactive events that engage and empower people as they develop and take responsibility for making a difference in their lives and livelihood. He works with a variety of large group engagement processes for organisational and personal change and development, strategy development, organisational redesign as well as process redesign and improvement.

He is equally at home with one to one coaching work, small or large group (from 3 to 2000 people) facilitation looking at complex, multi-stakeholder issues and effective team working.

As part of the international community developing the field of large-scale interventions, Paul has delivered professional skills and learning sessions in Europe, South Africa and America. He is co-author of "Meetings by Design" – how to design productive and effective meetings.