Paul Batz
CEO & Founder
Goodness pays
Paul Batz is the Founder and CEO of Good Leadership, an organizational effectiveness firm built on the belief: goodness pays. Paul leads a team who works with leaders to create a culture of healthy accountability, where the teams across the organization deliver the promises in the operating plan, so senior executives stay focused on winning in the market and attracting the best talent. Paul is the author of eight books, including the 2025 title: Healthy Accountability: The Research-based Pathway to Better Results, Faster, and Easier.
About
Paul Batz centers his work around the conviction that goodness pays. He partners with leaders to build cultures of healthy accountability, where people win together in an environment where individuals take personal ownership, and embrace the support of the team, to deliver quality work on time. When accountability starts from a foundation of goodness, the culture thrives with a “seeks accountability” mindset where encouragement and positive teamwork are constant in all economic conditions.
In 2024, Good Leadership released its landmark research on healthy accountability, identifying a “Pathway to Healthy Accountability™” with five core elements that underpin high-performing organizations. Those insights are propelling transformation: clients report stronger alignment, faster execution, and a more resilient culture where accountability is embraced, not enforced.
In The Community
Paul is the creator and host of the Good Leadership Breakfast – the premier leadership development series in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. He has hosted more than 115 episodes featuring research with more than 100 executive speakers.
A prolific author, Paul started Good Leadership Press in 2017, a publishing label which produces positive books and tools to help good leaders create great results in their personal and professional lives. Paul is the author of eight books, including his latest Healthy Accountability, published by Good Leadership Press.
Paul’s body of work includes:
- Coach to 400+ senior executive leaders, 200+ teams, and more than 100 CEOs and business owners
- Author of eight books, including his latest, Healthy Accountability
- Inventor of the Team Momentum Survey™ for formal and informal teams
- Founder of the Good Leadership Breakfast Series, a consistently sold-out leadership development series in Minneapolis/St. Paul
Paul is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and a recipient of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal “Unsung Hero of Corporate Philanthropy” Award.
Outside of work he is hopelessly addicted to golf, an Elton John wannabe piano player, a philanthropist, and he loves hosting dinner parties with his business partner/wife, Melinda, at their home in Bloomington, MN.