Bob Paull, Ph.D.
Coach
Bob is a professional coach, professor, and public speaker. He coaches educators and academics to develop the possibilities they envision for their personal and professional lives. Bob helps them determine and develop the practices that maximize their personal potential: create joy, abundance, gratitude, leadership, service, and produce uncommon results.
Since beginning his career in education as a camp counselor at age 12, Bob has studied learning, leadership, and explored what is possible for human beings. Early in his career, he was a camp program director, teacher, head counselor, school administrator, and Major in the Marine Corp Reserves.
While working with inner city children in Los Angeles, Bob saw the need for a curriculum to aid young people in recognizing that they can achieve their dreams and that would assist them in building the skills and attitudes that make realizing dreams possible. He joined the Thomas Jefferson Research Center and co-created a middle school homeroom curriculum entitled “How to be Successful in 10 Minutes a Day.” Later, Bob served as president of the Research Center. While he was at the Center, “How to be Successful in 10 Minutes a Day” reached 50,000 students.
A professor at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology for over fifteen years, Bob was the founding Director of the Educational Leadership Academy and the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy Doctoral program. He also directed the Teacher Education Program. Most recently, he led the Education Division as the Associate Dean responsible for the Division and its three masters and four doctoral programs. Bob stepped aside from his leadership post as Associate Dean in the fall of 2004 to devote time to speaking, writing, and coaching for leadership.
Bob earned his BA from Dickinson College, a M.A. from Duke University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Besides his formal education and professional experiences, he has studied leadership, possibility, presence, and spiritual practices with many world-class teachers.
Bob lives in an historical district in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Marilyn. She is the principal of a Title I Award Winning School in Garden Grove Unified School District, 2004 national winner of the Eli Broad Foundation Award for the urban school district most effective in closing the achievement gap.
The Paulls have five adult children and two grandchildren. They enjoy spending leisure time in the Eastern Sierra’s, hiking and skiing.