The Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg, TX | Houston, TX | Spirit Lake, IA
"One on One" for Business Leaders
Welcome and Introduction to Our Business Services
After serving for 30 years as a leadership coach and strategy consultant for companies around the world, I founded “One on One” to provide support and a broad range of services to Boards, executives, and their teams. My work helps leaders address the personal, executive, and strategic challenges of leading organizations in disruptive, complex, chaotic and rapidly-changing markets. Scroll down or click here for Paul's business bio and resume.
"One on One" exists to help leaders create and manage agile organizations, organizations that thrive under uncertainty and disruption, organizations that foster continuous relevance for their leaders, their employees, and the customers or clients they serve. Click here for a description of our mission to serve leaders who are confronted by the challenges of leading under disruption and uncertainty.
"One on One" clients include leaders in organizations large and small, public and private, family businesses and start-ups. We also serve leaders of professional services firms, hospitals and physician services and non-profits. For a list of representative clients, click here. For a list of client testimonials, click here.
"One on One" customizes solutions to help leaders develop and strengthen their ability to govern and set direction, to structure and mobilize their organization to capture opportunity and mitigate risk, to communicate in ways that motivate and inspire followers to achieve results, and to shift direction and reconfigure their organizations in response to disruption and changing market conditions. Often our scope of work is developed in response to a particular client need. Scroll down or click here for a list of frequently requested services.
The “One on One” approach to leadership development focuses both on Personal and Executive mastery.
- Personal Mastery develops the leader’s ability to work with integrity, power, rationality, self-control, and the soft skills required to build relationships, create alignment, and manage change.
- Executive Mastery develops the leader’s core business and organizational skills needed to set direction and deliver results in complex markets. Both are critical for leaders and their organizations to thrive.
For a more detailed overview of these core personal and executive skill sets, click here.
For information about how we structure client engagements and fees, click here.
"One On One" Serves Leaders
The Status Quo Is Not a Formula for Success
We help leaders create and manage agile organizations, organizations that thrive under uncertainty and disruption, organizations that foster continuous relevance for their leaders, their employees and the customers or clients they serve.
We serve leaders like you, who work in complex, rapidly-changing markets—leaders who have no patience for the status quo. The acronym VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) is commonly used today to describe market environments that significantly increase the number and complexity of business and personal challenges for leaders, their Boards, and their teams.
With everything that’s on your plate, leading and governing a business that operates in a VUCA environment can stretch the stamina and capability of even the most competent executive.
You've got a lot to do . . .
- Gather intelligence, develop strategy, transform your organization and seize opportunities
- Mitigate strategic threats, like COVID-19
- Super-please your customers
- Address disruptions to traditional business models
- Execute and Integrate M&A and other business ecosystem plays
- Develop and commercialize innovation, while fending off displacement by competitor innovations
- Conduct business in international markets
- Gain access to capital markets and find the right investment
- Find, keep, manage, and develop A+ talent
- Create a "Winning" Culture
- Manage conflict
- Manage Board relations and governance issues
- Integrate AI and other new technologies into business operations; balancing AI and human capital
- Compensate and reward leaders, managers, staff
- Lead under unstable economic and political realities
- Maintain your sanity: manage personal stress, burnout, marriage and family issues
"One on One" Business Services
Services for the CEO, the C-Suite and the Board of Directors
- Leadership Development: Executive coaching for the CEO, leadership team and senior managers. C-Suite preparedness, executive start-up and support, development and enrichment, conflict resolution, interventions (performance issues), priorities and time management, executive health, renewal and managing stress
- Strategy Under Uncertainty: Working with leaders to create an agile organization, find a new "True North", structure and animate processes to promote the adaptive evolution of products, entrepreneurial excellence, flat structure, empowered teams, and continuous relevance
- Strategy Development and Implementation: provide expertise in full range of strategy development, planning and execution services
- Mitigating Strategic Risks: scenario planning and plan execution (e.g., dealing with the challenges of COVID-19, competition, challenges of innovation)
- Business Ecosystem Development: identify, execute, and integrate ecosystem plays (inorganic strategy, M&A, partnerships)
- Profit Enhancement: Strengthening an organization's ability to make money
- Project Management
- Executive and Managerial Assessments for performance, promotion. or hiring evaluations: Certified in a wide range of assessment tools (personality type, leadership and managerial position suitability and effectiveness, 360s, communication, stress and health)
- Executive Team Formation, Assessment and Optimization: building high-functioning executive teams
- Succession Planning: Who’s Next Up? Developing the succession plan and working with high potentials
- Team Training: Stress Management, Workplace Communication, Leadership, Change Management, Conflict Resolution, other topics
