Executive Creative Leader | Advisor | Speaker
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Paul is a seasoned creative executive and leader who turns strategy, design, and emerging tech into business results. With 30+ years at the crossroads of creativity and commerce, he’s helped Fortune 500s transform at scale, led a high-growth automotive startup to a successful exit, and pioneered early moves in e-commerce before it was mainstream. You’ve probably seen his work on national TV, Apple’s WWDC stage, or even during Super Bowl 58. Trusted by brands like Forrester, L2 Gartner, and global orgs, Paul is a speaker, coach, and advisor who helps people and companies lead what’s next, with confidence, culture, and craft.
As Vice President of Customer Experience at Big Green Egg, the world’s leading manufacturer of ceramic kamado-style cookers, he leads design, creative, engineering, program management, and customer service to shape and elevate the customer journey across every touchpoint. He focuses on building interconnected experiences that put customers first, upholds brand promises, pursues excellence at each interaction, and creates lasting emotional connections.
Paul is a founding cohort member of Punks & Pinstripes -- a private network of transformation executives. Find them at punksandpinstripes.com.
"Tra-digital" Experience


Making AI Accesible
For business professionals across all fields, navigating the new AI landscape can be tricky or a bit confusing but Kick Consultancy can teach you how AI can be a powerful tool for tapping into creativity and sustainability.
In this live interview, I joined ATL Live to address the ever-changing landscape of AI, how to navigate it with ease and discretion, and why AI literacy is critical for modern teams and leaders.
Bold Journey
Dealing with haters and naysayers? It's part of the gig when you're out here doing things that actually matter. Anyone who's ever shaken things up, or rattled some cages, has had their fair share of critics, henchmen or assassins – but that's how you know you're on the right path.
Read my latest interview with Bold Journey Magazine.

Recent Press
KICK Consultancy Featured in Bold Journey
KICK Consultancy Featured in Canvas Rebel
KICK Consultancy Featured in VoyageATL
SCADpro Scores At Super Bowl LVIII
SCAD Lands Its Latest Superpower
David Yurman Partners With SCAD for a Tech-Forward Holiday Campaign
SCAD Students Design David Yurman's Holiday Campaign
Inside SCAD, Finding Creative Jobs
SCAD AnimationFest 2023 Review
Next Gen Skills
SCAD Opens New Innovation Hub
SCAD Teams Up With Deloitte
SCADpro Partners with FilmHedge
Harnessing Customer Emotion
Podcast, UserTesting.com
Tech Crunch
Apple Adds New AR Shopping Tools to Home Depot's Toolbox
CNET
Apple expands ‘Quick Look’ To Let Retailers Sell Directly in AR
Forbes
Home Depot’s Transformation To A Fully Interconnected Retailer
Honors + Awards
SCADpro Students Design Atlanta’s New Patrol Cars
Unveiled and Celebrated by Mayor, Andre Dickens
L2 Big Box Retailers
The Home Depot, Genius and #2 Ranking
L2 Big Box Retailers
The Home Depot, Genius and #3 Ranking
Winner
The Home Depot, Forrester #1 Mobile App in Retail
Winner
The Home Depot, Project Color App, W3 Gold Award
Silver Winner
Dressbarn, Customer Engagement Awards, Retail Touchpoints
Silver Award
Promax BDA, Viacom, Viacommunity Website
Official Honoree
Webby Awards, Viacom, Viacommunity Website
Internet Retailer Hot 100 Award
AVON/mark. Facebook Widget
Smashes, Thrashes + Hits

It Takes A Rebel To Create Change In A Company
If Pete "Maverick" Mitchell had a profile on LinkedIn, I’d not only message and follow him, but I’d recruit and enlist him into Punks & Pinstripes, a private network of 100 transformation executives. Maverick is one of us - an authentic nonconformist, classic punk that rejects by-the-book conventionalism, executive obstructionists and those out to annihilate him.
His secret weapons? You'll have to read my article, "Take My Breath Away, Top Gun's Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell Is A Punk."














