Lasting Growth Is Equal Parts Vision, Strategy & Execution
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
At Deodar Enterprises, we help our clients build strategies that can support vision, purpose, and operational excellence. If you believe in your company's potential, we are here to support your efforts to meet your organization's full potential.
Do You Need To Evolve Your Operations?
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
Refining operations is always easier said than done. Our leadership has a proven track record of creating record breaking performance and growth across industries. Let us help you see your operations from a fresh perspective and offer insights on ways to grow and evolve.
Do You Need A More Effective Voice?
Are You Leading With A Clear Vision?
Do You Need A More Effective Voice?
Premier communication strategies are where vision meets operations. Consumers seek authenticity, relevancy, and relatability more than ever before. Your brand promise must match what your company can actually deliver on. Let us help you bring your messages into focus so your communications connect with impact.
Principal
Paul Baribault
Paul Baribault is a transformational CEO who has led mission-driven enterprises through significant growth, operational turnaround, and strategic repositioning. With decades of executive leadership across high-impact and complex organizations, he leverages a unique blend of business acumen, consumer insight, and innovative strategy in his approach. He is recognized for driving enterprise value, reputational growth, and brand excitement, while building scalable infrastructure, and delivering enduring financial and cultural results.
Mr. Baribault served as President and CEO of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) from 2019 to 2025. He enhanced SDZWA's global conservation mission and public engagement, rebranded and restructured it to become a conservation-focused institution and drove the largest investments in infrastructure and conservation programs in its history. He grew total assets, reduced liabilities, increased annual revenue, and increased net annual revenue available to fund the nonprofit mission by record amounts. His leadership transformed almost every key aspect of the organization, setting it up for the future.
He secured the return of giant pandas to the United States, the first pandas to enter the country in over two decades. His leadership aligned the core mission with operational excellence, and premier communications strategies, which helped SDZWA grow its media reach by more than 1,400%, resulting in direct increases in revenue. He further increased SDZWA’s role as a key economic engine for the San Diego region - generating $2.4B in annual economic value, supporting over 20,000 regional jobs.
Prior to 2019, Mr. Baribault served as a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios overseeing global theatrical marketing and brand development for Disney Animation, Pixar, The Muppets, and Disneynature. He managed and led cross-functional teams resulting in the most successful decade in animation film history. As General Manager of Disneynature, Baribault launched 14 films, delivering significant conservation outcomes through strategic partnerships with leading conservation organizations, governments, and sponsors, resulting in millions of trees planted and millions of acres protected.
Mr. Baribault currently serves as a Director of The Explorers Club in New York City, and as a Trustee of the Academy of Our Lady of Peace High School. His previous board leadership roles include Chair of the Board of the Jane Goodall Institute, Executive Committee Member of Jackson Wild, and Executive Chair of the Aspen High Seas Initiative at the Aspen Institute. He also served as a Trustee of Flintridge Preparatory School and Board Member of USA Luge.
His leadership has been recognized, receiving three CEO of the Year Awards. Fast Company recognized SDZWA under his leadership as one of the “Most Innovative Companies” in the world and a “Brand That Matters.” Forbes recognized SDZWA twice as one of “America’s Best Midsize Employers,” during his tenure.
Baribault regularly speaks as a guest MBA lecturer at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and at the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an MBA from University of Southern California.
A former elite athlete, Baribault competed on the U.S. National Luge Team and was an alternate for the 1994 Olympic Team. He is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), San Diego Chapter, and a member of the Chief Executives Organization (CEO).