NEW STUFF at Dr Paul.Online
Paul’s new book out soon! Surfing AI: 30 Fresh Terms and Smarter Ways of Talking About Artificial Intelligence. Info.
update yourself or your clients by Watching Paul’s new video on the skills AI has acquired in the last six months.
Paul’s Latest podcast, his full presentation on Eight Questions Educators Should Ask About Artificial Intelligence.
paul on How to do ‘What If Planing’ for AI. AI’s current development is so fluid new planning methodologies are needed to deal with the level of uncertainty involved.
9-minute radio clip and transcript on several topics in AI including brief discussion of some concepts from paul’s new book Surfing AI.
Workshops and webinars
We offer workshops and webinars on AI impact for companies, organisations and schools. Get in touch.
Paul’s Recent Media pieces on AI and other topics
Paul’s recent short media interviews on AI. Effect of chatbots and AI on jobs, particularly white-collar jobs, on education and assessment and on how politics may be flooded with well-written propaganda.
where Paul focuses his consulting work
Paul works as a psychologist at the individual, organizational and societal levels.
Individual psychology: Paul allocates some time to working with selected clients who are keen to change, including CEO’s and leaders. He focuses on problem-solving, career direction, lifestyle changes and helping people live more meaningful lives in the current complex and challenging age.
Artificial intelligence: It’s an exciting time from a psychologist’s point of view, for the first time we’re seeing another highly intelligent entity entering the world. We need to study it, optimize its introduction and, most importantly, work out how to get along with it. Paul has just written a book on AI to provide new, more appropriate ways of talking about it. Surfing AI.
Strategy and impact evaluation: Paul consults in organizational and societal-level strategy and evaluating the impact that organizations and initiatives have. Getting strategy right is a high-stakes enterprise and he focuses on developing better strategy tools (visual planning). In this approach, strategy groups surface and work directly on the models they have of the outcomes they are seeking and prioritize the steps needed to achieve them.
Risk management and decision-making: We all know this is an age of risk—AI, climate change, social discohesion, and geopolitical tensions. Paul focuses on overcoming the psychological barriers to selecting the right risk management framework when making high-stakes decisions. In addition, he’s an advocate of using What-If Planning to deal with uncertainty.
Strategy Psychology
Paul’s strategy and evaluation work assists sectors, governments, nonprofits, companies and indigenous groups to ensure they are outcomes-aligned and evidence-informed. His performance management and evaluation work helps identify indicators, implement outcomes-focused contracting and internal delegation and evaluate impact to prove organisations are making a difference. His startup developed an award-winning tool for faster strategic planning and alignment using visual strategy diagrams. Currently talking about strategy in an AI world. See details of his Visual Planning approach.
Societal Psychology
Paul’s current media comment focuses mainly on psychological and social impacts and social strategy options in what he see as two pivotal areas for the future: the current rapidly evolving AI revolution and climate change risk and the social response. He gives presentations and workshops on the psychological and social impacts of AI. In addition, he writes opinion pieces explaining concepts from his theoretical work in outcomes theory. He also has an ongoing gig doing popular psychology tips on commercial radio. See his media page and his AI impact workshops page and his substack and podcast.
Clinical Psychology
Paul also allocates some time to his clinical psychology practice, using a number of evidence-based approaches, including CBT, ACT, DBT and MBT. No one can deny we live in a stressful age. He develops and teaches people tools for facing our dynamically changing world with increased equanimity. Having had experience in large organisations and with entrepreneurship, he often work at the cross-over between therapy and coaching for directors, CEOs, consultants, senior managers, entrepreneurs and others wanting to thrive in this psychologically demanding age. Clinical psychology resources.
Background
Paul (MSocSci(Hon), MA(Applied), PhD) has held a number of management, clinical, consulting, research and university positions. These include managing research units and national research strategies and working as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has consulted for organizations in almost all public and nonprofit sectors and for international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. Paul’s software startup developed award-winning software. He is a registered clinical psychologist.