During his 20 years with KAEC, Kentucky Living increased in circulation from 400,000 to more than 500,000 and annual advertising income rose from $750,000 to more than $1 million. Whether working as a reporter and copy editor for newspapers, working with the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Washington DC, or on his own projects, it is the power of communication that has always held Paul’s focus, particularly the power of honest communication to bring people together and move society forward.

It was in large part how two restaurant owners communicated with their staff and how they encouraged the staff to communicate with each other that Paul found intriguing enough to be the catalyst for his first book, Small Business, Big Heart: How One Family Redefined the Bottom Line.

Married to his wife Debbie, a public education advocate, since 1986, Paul says that she and their daughter, Emma, Development Manager with the Constellation Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., as well as an actor in area community theater, are the biggest blessings of his life. When not writing or spending time with Debbie or Emma, Paul fills his time attending events of the Louisville arts scene, adding to his eclectic music collection, working out at the local YMCA, and walking the family beagle, Bentley.