The World Table
Board Member
Charles Randall Paul
Business & Social Entrepreneur
Founder & Chairman @the World Table
Social Science Ph.D. @university of Chicago MBA @harvard
SW Area Partner @Trammell Crow Co
Business & Social Entrepreneur
Founder & Chairman @the World Table
Social Science Ph.D. @university of Chicago MBA @harvard
SW Area Partner @Trammell Crow Co
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Experience
The World Table
Founder, Executive Chairman
Foundation for Religious Diplomacy
Founder, President
Trammell Crow Company
Area Partner, Southwest Region
Founder
Employee
Board Member
Projects
Designer, co-convener, diplomat · After years of trust-building efforts with Javad Zarif (then UN Mission head), my Iranian colleague and I at the… · More Foundation for Religious Diplomacy arranged a formal meeting in NYC with President Ahmadinejad during which he answered questions from a group of a hundred American thought leaders and students from several universities. Every person attending had a chance to candidly speak with President Ahmadinejad. A scholar who was of the Baha'i faith (illegal in Iran) directly asked the President why the Baha'is were persecuted in Iran. He responded that they were a rebellious political movement, not a religion. She responded in perfect Farsi that she was a Baha'i and that they had no political agenda other than the freedom to practice. She asked him to tell his cabinet that truth. He responded by smiling meekly and saying nothing. Afterward she was moved to tears, saying, "I am so grateful today to have had the chance to do something that no Baha'i has ever been able to do and walk away safely: to tell the President of Iran the truth and leave him speechless as a result."
A year later I went to Iran to engage in a conversations with Iranian religious and scholarly leaders about the way trust could be developed even though honest discussions of divergent goals, beliefs and policies. I have a standing invitation to return to continue to pragmatically find ways to work together in the face of some irreconcilable differences.
A year later I went to Iran to engage in a conversations with Iranian religious and scholarly leaders about the way trust could be developed even though honest discussions of divergent goals, beliefs and policies. I have a standing invitation to return to continue to pragmatically find ways to work together in the face of some irreconcilable differences.
Education
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Achievements
● With partner, conceived, designed, and developed The World Table PBC, a public benefit profit making corporation that helps everyone online develop and benefit from trustworthy reputations. Researched and developed The Way of Openness, a method for ethical interaction especially between critics and rivals.
● In 2007 received Best Apartment Design in USA Grand Award (Pillars of the Industry, National Home Builders) and Best Rental Community in the Nation (Gold Nugget, Grand Award, National Associate of Multifamily Community Developers.)
● From 1980 to 1988 was managing partner for Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Conceived, financed, and marketed over forty office, hotel, shopping and warehouse facilities worth over $650,000,000. Trained four successful partners in real estate development. Received the Phoenix Skyline Award.
● Wrote the longest dissertation on record at the University of Chicago (Committee on Social Thought, 2000.)
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People or entities from all walks of life and worldviews that desire to enjoy expanding their lives by authentically engaging others about anything that really matters to them--entities with confidence to influence others only by fair means of mutual persuasion without threatening fear or coercion.
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