Paul Harrell Email & Phone Number

Bend, Oregon

• Help superintendents, heads of schools, and principals plan, execute, and sustain turnarounds at K-12 organizations.• Develop functional and executable strategic plans.• Identify, mitigate, and eliminate cultural challenges by meeting with key constituents in extended listening tours, compiling concerns and aspirations, and re-engaging talent around shared visions.• Enhance administrative, faculty, and staff competencies by identifying essential academic and management capabilities, creating talent development programs, and delivering professional development content via on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid channels.• Boost institutional brand equity by revisiting brand positioning, refining brand identities, and delivering on brand promises.• Develop and fine-tune advancement programs that lead to significant revenue streams.• Engage external constituents, empower team members, and improve financial performance management systems to enhance institutional revenues, operating efficiencies, and profit margins.• Build a team of social media and website experts to assist clients with marketing needs.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

• Provided oversight of more than 30 employees preparing to enter a new $100 million building fall of 2025.• Successfully healed school culture for both staff and parents.• Finished fiscal year under budget.• Secured 12 potential future donors.• Revamped marketing and social media strategies.

Bend, Oregon

• Initiated a plan to revitalize and re-establish a school that had encountered difficulty.• Reorganized administrative structure to align with school needs and values.• Created a five-year strategic plan, resulting in NWAIS membership.• Led collaborative team to clarify mission, vision, and values.• Reconstructed mathematics and Spanish programs to a tiered approach to address all student abilities. • Recertified the Middle Years International Baccalaureate Programme and created a certification process for the Primary Years International Baccalaureate Programme.• Provided oversight for leadership, budget, academic programs, and student behavioral programs.

Vacaville, California

• Led institution in ten years to a position of significant growth and sustainability. • Restructured the school culture from a top-down to a bottom-up orientation. • Developed a strong and loyal administrative team. • Demonstrated dedicated personal advocacy for the implementation of positive psychology into the school culture and curriculum.• Revitalized the academic curriculum, positioning the institution as the top Northern California college-prep school with 22 AP courses for high school.• Refocused the school’s marketing program and created a culture that led to a record-high retention rate of over 95 percent for staff and students.

Grosse Pointe, Mi

• Directed advancement operations and events for annual fund, capital campaign, admissions, advertising, marketing, and retention.• Led a $1M annual auction and an annual fund of $350,000 with 86% parent involvement.• Created and completed a $7M capital campaign to renovate school buildings.• Managed the school's admissions process and personnel. • Reworked the marketing and branding program to address retention and admission issues.• Taught Advanced Algebra.

Louisville, Ky

• Directed human resources function for 1,500 employees and 126 stores. • Managed HR staff of 15 employees.• Responsible for hiring, discipline, firing, and recruitment. • Oversaw payroll, bonus programs, worker’s compensation, benefits, training, and safety.

M.Ed., Secondary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc