Since 1996, Jim McCormick has assisted organizations including AFLAC, Accenture, Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Rutgers University, The Clorox Company, Siemens, Verizon, many associations and emerging companies to improve performance with his presentations, seminars, coaching, books and consulting.

Jim's insights on performance improvement have been featured in publications including Investor's Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly, Presentations Magazine and the San Francisco Business Times.

Jim has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Jim served in Washington, D.C. as a member of a Presidential administration where he ultimately became the first non-attorney in the history of the U. S. Department of Energy to serve as Special Assistant to the General Counsel.

Jim has extensive business experience and advanced in his career to become the Chief Operating Officer of the fifth largest architectural firm in the United States. He teaches executive level management courses at San Jose State University.

Jim is a double skydiving World Record holder having twice been a part of the largest freefall formation ever built. He skydived to the North Pole as a member of an international expedition and is one of 400 Professional Exhibition Skydivers in the United States.

Jim celebrated his 40th birthday by doing 40 skydives - in one day. On his 45th, it was 45 jumps all in one day. He has done some of the highest altitude civilian skydives in the world - from 31,000 feet. As a skydiving instructor, Jim helps people overcome their fears as he takes them through their first jump experience.

• Keynote Presentations : Jim's customized presentations center on the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone, taking thoughtful and constructive risks and responding effectively to fear. His keynote presentations give audiences the tools to effectively move out of their comfort zone - the first critical step in moving to a new level of professional and personal performance. Jim's highly motivational presentations entertain while they inspire and include dramatic still and video images.
  
  
• Half-Day Seminars : In his interactive seminars, Jim helps audience members anonymously identify the fears and challenges they're facing, the positive risks and constructive steps that will move them forward and the rewards of taking those risks and steps. This information, coupled with proven methods of reducing the debilitating effects of fear, combine to provide each attendee with a confidential Personal Action Plan for successfully taking constructive risks.
  
  
• Follow-Up Implementation Workshops : These interactive workshops help people who have been exposed to the constructive risk-taking message of Jim's keynote presentation to apply it immediately. Each person leaves with a Personal Action Plan for taking Jim's message and applying it to achieve improved professional performance and personal satisfaction.
  
  
• After Dinner Presentations : After Dinner Presentations present special challenges. They need to be fun, entertaining, humorous and yet still inspire. After a long day and a full meal your audience is likely in a different mode and perhaps a bit less attentive. For this reason, many professional speakers will not accept after dinner engagements. Jim will! When Jim serves as the after dinner speaker, he makes modifications to his presentations to keep them light and "crank up the entertainment meter." These changes, plus the dramatic photo and video images that supplement all of Jim's presentations, make for a great result. That's what clients report!
  
  
• Custom Designed Sessions : On a selected basis, Jim will design Custom Sessions to help you address the specific opportunities and challenges facing your people and organization. Clients have found that Jim's extensive business experience and objective perspective as an outsider can be powerful in helping them break through to higher levels of performance and effectively address vexing issues. While Jim always desires to help organizations improve performance, he will not try to help you address every issue. Jim is discerning in taking on Custom Sessions and will not venture out of his areas of expertise. When your opportunities and challenges lie beyond Jim's expertise, he will gladly refer you to qualified colleagues.