Experience built through doing the work.
Paragon’s practitioners have led complex business and technology change from inside organizations and as external advisors.
That experience matters where strategy meets execution—when growth, integration, modernization, operating-model change, or a struggling initiative requires practical leadership rather than another layer of advice.
Important change often needs experienced leadership without unnecessary scale.
Organizations navigating significant growth or change do not always need a large consulting team or a technology vendor. They often need experienced people who can understand the business context, make sound recommendations, and help carry the work through.
Founded in 2001, Paragon provides senior, independent, right-sized expertise. We stay directly involved, bring in additional capability deliberately when it is needed, and keep the engagement focused on the outcome the organization is trying to achieve.
The people you meet are the people who remain involved.
Paragon is practitioner-led. Senior experience is not reserved for the opening meeting and handed off once the work begins.
Paul Plischke
Paul brings more than 25 years of experience leading complex change across private- and public-sector organizations. His work spans business and technology transformation, modernization, rapid growth, operating-model change, post-acquisition integration, governance, delivery organizations, and the recovery of important programs.
He has worked both as an external advisor and from inside organizations, including executive accountability for the teams, decisions, risks, and results involved. His experience includes enterprise programs exceeding $50 million and cross-functional teams of more than 100 people working across business units and jurisdictions.
Paul’s focus is practical: understand where the organization is going, identify what is preventing it from getting there, and build the leadership, operating capability, and execution discipline needed to move forward.
Built through consulting engagements and senior roles inside complex organizations.
Paragon’s capabilities reflect decades of leadership experience. The examples below distinguish work performed through Paragon from experience gained while employed inside an organization.
Independent leadership and execution support
Paragon has provided senior advisory and delivery leadership for organizations facing modernization, integration, operating complexity, growth, and program-recovery challenges across public- and private-sector environments.
Westland Insurance
Paul initially joined Westland through Paragon and was later appointed CIO. During the four-year period, Westland grew from approximately 700 to 2,400 employees and expanded from a primarily British Columbia presence to operations in every province.
As CIO and executive sponsor for business and technology transformation, Paul helped establish the platforms, security, data, operating capabilities, and scalable teams required to support national growth.
Complex, multi-stakeholder environments
Paul’s earlier consulting and leadership work includes government, insurance, energy, mining, and financial-services environments. This breadth informs how Paragon approaches governance, risk, investment decisions, delivery, and organizational change without treating technology as the objective.
Senior attention from the first conversation through the work.
Direct involvement
The experienced people involved at the beginning remain accountable and engaged as the work progresses.
Right-sized teams
Additional expertise is introduced deliberately when it adds value—not to surround the engagement with layers.
Business-first judgment
Recommendations reflect business priorities, operating realities, risk, and the organization’s capacity to execute.
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