Jim Harris is a one of North America’s
foremost management consultants, authors and thinkers on change
and leadership. Association magazine ranked him as one of the nation’s
top ten speakers. As a management consultant Jim speaks internationally
and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams, focusing
on the most pressing issues:
• Innovation & Creativity
• Leadership & Change
• Blindsided!
• Sustainability
• How Going Green is profitable
• Creating Learning Organization
• Customer Relationship Management
• Customer Service
• Technology & Trends
• Strategic planning amid complexity
• Creating Common Mission/Vision
• Teamwork
Mr. Harris’ clients include Association of Research Libraries,
Barclays Bank, Certified Management Accountants, Cleantech, Columbia
Tristar Pictures, Deloitte & Touche, European Snack Food Association,
Glaxo Wellcome, IABC, IBM, IEEE, International Council of Shopping
Centers, Johnson & Johnson, MasterCard, Munich Re, NEC, Novartis,
Soc. of Professional Engineers, Sybase, TNT Worldwide Express, the
UK Cabinet Office and Zurich.
Jim’s new book, How Sustainability can Save Business, to
be published in the fall of 2013, or the spring of 2014, presents
hundreds of case studies of how environmental leadership drives
bottom line profitability by cutting cost, raising revenue and mitigating
risk.
Mr. Harris’ white paper for IBM on Green IT* details how
IT organizations can significantly reduce energy use through virtualization.
Jim has consulted with governments, Cleantech and property developers
on sustainability. He was one of the first seven Canadians personally
trained by Noble Laureate Al Gore in Nashville to give An Inconvenient
Truth presentations.
His last book, Blindsided! is published in 80 countries worldwide.
Blindsided! is a #1 international bestseller – having hit
the top spot on the Financial Times of London’s European Edition
of Best Business Books. Blindsided has been named one of the best
business books of the year by a number of organizations and Soundview
Executive Summaries sent a summary to 80,000 executives worldwide.
Blindsided! examines why companies and whole industries are being
blindsided; How can decision makers identify early warning signs?
How can leaders put in place systems and structures that will prevent
their organizations from being blindsided? And then knowing all
this, how can you blindside your competition?
Mr. Harris’ second book, The Learning Paradox, was nominated
for the National Business Book Award, and has appeared on numerous
bestseller lists. Books for Business ranked it as one of the top
10 business books in all of North America. There are now over 40,000
copies in print. The Learning Paradox argues that “job security”
as we knew it is gone. Individual and organizational security is
now based on learning, changing and coping with uncertainty. Paradoxically
these are what we as adults fear most!
Mr. Harris co-authored the national bestseller The 100 Best Companies
to Work for in Canada – selling 50,000 copies. As a management
consultant, Mr. Harris works with leading businesses, Fortune 500
companies, and organizations aspiring to join these ranks. From
1992-1996 he represented the Covey Leadership Center in Canada –
teaching Dr. Stephen Covey’s work, The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People to clients.
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