Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Transformative performance solutions & HR leader successful in translating business needs into pragmatic human capital and organizational solutions - improving financial & operational performance, organizational effectiveness and management decision-making; building talent, leaders, and performance improvement capabilities; & exceeding desired outcomes. - As part of executive teams, instrumental in driving over $2Billion increased shareholder value, by leveraging the power and energy of people, talent and organizations to achieve results, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, sustainable competitive advantage, and organizational capability. Leverages talent & performance globally, grasping and translating cultural subtleties. - Collaborative strategic business partner, coach, and consultant who delivers rapid time-to-value transformation, talent, and impact, in fast-paced, high change global environments, from start-up to turnaround. Deep operational experience driving results. - Deep breadth and depth of skills in all functions of HR leadership, strategy and execution, successfully demonstrated in diverse global Fortune 500 companies/industries – healthcare, high tech, financial services, telecommunications, consumer goods, manufacturing, energy, education, public sector, and performance solutions consulting, coaching and project management (including both union and non-union). - Demonstrates impeccable integrity and earns deep trust; builds diverse, effective teams with a culture of respect; nurtures excellence and motivates with vision, providing emotional connection that inspires action, engagement and commitment. MBA with savvy business acumen; high EQ; cross-cultural leader and team player; agile, nuanced systems thinker; embraces ambiguity and innovation; enjoys recalibrating business models and assumptions; self-reflective and resilient. - National speaker, executive coach, management consultant, and educator.
Owner / President of global HR, Executive Coaching, & organizational consulting firm. Assignments include performance solutions, executive coaching, leadership development, organizational transformation, employee engagement, strategy, staffing, HR services, and employee/labor relations. Clients include: VANTUS Medical Technology Corp; WE Energies; Froedtert Hospital & Medical College of WI; Milwaukee County Health & Human Services; Research In Motion (Blackberry); Fortis Health (Assurant); Milwaukee Women's Center; major client in South Korea; Frontier Corp/Rochester Tel. Most recently as the consulting Chief Human Capital Officer (CHRO), created the business plan for a global start-up organizational consulting company, utilized to secure start-up capital funding primarily from Asian and other foreign investors. https://www.linkedin.com/company/35641843/admin/
Recruited to teach HR, leadership and global business, and to develop new HR Major and 1st-ever Alverno MBA program within School of Business, internationally acclaimed as innovative leader in outcomes and ability-based, assessment-based teaching and learning. A specialist in global HR, leadership, strategy, MBA, and change management, as well as Asian, South American and women’s studies, Jim has traveled extensively internationally, including living/working in S. Korea - plus in-country research/study tours of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, including in-country meetings with major US corporations and with successful senior women - Part of MBA faculty design team that researched, benchmarked, created and implemented a uniquely innovative, discipline- integrated, ability-and-assessment-based, experiential, fully accredited MBA program, using a cross-functional approach to solving business problems. Focus all learning on five outcome-based cornerstones of achievement and competencies. - The five cross-functional required courses integrate core knowledge areas with skills, values and attitudes to enable graduates to apply learning and to build relationships that enhance organizational capabilities, results and agility. - As one of 5 faculty teaching in the program, my students develop their managerial competence in 5 Outcomes: Strategic Thinking; Execution: Global and Cultural Competence; Innovation and Creativity; and Ethical Managing and Leading. - I teach the 2nd core MBA course, utilizing frameworks of crafting and executing strategy; assessing self, organizations and the operating environment; financial intelligence; Emotional Intelligence; and Risk Intelligence. - Jim is also an active contributor to the internationalization of Alverno’s undergraduate liberal arts and business curriculum and to the development of women as leaders and active global citizens.
Recruited to drive growth for start-up Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) language training institute, including core curriculum, training resources, international teacher coaching, evaluation methodologies, and compensation structure/philosophy.
World leader in mobile communications; manufacturer & marketer of innovative wireless solutions (Blackberry). Established first-ever, matrixed SVP-HR role; global recruiting; coached executives and HR staff; initiated world class HR systems and administrative excellence.
A $500 Million diversified healthcare insurance & financial services company with 2,500 employees. Within complex competitive & regulatory healthcare environment, provided leadership of HR function & strategic planning for organizational transformation, key role in company turnaround via targeted executive coaching and teambuilding, & established foundation for “culture of ownership”, core competencies, & change management.