Resilience · Disability inclusion · Work-life culture
Paul
Artale
PhD · Toastmasters Accredited Speaker
Cut from his high school team. Walked on and played defensive end anyway.
Born with what some would call a physical disability, Paul uses the story of playing college football for the University of Toronto to teach organizations how to build high performance culture, through leveraging strengths, adapting to circumstance, and creating opportunity where there was none.
Michigan
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HIT HARD
Three must have mindsets to build resilience, told through the story of walking on to a college football team.
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- Audience
- Leaders, HR and talent teams, associations, higher education, students
- Known for
- Resilience, disability inclusion, work-life balance, doing more with less
- Based in
- Detroit, Michigan
- Delivers
- Keynote, workshop, seminar
- Credential
- PhD, and a Toastmasters Accredited Speaker, a designation held by fewer than 90 people in its history
- Style
- High energy and entertaining, built on his research plus practical tools a team can use immediately
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What topics does Paul Artale speak about?
Resilience and breaking through adversity, disability inclusion in the workplace, work-life balance and burnout, and finding opportunity when you are under resourced. Underneath all four is the same subject: how organizations build high performance culture by leveraging strengths and adapting to circumstance.
Who is Paul Artale best suited to speak for?
Leaders and managers, HR and talent professionals, association conferences, higher education, and student groups. He has spoken for Google, Ford, Michigan Works, Habitat for Humanity, and chambers of commerce, as well as high school and college student conferences.
What is a Toastmasters Accredited Speaker?
It is the highest professional speaking designation Toastmasters International awards, judged on both content and delivery, and fewer than 90 people have earned it in the organization's history. Paul is one of them. For a planner, it is an independent verification that the delivery will hold a room, which is rare in a testimonial-driven industry.
What types of events does Paul Artale speak at?
Annual meetings, association conferences, corporate events, HR and professional development days, team build workshops, and student leadership conferences. He delivers keynotes, workshops, and seminars.
Does Paul Artale offer virtual presentations?
Yes, and there is evidence he holds a virtual room as well as a live one. His client at Michigan Works describes him delivering two workshops and a keynote entirely through a screen, and keeping over 500 registrants engaged, which she notes is no easy feat.
Where is Paul Artale based?
He is based in Detroit, Michigan.
What outcomes can Paul Artale's audience expect?
He states his aim as giving organizations practical tools, strategies, and processes they can implement immediately. Each program carries its own stated takeaways, from tackling imposter syndrome and building a winning mindset, through to evaluating work-life culture and building rapport with colleagues and clients with disabilities.
Is the disability program a compliance session?
No, and he is explicit about it. The program goes beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act to the personal, social, and medical realities behind disability identity. He blends his own experience of visible and invisible disability, his time as an award winning special education teacher, and current research, and he says plainly that it challenges common assumptions.
What are Paul Artale's program titles?
HIT HARD: 3 Must Have Mindsets to Build Resilience, The Spork Principle: How to Find, Take, and Create Opportunities, Increasing Organizational Performance through Disability Inclusion, and Beat Burnout with The 2-Year Old's Guide to Work-Life Balance.
Has Paul Artale written a book?
Yes. He is the author of The 2-Year Old's Guide to Work-Life Balance, which is the basis of his burnout program, and he hosts the podcast Fiercely Successful. His research focuses on the impact of work-life balance and boundary setting on employee engagement and retention.
How do I book Paul Artale?
You can reach him by phone at 913-749-2489 or through the contact form on his website. His profile is listed in the Charli Jane Speakers Directory.
Signature programs
Four programs, one argument.
That the constraints you did not choose can be worked with rather than around. Each program is available as a keynote, workshop, or seminar.
HIT HARD: 3 Must Have Mindsets to Build Resilience
What does your ultimate life look like to you, and what is standing in the way? Obstacles and adversities are part of every journey. You cannot change the adversities that occur, but you can learn to build resilience and thrive through your challenges.
Born with what some would call a physical disability, Paul uses his journey of playing college football to teach the three must have mindsets that help you smash through adversity, exceed your expectations, and live your best life. High energy, and built to leave people feeling unstoppable rather than lectured.
- Tackle imposter syndrome and other toxic thought patterns
- Apply the simple but vital three step process to create a winning mindset
- Identify and leverage your strengths to attain your goals
- Draft your success team
- Understand the one characteristic of high performance teams
Increasing Organizational Performance through Disability Inclusion
One in five Americans has a disability, more than 55 percent will have one before they retire, and the buying power of people with disabilities is a trillion dollars a year. Despite that, most organizations struggle to create environments that attract, accommodate, and retain them.
