He has had particular success in project implementation, especially in helping business and project teams mature quickly into high-performing entities. Jim’s strong people skills and long corporate experience make him a highly effective executive coach who has helped dozens of senior executives achieve stellar results.

Jim began his career as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, working as a project officer with civilian contractors on large flood-control initiatives and disaster-relief efforts. After leaving the military, he went to work for a division of Johnson & Johnson, where he held leadership positions in manufacturing, national planning, and major projects.

After ten years with Johnson & Johnson, he moved to the Philips Lighting Company. There, as logistics director, along with his day-to-day P&L responsibilities, he successfully led a critical re-engineering project to optimize the company’s nationwide distribution-center network while improving the efficiency of order fulfillment, taking on new customers, and significantly reducing costs. Later, when selected by Benjamin Moore & Company as its director of logistics, Jim led that company’s North American order-fulfillment process, as well as major mission-critical projects for improving customer satisfaction.

Jim later pursued his entrepreneurial aspirations and became an equity partner and senior vice president for a regional office-supply company, where he led operations for the company and prepared it for its eventual sale to a much larger entity.