- Support for family businesses in transition (new leadership, conflict, Board composition, wealth transfer)
- Scorecards and measurement systems
- Meeting/workshop presentations and facilitation
- Creating a “Winning” Culture
- Board Selection: lead or assist with processes to identify and recruit candidates
- Board Evaluations: support, conduct, facilitate, and document Board evaluations, propose and execute remedies
- Optimize Board Functioning: setting priorities, meeting agendas, and conflict resolution
- Executive Compensation: planning and evaluation
Client Testimonials
We Help Our Clients Thrive
“This program was excellent in the absolute, a model for all companies and universities.” McKinsey evaluation completed for Client’s Board of Trustees
“Your approach really helped us adapt to a changing competitive environment. What was important to me was that you didn’t come to us with a pre-packaged program or trite answers. You worked with me, our leaders and managers to generate choices, and then helped us discuss and select the best strategies, which, in the end, significantly improved our financial performance. We are now much more effective at leading this company.” Small Business Owner
“Our business processes and industry are highly technical. Not many consultants could come in and work effectively with our leaders without comparable scientific credentials. You did. Based on your business acumen and years of experience as a trusted advisor to leaders in a variety of industries, you provided exactly what we needed—help in dealing with the business issues we faced and also expertise, the ability to identify and structure the capabilities we need to succeed. You also have great skills on the soft side of leadership, which got us all focused on the same objectives and working collaboratively to achieve them. This program’s ROI was great. Personally, you had a very positive impact on my life!” Global C-Suite Executive, Oil and Gas Industry
“This is a good person—capable, experienced, trustworthy, friendly, creative, and easy to work with. We liked that he is not highly leveraged and, therefore, unlike other consultants we’ve worked with, has no need to keep consulting staff busy by introducing unnecessary consulting products. He gave us exactly what we needed.” CEO Food Industry
“By every measure, you are making a great contribution to our success—financial performance has significantly improved, market reach has expanded, our leaders are on the same page and are working collaboratively. We are stronger and better human beings for having experienced this.” CEO of a major U.S. manufacturer
“The return on investment for this program was substantial. I felt like I put a nickel in a slot machine and hit the jackpot.” CEO of a construction company
"As a leader, I was never able to achieve what I've achieved under your guidance. You developed and guided us through a process that not only set a clear direction for our company, but helped us communicate, work collaboratively, plan, change and accomplish the objectives of our strategy. We achieved results far beyond what we had envisioned. Thank you!" CEO of a major distribution alliance.
“For the first time, our board and our leadership team are on the same page and in unanimous agreement about what we need to do. Great work.” Senior Hospital Administrator
About Client Engagements and Fees
Client engagements can be structured in a variety of ways. For example:
- A project, with a clearly defined scope of work, deliverables, and timelines
- Ongoing coaching, for one or more executives, for a specific or indefinite span of time
- Full-time or part-time interim roles
- Workshops or training sessions
We offer a variety of fee-based arrangements: fixed fee, fee per executive, monthly fee for a group of executives, daily or hourly rates, or a combination of methods. We will work with you to find the optimal way to structure fees.
Paul's Business Biography
Paul Feiler, Ph.D.
Paul has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Divisional President of a large US business advisory firm (UHY, now BDO TX) and as an interim President and CEO for public and private companies. Recently he led the global strategy practice for BRG, a leading global consulting firm. He possesses an outstanding track record of developing leaders who, individually and with their teams, solve complex problems, lead transformational change, create value, and inspire and motivate followers. He has provided advisory services to corporate boards and executive coaching to C-Suite executives and their teams in over 75 organizations. He is an expert in the design and execution of strategy with large organizations, nonprofits, and closely-held businesses and has successfully led large, global, strategy and organizational change projects for multinational corporations. He is a skilled negotiator and mediator in business ecosystem, M&A integration and dispute resolution contexts and has served as the VP of the Texas Association of Mediators and on other Boards. He has authored numerous articles and over 20 manuals related to stress management, change, leadership, strategy and a variety of personal and business topics.
Paul earned his PhD. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He graduated from the Harvard Business School Graduate Leadership Program, completed his MDiv at Bethel University, MN, and completed his undergraduate degree at Wheaton College, IL. He has completed over 20 graduate courses in Psychology, Counseling, Neuroscience, and Organizational Development and is currently completing a thesis for the Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. Paul served as a professor in the EMBA Program at the University of Houston and as a lecturer at Rice University.
Paul offices in Fredericksburg, TX, Houston, TX, and Spirit Lake, IA and serves business clients in their offices throughout the country or on Zoom. He and his wife have five grown and married sons and two grandsons! Paul enjoys fishing, golf, baseball, music (trumpet) and building things.
