Paul C. Zucker, FAICP, (aka The Management Doctor) grew up in a small town in eastern Nebraska and now lives in San Diego with his wife.

He has been active in city planning, government and management since the late 50s. Since 1982, he has been President of Zucker Systems, a consulting firm specializing in organization, management and process studies for Planning, Building, and Engineering Departments.

He has consulted with more than 150 cities, counties and other governmental entities in 29 states, as well as numerous private developers and companies. His clients have included such diverse groups as private land developers, Holiday Inn University, Minneapolis School System, American Institute of Certified Planners, California State Coastal Commission, Price Club, the City of Los Angeles, Southern UTE Indian Tribe and Santa Fe Housing Trust.

His management contracts have included comprehensive management and organizational audits, customer service training, process and systems analysis, workflow analysis, management training, retreat facilitation and conducting focus groups. He has served as personal management advisor to department heads and has managed entire departments on a contract basis.

Prior to forming Zucker Systems, he was a department head for three major public agencies in Brookline, MA; Marin County, CA; and Tucson, AZ. He was also an Assistant County Administrative Officer for San Diego County, CA.

As President of a private nonprofit development company in California's Central Valley, Mr. Zucker headed a multi-discipline team with a focus on industrial and commercial development for low income and primarily hispanic residents. In this capacity, he created and managed five manufacturing plants and a movie theater. He also created a variety of nonprofit social service corporations including a health clinic, legal aid office and a credit union.

Mr. Zucker has served as a guest lecturer at the Universities of California at Irvine and Berkeley, California State Universities at Fresno and San Diego, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught planning commissioner practice and management skills for the American Institute of Certified Planners, has addressed national American Planning Association conferences since 1982, as well as 26 State conferences. He is the author of The Management Idea Book, The ABZ's of Planning Management Second Edition, The ABZ's of Planning Management, and What Your Planning Professors Forgot to Tell You, has articles published in numerous national publications and is lecturing throughout the United States and Canada on management.

Mr. Zucker has taught a comprehensive management course to over 700 top managers in 15 cities and counties and has taught management short courses to over 10,000 executives throughout the United States and Canada.

He was educated in architecture at the University of Nebraska where his thesis was chosen for the National Institute of Architectural Education competition. He received a masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a Sears Fellow. He also completed post graduate work at the Main Event Management Institute in Houston, TX and in management at the University of Phoenix.