Paul is a Partner and Principal Consultant for Partnerships & Operational Excellence at Centred Performance. He is also President of Paul Clarry Healthcare Infrastructure Planning Inc.

Drawing on almost 35 years of hospital and public sector service experience and with an extensive network of contacts in the public sector, the hospital sector, facility services sector and the design and construction sectors, Paul focuses on forging the teams, strategies and initiatives necessary to achieve client goals, whether it involves infrastructure redevelopment or service redesign. Paul focuses on helping clients to make the most productive use of their people, facilities and real estate.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Economics and in Political Science. He has studied extensively and holds certificates in a variety of areas including financial analysis, project management and leadership. He has spoken extensively on a variety of topics, including hospital construction, support services transformation and third-party revenue generating programs in hospitals. While a hospital senior executive, Paul chaired the Ontario Hospital Association’s provincial negotiating committee on two occasions and succeeded in securing the first ever negotiated settlement with the Service Employee International Union.

Paul began his career as an economist working in the Ministry of Treasury and Economics at Queen’s Park in Toronto. During this time, Paul gained extensive experience negotiating federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, federal-provincial economic development agreements and constitutional proposals for the 1992 Charlottetown Accord. Following his federal-provincial experience, Paul moved on to work on capital investment and land use planning in the renamed Ministry of Finance and then in Management Board of Cabinet. Paul played a key role in the decision-making process to fund the restructuring of Ontario’s hospital system through the Health Services Restructuring Commission and in 1997 moved to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care where he assumed leadership of that Ministry’s capital services branch overseeing the more than $6 billion in infrastructure investments to achieve that restructuring.

In 2002, Paul joined Southlake Regional Health Centre as Vice President, Redevelopment and Support Services where he led a team implementing a $196 million expansion and renovation of the hospital. Later, he led teams in developing a cancer centre and adjoining parking structure, a privately-developed medical arts building and a hospice, as well as supporting the development of Southlake Village Long-Term Care facility on the hospital campus. As the leader for support services in the hospital, Paul led the transformation of the housekeeping and portering services at Southlake with the assistance of private sector service providers. As this new service model matured, Paul supported implementation of service excellence training across his portfolio. This decision launched his ongoing work with Larry Graham and Centred Performance. While at Southlake, Paul took on leadership for clinical support services, including laboratory medicine, pharmacy and diagnostic imaging. As well, on two occasions, Paul assumed the role of Regional Vice President for the Southlake Regional Cancer Centre where he worked collaboratively with other hospitals in York Region providing cancer care and with other Regional Vice Presidents at Cancer Care Ontario.

In May 2015, Paul leveraged his extensive experience to establish Paul Clarry Healthcare Infrastructure Planning Inc. to provide planning advice, assistance and support to healthcare providers planning renovation or new construction projects. Paul has provided support to a number of hospitals since establishing his own firm, and as well has spent time providing contract management support to the hospital in the Turks and Caicos Islands and time as an interim Vice President to a leading hospital in Toronto in implementing its redevelopment strategy.

Paul resides in Aurora with his wife. Paul has coached softball teams and managed house league and rep football teams and has served on the executives of the Aurora Minor Ball Association and the York Simcoe Minor Football Association. He is an avid reader of military history, which may have inspired both of his sons to serve in the Canadian Forces Reserves. While an avid sport motorcyclist, Paul’s work and family activities mean he does not get as much time in the saddle as he would like.