Biography

Paul M. Mastrangelo, Ph.D.

Paul is a talent management consultant, author, and executive speaker with 25+ years’ experience in organization development, HR research, and leadership education. His passion is to collaborate with business leaders to determine their target workplace culture for specific business outcomes, measure their current culture to discover paths toward the target, and partner with them to cultivate the desired behaviors and results. His prior responsibilities were maintaining and growing customer services by designing culture/engagement surveys, analyzing multivariate data sets, interpreting results for CEOs and their management teams, crafting communication strategy, developing organizational change management interventions, and leading team-building sessions. His clients have included Apple, Arla Foods, Behr, Cisco Systems, Goodyear, HP, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Orkla, Standex, United Nations, VF, and Wolters Kluwer. He has made presentations to business leaders in 14 countries, including memorable trips to Columbia, Latvia, and Saudi Arabia. A former tenured associate professor, Paul has provided training for HR specializations such as recruitment, hiring, performance management, training, and data analytics (using IBM SPSS, Microsoft Excel, etc.).

Paul has over 25 professional publications, including a 2020 chapter on sample surveys for continuous listening programs, a 2014 article on peer-nominated action teams, a 2010 chapter on creating infectious change in global organizations, and the 2008 book Employee Surveys in Management. He maintains a professional online presence on LinkedIn and Twitter @paulmastrangelo. Paul received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Ohio University in 1993 and his BA in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 1989, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
On a personal note Paul is a native of Rhode Island, with a daughter attending Northeastern Law School and a son enrolling at the University of Vermont. Paul spends time playing Steely Dan, Beatles, and 80’s songs on piano; lamenting his inconsistent outside shot playing basketball; learning how to longboard (way past his athletic prime); and enjoying quality beverages with his wonderful fiancée.