Jim was elected leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2003 until the end of 2006 but he is also 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:

• Blindsided!
• Green is Green!
• Leadership & Change Management
• Innovation, Creativity & Change
• Customer Relationship Management
• Future Trends & eLearning
• Creating Learning Organization

Workshops on:

• Strategic planning amid complexity
• Creating Common Mission/Vision 
• Teamwork

Jim's 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, Green Means GR€€N, to be published in 2010, presents hundreds of case studies of how environmental leadership drives bottom line profitability. Jim’s 2008 white paper for IBM on Green IT details how IT organizations can significantly reduce energy use through virtualization. Jim has consulted with governments, Wal-Mart, Cleantech and property developers on green issues.

His prior 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. Soundview Executive Summaries selected it as one of the best business books sending a summary to 80,000 executives worldwide.

Blindsided! examines why companies and whole industries are being blindsided:

Polaroid went bankrupt, blindsided by the rapid rise of digital photography. And an 18-year-old has decimated the profitability of a $40 billion dollar industry. Shawn Fanning with the release of Napster has changed forever the way music will be distributed in the future. Today it’s Apple – ostensibly a computer company – that has become the dominant player in digital music downloads facilitating five billion downloads.

Blindsided! answers key questions:

• Why are companies and even whole industries being blindsided?
• What laws guarantee blindsiding will not only continue but accelerate?
• How can decision makers identify early warning signs?
• What systems and structures can leaders put in place to avoid being blindsided?
• And then, knowing all this – how can you blindside your competition?

Jim was one of the first seven Canadians personally trained by Noble Prize winner Al Gore in Nashville to give his An Inconvenient Truth presentation.

Jim's’ 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!

Jim also 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.

Jim attended special events at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2008 & 2009. Also 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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