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 advocacy-training sessions; President of the Board for the UCLA Daily Bruin Alumni Network (July 1, 2026-June 30, 2027); 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.
"On Nurturing and Celebrating Social Connections in Times of Solitude"
“It did not matter that the note I received from my doctor recently was probably a note routinely sent to all of her patients (or even to all the patients by all the doctors within the Kaiser-Permanente healthcare system). What mattered was that it was the right note, at the right time, to trigger a flood of lovely, positive thoughts and reflections every bit as worth exploring as the thoughts triggered for the narrator of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu when he dips a madeleine into a cup of tea.
My version of that madeleine came as I was skimming that note from the doctor, which included a list of six steps to take “to feel your best and be your healthiest”—the fifth of them suggesting ways to strengthen social connection: “Volunteer. Connect with Friends. Join a community or interest group of like-minded people. Go to a local sports event, music performance, lecture, or art display. Call someone you love every week.”
That brief passage made me stop to reflect on the numerous routine, richly rewarding, life-affirming connections I am lucky enough to have with the numerous people in my life and the various activities that bring us together…“
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.