Paul goes beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act to the essential factors that create a disability inclusive environment, whether for your clients, your staff, or your patients. He blends his personal experience of visible and invisible disability, his work as an award winning special education teacher, and current research into something practical that challenges common assumptions.
- Understand disability identity formation
- Devise practices that build rapport with clients, coworkers, and patients with disabilities
- Use three strategies that let people with disabilities become your top performers
- Understand universal design principles
- Apply practical tips for having conversations about ability
- Take away meaningful methods to improve inclusion in your organization
Beat Burnout with The 2-Year Old's Guide to Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is not a myth, and it can be achieved. Creating a positive work-life culture is a matter of understanding different strategies and adapting them to your situation, through education, advocacy, and trial. Failing to build work-life friendly cultures leads to burnout, turnover, poor performance, and health issues.
As a researcher on the effect of work-life balance on organizational performance, Paul shows how to beat burnout in a fun and lighthearted way, based on his book, The 2-Year Old's Guide to Work-Life Balance.
- Understand work-life personality preference and how it meets the organizational environment
- Evaluate your work-life culture
- Engage with energy giving life choices
- Recognize the business case for work-life initiatives
- Identify current trends in work-life balance
- Create a work-life action plan
The Spork Principle: How to Find, Take, and Create Opportunities
The Spork Principle teaches you how to leverage what you have in order to get what you want. It came out of Paul's own experience managing at several universities, where he found himself understaffed, under resourced, and constantly under water. Blending that with his research, he shows how to grow and prosper regardless of circumstance, and how to find creative solutions that lift team performance.
- Identify and leverage current competitive advantages
- Maximize opportunities using the Opportunity Finder system
- Build ally building strategies into daily practice
- Apply best practices in creative problem solving
Why Paul
Google booked him. So did Ford.
A researcher's evidence, a teacher's clarity, and a comedian's timing, from a speaker whose delivery has been independently accredited.
Paul on stage.
Paul joined us for Talks at Google and gave one of the most engaging talks we've had this year. The lessons he shared regarding both his self-acceptance and the acceptance of others was not only inspiring, but very instructive. By Paul sharing his story, the microaggressions he faces, and being open and transparent to answering questions from the audience, he widened our minds and in turn made us more aware of how we can better support our customers and colleagues who have either a seen or unseen disability.
Paul's evaluation put him in the top 1% of all speakers that we have ever contracted. I have no doubt that he will impress your participants as well. You won't go wrong contracting Paul.
Paul was nothing short of phenomenal. Although he was only able to interact with the audience through a computer screen, he was engaging, funny, quick-witted and had many interactive aspects woven into his presentations. They felt touched by his story, motivated by his message, and left feeling as though the time spent watching Paul was beneficial to them personally and professionally. Paul kept over 500 registrants engaged virtually through his keynote, which is no easy feat!
Meet Paul
A spork is not a compromise. It is a tool.
“Disability is a state of mind. It's not a diagnosis.”
Paul Artale, PhD, is a high impact and engaging speaker and leadership researcher who inspires leaders and organizations to break through their challenges and take their performance to the highest level.
Born with what some would call a physical disability, Paul's dream was to play college football. He was cut from his high school team. He walked on anyway, and played defensive end for the University of Toronto. He uses that experience of overcoming physical adversity to teach organizations how to create high performance culture, through leveraging strengths, adapting to life's circumstances, and creating transformational opportunities.
He blends his life stories, his experience training thousands of leaders, and his research in organizational performance into custom messages that engage, elevate, and entertain. What he gives an organization is practical: tools, strategies, and processes they can implement immediately.
Before speaking full time he was an award winning special education teacher and a manager at several universities, where the experience of being understaffed and under resourced became the basis of one of his programs. As a Toastmaster he earned the Accredited Speaker designation, held by fewer than 90 people in the organization's history.
His commitment to helping people build the life or organization they want runs through his book, The 2-Year Old's Guide to Work-Life Balance, and his podcast, Fiercely Successful. Off stage, the things he says he cannot live without are laughter, his kids, and learning.
Could Paul be right for your room?
Start with your audience.
Send your event date, who is in the room, and which of the four programs is closest to what your people are facing. Paul builds custom messages around the group, so the first conversation is about them. His own site is a second place to get to know him, not a detour.
Phone: 913-749-2489
Contact form: paulartale.com/contact
Website: paulartale.com