Meet Christina Paul

Christina Paul, AICP

is a policy planner, family and 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 has also been raising a family full of lovely little people during that time.

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

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 or consultation 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. 

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.

Now, as a certificated coach, Christina supports families with all the care and expertise she has amassed over her life and career. Our families are our businesses, and Christina provides the framework for families to align their goals, befriend and manage their money, and ensure their use of time reflects the way they want to be living now and in the future.

Ms. Paul runs her own coaching and planning 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.