Jim Harris Biography
 

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

Workshops on:
• 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.

White paper: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/oiw03017usen/OIW03017USEN.PDF
Video highlights: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1815820799?bctid=1827939661