Paul Fisher
Helping Leaders Negotiate, Influence and Lead
Negotiation & Leadership Training | Advisory Services
About Paul
Paul Fisher is an internationally renowned expert who provides negotiation and leadership training and advisory services to a wide variety of private and public sector organisations across multiple industries.
Paul is Programme Director of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation (OPN) at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and also designs, directs and teaches on a broad portfolio of executive negotiation and leadership programmes globally. Current and past clients include the UN World Food Programme, the Bank of Jamaica, Save the Children and the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO), among many others.
In addition to his work at Oxford, Paul teaches negotiation at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at Queen’s University Belfast and at the Western University of Ukraine, where he is a Visiting Professor. He is also Programme Director of the Small Countries Financial Management Programme, which supports economic growth and prosperity in small developing countries through capacity-building in public financial management.
Paul serves on the advisory panel for the Enhancing Leadership and Governance in Public Financial Management Programme in Africa, delivered by the African Capacity Building Foundation. He is also a certified business coach and cross-cultural trainer, with extensive experience working in complex, politically sensitive and high-stakes environments.
To discuss your organisation’s training or advisory needs, contact Paul at pfisher@axiomcomms.com or on +44 (0)7733 224850.
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Selected Publications
Negotiation/Leadership Training
Paul is a world-leading leadership and negotiation educator known for a highly interactive and immersive teaching style. His programmes are built around short, compelling modules that use a wide range of teaching tools to keep participants fully engaged throughout. Leadership and negotiation simulations sit at the heart of his approach, encouraging participants to step outside their day-to-day roles, experiment with different techniques and embed learning more deeply than sector-specific cases alone. Above all, Paul creates a safe, inclusive and supportive learning environment that fosters trust, collaboration, openness and enjoyment.
Subjects Areas that Paul Teaches And Advises On:
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Negotiation & Influence for Leaders
- The Importance of Preparation
- Conducting Virtual Negotiations
- Emotions & Negotiation Styles
- Negotiating Across Cultures
- Integrative Negotiations – How to Claim Value
- Managing Complex, Multi-Issue Negotiations
- The Power of Persuasion & Social influence
- Decision-Making
- How to Plan, Engage and Win Stakeholders Over
- Growing Your Executive Presence
- Leading Through Empathy
- Leading Successful Teams & Projects
Advisory Services
Paul also advises organisations on complex negotiation challenges as well as the design of internal leadership and negotiation programmes. He works closely with senior leaders and in-house teams to provide practical, situation-specific advice, support high-stakes negotiations and help organisations design and embed internal leadership and negotiation frameworks. Drawing on his deep cross-sector experience, Paul combines rigorous theory with real-world judgement, enabling organisations not only to navigate critical negotiations more effectively but to strengthen leadership capability, decision-making and influence as enduring organisational strengths.