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Paul D. Thomas, SPHR, is the author of The African American Professional's Green Book. A human resources executive with more than three decades of progressive experience — including service as Chief Human Resources Officer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette — he founded a consulting practice focused on executive strategy, leadership coaching, and future-ready workforce transformation. He holds Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessor credentials and writes about navigating bias, building leverage, and advancing careers under political and institutional pressure.
~150 words · Feature articles, conference programs
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Paul D. Thomas, SPHR, is a human resources executive and author with more than thirty years of progressive leadership experience across higher education, government, and private industry. He served as Chief Human Resources Officer at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he led workforce strategy for several thousand employees, restructured compensation systems, and built inclusive talent practices into institutions that had operated on informal networks for generations. The African American Professional's Green Book was written from inside that experience — a field manual for navigating workplaces shaped by bias and political hostility with risk awareness, documentation, leverage, and dignity. He now leads a consulting practice serving executives across higher education, healthcare, and the public and private sectors, and holds Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessor credentials.
