Paul Michalski

Founder of Integrous LLC

Paul Michalski has been on a journey that resulted in the creation of Integrous LLC, a law firm providing integrity advice and legal counsel to faith-driven clients. Integrous is the by-product of a 50-year journey, including 30+ years as a lawyer and 13 years of involvement in marketplace ministry and the faith-work movement. It also reflects Paul's life-long commitment to “integrity” as a core value and his personal purpose statement: “To serve by redeeming work through the impartation of wisdom, spotlighting God’s truth and connecting its meaning to organizational cultures and practices.”

Paul graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1983 and Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1986. He became a partner with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and for over 22 years practiced corporate law in New York and London.

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A Structure for your Prayers

God wants a relationship with you, so it’s not just about solving problems! And, as you deepen your relationship with God through prayer, it becomes easier and easier to know His will for your life and your life and your entrepreneurship.

What to Pray For & When to Pray

Many times, it seems that we reserve our most fervent prayers for our biggest problems that are not easily solved by our human efforts. It’s like prayer is our final go-to problem-solving tool when we are stuck with our backs against the wall.

The Reason to Pray: So That… Prayers

As an entrepreneur and leader, people expect more from you. To make the difficult decisions, to set the right direction, and lead them to success.

5 Keys to Success in Business: The Total Quality Life Approach

As an entrepreneur, living a total quality life has to start with YOU to have an impact in your business.

Are You A “Rich Young Ruler”? How Priorities and Identity Reveal Heart

"Are you a rich young ruler?" is a question every faith-driven leader must honestly assess if they are to lead an organization with faithful integrity in alignment with Biblical beliefs, principles, and priorities (what I will call business a better way).

What Makes Work Meaningful or Meaningless?

With a deep-rooted identity in Christ, we can begin to find joy, inspiration, and meaning in whatever we do.

Creative God, Creative You

Creativity is something many of us do for free. Because we’re called to it. Explore how God’s creativity expresses itself through entrepreneurship.

A Business Leader’s Guide to Ethical AI

As believers and business leaders, the curious question of artificial intelligence (AI) is one facing each of us. In what ways should we embrace this generational revolution? In what ways should we reject it?

Bravery in Vulnerability: Why Empathy is Important in Leadership

Empathy requires vulnerability. Could I be brave enough to be vulnerable? If I wanted someone to rejoice or weep with me, I needed to let people know how I felt. Trust people with my emotions, needs, and mess.

How I Found My Calling in Total Home Organization

Have you ever felt called to do something, and you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt it was God telling you to do it?

Leveraging Generative AI for Human Flourishing – A Biblical Perspective on AI

We are in the process of a tectonic transformation in the way we work and live – let’s rise to the challenge of using generative AI to speak and create life, rather than standing on the sidelines.

Three Stages of a Kingdom Business That Will Transform Your Corporate Leadership

In Pierce Brantley's research, he's discovered that many well-meaning Christian business owners will get stuck at various stages of business without realizing it.

The Midas Touch and Love of Money

What 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Has to Say to Entrepreneurs about success and the love of money.

What’s Wrong With “Don’t Worry; Be Happy!” Work Advice?

Do you feel unhappy at work? If so, listen to this real-life story of addiction, advice, and altered mindset.

How to Roll Out Your Core Values to Your Entire Company

Leaders understand that successful meetings result in learning, inspiration and alignment. If you want a successful outcome, you have to plan, prepare and execute when the day arrives. Here are a couple of ingredients we learned made the day truly significant…

The Four Characteristics of a Successful Social Enterprise

A successful pharmaceutical entrepreneur shares his faith driven keys to success.

Be A Different Type of Entrepreneur!

Entrepreneurship lessons from the owner of Tacos 4 Life, a mission-driven taco restaurant.

Leadership Wisdom from UMB Bank and the 2008 Financial Crisis

While others were making risky subprime loans, we rowed close to shore safely in the sight of land by adhering to time-tested safety and soundness principles. While others thought that maybe we had lost our way in a brave new world, we thought differently.

God, Bless My Business!

When I pray, am I trying to convince God to bless my business? Or am I asking God to lead and direct the business He had provided? The hard reality is that I sometimes ask God to bless the business plans I had established and thinking that was enough.

Leading With Questions: A Biblical Strategy for Leadership

By leading with questions, we can represent the way of Jesus in everyday life and create a culture of curiosity, respect, and continuous improvement within our organizations.

3 Biblical Principles for Embracing Change

How can we move from being a change loather to becoming a change lover? Here are three actions that have helped me as a faith-driven entrepreneur.

Cosmos Corporation: A Study on Endurance and Faithfulness

In the late 1980s, Cosmos Corporation’s lone shampoo supplier shut down abruptly. In the blink of an eye, Cosmos had hundreds of customer orders with no one to fill them. Here’s what they did.

Faith in Leadership: Ten Tenets for Navigating the Workplace

Bill Yoh offers ten ways that faith fuels who he is in secular work environments, influencing how he leads, how he drives culture, and how he lives his core values.

4 Tips to Sharing Your Faith With Remote Teams

One entrepreneur shares how she embraces the marketplaces as her place of ministry and works excellently, generously, and kindly for the glory of God. It’s never too late for the people around us to hear the word of God.

From Striving to Calling: How to Make Work More Meaningful

“Selling my business and taking home $100M was the worst decision I ever made,” a well-known entrepreneur once said. I was floored. How could this be?

3 Fundamental Truths for Putting God at the Center of Your Business

What does it look like to put God at the center of your business? When we see our workplace as an opportunity to bring hope and life to people that desperately need it, it changes everything. Our job is to live faithfully and obediently wherever He has placed us.

How to Be a Great Car Salesman – Two Traits All Business People Must Have

Let me introduce you to Tim. Tim was the ideal model for anyone asking how to be a great car salesman. And he exemplified the two traits I think all business people should have regardless of industry.

God Can Use You. Embrace the 3 Postures of Calling

Every entrepreneur is custom-created for a purpose. But how, in a world so full of noise and distraction and fear, do we go about staying on (or getting on - let’s be honest) the road we’re called to travel?

Mental Wellness: The Unspoken Pandemic

We are facing a pandemic of not only mental illness (which is a severe problem) but also an even bigger one of mental wellness. How can soul care serve us in this arena?

Insightful Business Wisdom From the Bible, Research, and Business Case Studies

At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices.

Faith Driven TeamMarch 11, 2021Blog Contributor

Paul Michalski

Founder of Integrous LLC

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