Paul A. Raggio, MBA

🇺🇸 Executive Business Coach 🇺🇸 Fractional CEO & COO 🇺🇸 Crisis Manager 🇺🇸

Five Star Leader Development · Los Angeles, California, United States

Aug 2022 – Present(3 yrs 9 mos)

🤜 I develop CEOs and their Executive Teams. I help senior leaders manage through crisis. 🤛 I'm an experienced executive leader and a master visionary, strategic thinker, decision-maker, and execution planner. I help leaders and hold them accountable to: ✅ Be character driven, purposeful, visionary, inspiring, and action-oriented. ✅ Scale companies to achieve phenomenal results. ✅ Create thriving organizational cultures. ✅ Build and inspire winning teams. ✅ Align internal and external stakeholders on the company’s vision, mission, and growth path. ✅ Tie plans to goals to resources to accountable champions. ✅ Manage through both personal and professional crisis. ✅ Incorporate best business practices and optimize productivity. ✅ Be emotionally intelligent, empathetic, and easily relate to and engage with critical constituencies.

Executive Development Facilitator 🇺🇸 Leadership & Executive Business Developer

One True North INC · Los Angeles County, California, United States

Oct 2017 – Jul 2022(4 yrs 10 mos)

As the 2021 Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce Rising Star Awardee, and voted as the best Business Consultant of 2021 by The Santa Clarita Valley Signal Best of 2021 Businesses in the Santa Clarita Valley, I bring over forty years of leadership, business, and personal development experience to executives and business owners. "Brilliant! Brilliant in its clarity and simplicity." This was my response to Monte Wyatt, CEO of Adding Zeros when asked about the 5 Disciplines of Exponential Growth. I develop executive leadership teams and develop businesses on becoming successful organizations by being sustainable, predictable, stable, consistent, and emotionally connected. My core clients are CEOs or leadership teams, with fast-growing organizations, that are passionate about both team- and self-investment, driven towards a big vision of the future, and understand that their journey need not be taken alone.

President Security Strategic Business Unit

Chenega Corporation · Ashburn, VA

Jul 2003 – Sep 2017(14 yrs 3 mos)

I retired as President of the Security Strategic Business Unit for Chenega, a billion-dollar Alaska Native Corporation. I led and managed the strategic growth, profit and loss, and capture of market share in the federal government security industry for eight limited liability law enforcement and security companies with 2,000 employees operating in forty-one states and two countries. During my tenure, I created $450 million in work backlog, tripled annual revenue from $47 million to $150 million, and more than quadrupled earnings from $2 million to $10 million. All this was accomplished by leading company teams that won several hundred-million-dollar, multi-year, federal contracts.

Colonel, Retired

U.S. Army

Jun 1977 – Mar 2003(25 yrs 10 mos)

I served in the U.S. Army for just under 26 years, achieving the rank of Colonel, and I worked in three distinct professional fields: law enforcement and corrections, congressional relations, and resource management. In the law enforcement field, I commanded military police units at the company, battalion, and brigade levels. My last command assignment was at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as the Commander of the 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne), the only U.S. Army military police paratrooper unit. This command included 3,200 personnel assigned to five military police battalions at separate geographic locations east of the Mississippi River. I also served as Fort Bragg’s Director of Public Safety and led all law enforcement, firefighting, safety, and security activities for an installation of 45,000 people. I retired from the Army as the Programs Division Chief in the Army’s Legislative Liaison Office where I supervised fifteen legislative liaisons in Army activities with the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Additionally, I served on the Joint Staff as the Deputy Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. My portfolio included legislative activities with the Senate, where I handled all nominations before the Senate Armed Services Committee for the commanders of the unified and combatant commands. My other key assignments in the Army were as a financial resource manager for the Defense Attaché Program, in the Office of the Comptroller, Defense Intelligence Agency where I managed a $120 million budget for 98 Defense Attaché Offices throughout the world; and as a human resource manager for Army colonels where I managed their distribution Army-wide. I'm a veteran of both Operations Just Cause and Desert Shield and Storm Campaigns.