Paul Signorelli

Helping you explore opportunities, Paul is a creative, inquisitive, results-driven writer who designs and facilitates learning opportunities, and facilitates transformative conversations designed to produce positive, measurable change. He brings extensive management experience in arts organizations, libraries (including nearly 15 years as Director, Volunteer Services and Staff Training for the San Francisco Public Library system), and other educational settings to all that he does, and draws upon the experience he gained in earning an M.A. in Arts Administration (Golden Gate University), an MLIS (University of North Texas), and a B.A in Political Science (UCLA).

Author of Change the World Using Social Media and co-author of Workplace Learning & Leadership: A Handbook for Library and Nonprofit Trainers (free PDF available), he works with clients to determine what they need to do to change their world; creates highly-interactive sessions to address the challenges they face; and helps foster sustainable onsite and online communities.

Paul, as a trainer-consultant, currently serves as Library Advocacy Training Project Manager for the California Library Association; facilitator for onsite and online employee assistance program sessions; cohost of the San Jose State University School of Information monthly “Information Gone Wild” podcast; Co-director, Professional Development on the UCLA Daily Bruin Alumni Network Board of Directors (overseeing mentoring and workshops for students at the university newspaper); Director of Social Media for the ATD South Florida Chapter; and a presenter/facilitator for a variety of lifelong-learning projects.

Writer

Paul, in addition to writing Change the World Using Social Media and co-writing Workplace Learning and Leadership, has had work included in several anthologies; writes for print and online publications; and blogs extensively in addition to writing training material. New: paperback edition of Change the World Using Social Media released spring 2023.)

Keynote Speaker

Contact Paul for highly-interactive keynote presentations designed to foster positive change in response to the challenges your organization wants to effectively address.

Trainer/Facilitator

Talk with Paul for help in designing and facilitating creative, engaging, highly-interactive learning opportunities for onsite, online, and hybrid learning situations. Recent examples of his work include advocacy sessions through the California Library Association and employee-assistance workshops (e.g., conflict resolution, presentation skills, and fostering mindfulness) delivered through Claremont EAP.

"Civility, Pandemics, and Public Health: (Pt. 1 of 2): Wendy Parmet on "Constituional Contagion"

“It would be easy to dismiss civility as an academic exercise, or as something nice to have rather than essential to have…if it weren’t for the fact that our inability to engage in civil public discourse is actually killing us, as we’ve seen with COVID over the past few years and, over the past few days, with the measles outbreak in Texas. One part of the overall tragedy, of course, is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

“Reading and reflecting upon Northeast University law professor Wendy Parmet‘s ‘Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health’—a first-rate, well-researched and documented, blunt review of how the courts contributed to a COVID-based death rate that could have been much lower—provides us with an opportunity to ask ourselves a basic question: what might have happened if we had listened to each other and responded in more civil rather than partisan ways in the early months of the pandemic? And part of the answer is that we might not have pursued legal challenges that produced the court-produced reductions in public health and other social protections that Parmet so effectively documents…”

For recommendations of first-rate books to help you address your training-teaching-learning challenges, please visit Paul’s Goodreads list here and short reviews of some of the best books he has read and used.