The RIGHT FIT for companies looking for:

• Effective alignment of human resource processes & programs with strategic goals and objectives.
   

• Improved organizational functioning, goal clarity, accountability, and performance focus.
   

• Effective resolution of “people issues” associated with major organizational change  (i.e., merger/acquisition, downsizing, rapid growth, business process transformation).
   

• Improved recruitment, selection, and retention strategies.
   

• Development of capable organizations, leaders and effective work teams.

Experience

Jim has seasoned experience as an organizational change consultant, change agent, and executive. He has assisted numerous clients develop the organizational properties and capabilities required to achieve their strategic visions and goals. In addition, he has assisted other organizations build strategically focused and highly successful human resource management programs by introducing forward thinking approaches to people management issues.

Jim’s experience extends over a diverse mix of clients including those in the manufacturing, design and construction, professional service, healthcare, finance, education, human service, and not-for-profit sectors. In addition to using his extensive experience to advise clients regarding effective organization planning and design, he has gained special expertise in change management, business process transformation, staff recruitment, selection & retention, compensation & reward, performance management, and human resource regulatory and compliance issues.

Before starting JTSA in 2001, Jim was associated with several leading professional service firms including Ernst & Young, LLP, Hay Management Consultants, and First Transitions, Inc.

Education/Accreditation

His educational preparation includes a B.A. in Psychology from Saint Louis University and a M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Illinois State University.  He also completed extensive post-graduate work at the Industrial Relations Center of the University of Minnesota specializing in Organization Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Jim has earned lifetime certification as a “Senior Professional in Human Resources” (SPHR) awarded by the Human Resource Certification Institute.

Teaching/Training

Throughout his career Jim has also been an active teacher and speaker.  He currently teaches classes in Organizational Change Management and Human Resource Management at the University of California-Irvine. Previously he served on the faculties of Roosevelt University, Illinois State University, the Chicago Institute for Financial Management, and the University of Phoenix. 

Speaker/Author

Jim is an entertaining and gifted speaker who presents regularly to executive, trade and professional groups within Southern California.  If you would like more information on the topics he frequently addresses, or to contact Jim to be a speaker for your group, please Click Here. 

He has also been a featured speaker for the Louisiana Hospital Association’s annual conference and a keynote speaker for the Annual Conference of the Southern Management Association (American Academy of Management). Finally Jim has authored several articles on organization management and is a contributing author to a graduate-level textbook entitled The Handbook of Human Resource Management (Blackwell Publishers, 1995). 

Leadership

Jim’s career has also included active involvement in leadership & governance. He has served on the Board of Directors for several organizations as well as providing consultation, advice and service to the Boards of other organizations.