Meet Christina Paul

Christina Paul, MRTPI, AICP is a strategic planner, leadership coach, campus facilities expert and experienced facilitator. She has been a planning consultant working on a range of urban and institutional projects across the U.S. for 15 years. She is also a Chartered Planner of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

As a planner for cities and institutions of higher education, her work is focused on developing well-supported, innovative, implementable plans that reflect the vision of the community or organization, and a comprehensive understanding of the realities of the planning context.

Ms. Paul’s urban planning work focuses on long-range planning, including Downtown, Neighborhood, Park system and Specific Plans, as well as comprehensive or General Plan Updates. Christina’s institutional planning practice includes Strategic Plans, Educational Master plans, and Facility Master Plans.

The needs of each project are different, so Christina works with teams of experts to address planning questions and facilitate the necessary project. She works closely with clients and their teams throughout the planning process, bringing together client expertise with the planning team’s capacity and technical knowledge.

Christina also facilitates the outreach portions of each process, involving stakeholders and community members so that they, too, can provide insights into and comments on the plans that will shape their futures. She often completes her work in a multi-organizational context and includes implementation planning and project management guidance in each project. 

Christina has deep experience in comprehensive sustainability planning, from developing standalone documents to integrating into each element of a long-range plan.

As part of her planning education at MIT, Christina also studied leadership with Peter Senge at the MIT Sloan Business School. At Sloan, Christina learned what it takes from an organizational perspective to not only make plans, but to implement them, and what changes need to be made within organizations to grow and evolve.

Many of the organizations she has worked with throughout her career excel in their areas of expertise, and are led and staffed by technical experts who may not have received a great deal of training in team leadership, and who need to focus on serving clients, leaving little time for team development or personal reflection and goal setting.  

Now, as a certificated coach, Christina supports clients in professional services, higher education and local government as they lead their teams and accelerate their personal career trajectory in a direction that lights them up.

Ms. Paul has technical expertise in strategic planning processes, campus space planning, urban planning and design, statistics, community outreach, facilitation, spatial data analysis, sustainability, planning for healthy communities, master planning and campus design.

Ms. Paul now runs her own consultancy, works with partners to make the world a more delightful, sustainable and joyful place. She splits her time between California and the U.K.