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Jim Harris
One of North America's top management speakers, author of `Blindsided!'
Jim Harris is a one of North America's foremost consultants, authors and thinkers on change and leadership.
Association Magazine ranked him as one of the top ten speakers in North America. As a management consultant Jim speaks internationally and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams, focusing on the most pressing issues: Green is Green; Leadership & Change Management; Innovation, Creativity & Change; Customer Relationship Management; Future Trends & eLearning; Creating…
Jim Harris is a one of North America's foremost consultants, authors and thinkers on change and leadership.
Association Magazine ranked him as one of the top ten speakers in North America. As a management consultant Jim speaks internationally and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams, focusing on the most pressing issues: Green is Green; Leadership & Change Management; Innovation, Creativity & Change; Customer Relationship Management; Future Trends & eLearning; Creating Learning Organisation; Strategic Planning amid complexity; Creating Common Mission/Vision; Teamwork
His clients include Barclays Bank, Columbia Tristar Pictures, Deloitte & Touche, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, MasterCard, Munich Re, NEC, Novartis, Sybase, TNT Worldwide Express, the UK Cabinet Office and Zurich.
Jim's next book, GREEN means GRN, to be published in 2010, presents hundreds of case studies of how environmental leadership drives bottom line profitability. His 2008 white paper for IBM on Green IT details how IT organisations can significantly reduce energy use through virtualisation.
Jim was one of the first seven Canadians personally trained by Noble Peace Prize winner Al Gore in Nashville to give his "An Inconvenient Truth" presentation.
His major book, Blindsided! is published in 80 countries worldwide. It 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 organisations from being blindsided And then knowing all this, how can you blindside your competition
His next book, The Learning Paradox, was nominated for the National Business Book Award, and has appeared on numerous bestseller lists. The Learning Paradox argues that "job security" as we knew it is gone. Individual and organisational security is now based on learning, changing and coping with uncertainty.
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.
