About / Experience
“Leadership by Storytelling: The Best Way to Learn Good Leadership Skills”
By Dr. Tom DePaoli / Leadership
Educator · Trainer · Coach
Dr. Tom DePaoli is an educator, trainer and coach who has lectured and taught extensively. He is the CEO of Apollo Solutions, which consults in human resources, leadership, supply chain, purchasing and Lean Six Sigma.
He retired from the Navy as Captain (O-6) in logistics. In his civilian careers, he was an executive in supply chain, software, consulting and human resources. He has corporate turnaround experience with Lean Six Sigma deployments and has been an employee of ten companies and consulted for fifty organizations throughout his career.
Dr. Tom has taught at several universities, live and online, and has conducted over two hundred courses. He is published in social media, journals, magazines and books, and is the author of books available on Amazon.
Explore Tom’s books on AmazonConsulting experience
His consulting projects have included leadership training, emotional intelligence, information systems, ERP, re-engineering organizations, transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating.
Industry & communications
His industry experience includes chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, IT, academic, automotive, government, military, consumer, equipment, services and consulting.
He has been involved in many forms of communications, including website design, marketing campaigns, political campaigns, radio advertisements, crisis communications and scripts.
Education
Professional certifications
Dr. DePaoli achieved the following certifications:
Leadership Stories from the Corporate Jungle and Navy Deck Plates
Leadership Stories from the Corporate Jungle and Navy Deck Plates brings together Tom’s Navy service and civilian career. Watch the presentation for an introduction to the decisions, mistakes, and people behind the writing. Then explore the reading guide and consider how those experiences connect with the responsibilities you carry in your own workplace.
Mentoring / Learning from people
Servant Leadership Stories
The leadership books connect Tom’s experience as an educator, trainer, and coach with a simple concern: taking care of people. Servant Leadership Stories explores trust, empathy, and learning alongside a team.
Teaching & mentoringA lighter side
Other light-hearted accomplishments include legendary street ball player, champion baseball card flipper, being an extra in a horror movie and hitting a golf ball over 1,000 feet with a baseball bat.
Beyond business
Memoir
Family, childhood, and memories of a different time.
Children
A story that helps children talk about bullying.
Leadership
True-life stories that make the practice of leadership tangible.
A place to begin
Tom’s career connects Navy logistics, business and education. His writing gives readers different ways to approach that experience, from a leadership memoir to stories about family and growing up.
Leadership Stories from the Corporate Jungle and Navy Deck Plates brings military service and corporate life into one reading journey. Follow it with Leadership by Storytelling to explore how an experience becomes a lesson.
Explore furtherGrowing Up Italian in the 50s follows family and childhood memories. Sydney the Monster Stops Bullies offers a story for younger readers and a different starting point for a conversation about how people treat one another.
Explore furtherThe complete collection
