Paul Culmsee is an IT professional, facilitator and sense-maker with 21 years experience across a wide variety of IT disciplines. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MOSS 2007), Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He has also held the Cisco Certified Network Professional certification. Paul is one of only three Cognexus Certified Dialogue Mappers in the world and along with Chris Tomich is the only practicing Dialogue Mapper in the southern hemisphere to have trained directly under Jeff Conklin of the Cognexus Institute in California. He is a regular international conference speaker in IT and non IT circles and is a sought after trainer and advisor.

Paul has worked as a security analyst, business adviser, dialogue mapper, trainer, infrastructure manager, QA/Product and project manager on a wide variety of IT projects, as well as designing and developing the EZ-Rent property investment tax and cash flow analyser. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from Edith Cowan University. His popular SharePoint blog CleverWorkarounds attracts more than 1 million hits per month and specialises in planning, governance, ROI and project management. He is currently writing a book on sense-making and studying a Masters degree in Integrated Human Studies from the University of Western Australia