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Speaking and Trainings

Jim Warner and other OnCourse associates speak regularly at corporate offsites, industry conferences, educational institutions, and association events.

Speaking Goals

Jim Warner and other OnCourse associates speak regularly at corporate offsites, industry conferences, educational institutions, and association events. We invest time with the event organizers to understand the group demographics and the specific goals of the event champions. Each event—from a 45 minute keynote to a multi-day experiential workshop—is then crafted to inspire and entertain the audience while realizing the organizers’ goals. For most events we:

  • Create a memorable experience
  • Stretch the participants outside of their comfort zones
  • Provide immediate take-home value
  • Inspire participants to life change

Speaking Example Topics

  • Courageous Connections / Authentic Relationships
  • Authentic Leadership
  • Empowering the Rising Generation
  • The Drama-Free Office (Keynote)
  • The Drama-Free Office (Workshop)
  • Navigating Transitions (Keynote)
  • When Having It All Isn’t Enough
  • Reclaiming Lost Energy
  • Exploring Life’s Second Half: Leaving a Legacy and Finishing Well
  • Facing Pain — Embracing Love
  • How Do I Feel Good Again? Recapturing Lost Energy and Passion
  • How to Face and Navigate Difficult Times with Courage and Clarity

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When Having It All Isn’t Enough

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Abstract:

We have our names on the door, the vacation home, and the envy of our peers. Our net worth may be well into the millions. Our spouse is visible and vibrant, and our do-it-all kids are headed for big things. Outwardly, we seem to have it all, but behind the scenes …

We spin in an endless cycle of obligations, lacking life purpose or peace. We feel driven to amass more wealth … because there is never enough. Our spouse and kids resent us for putting career ahead of family. We long for a spiritual connection, but don’t know where or how to begin. We have few friends or mentors who will tell us the truth. Our lives may look good on the outside, but inside we’re beginning to sense: I’m stuck … This isn’t working.

Jim outlines the “stages of stuckness” and presents the common symptoms, patterns and stories of leaders and spouses who are navigating challenging life transitions. He then paints the path out of the stuckness, built upon a commitment of realizing core-level life transformation.

How Do I Feel Good Again? Recapturing Lost Energy and Passion

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Abstract:

“Everyone views me as successful, but my passion for life is quite low. I feel slow and sluggish. I’m going through the motions in my work and in my relationships. I don’t seem to have any energy. If I’m so successful (powerful, wealthy, significant, in control), why do I feel so empty? How do I feel good again?”

Conventional routes to success often leave high-achieving people drained, disillusioned, and cut off from loved ones – even if they achieve their “goals” – because the conventional road bypasses the inner journey. True, sustainable aliveness, grounded in an inner peace, can only be achieved by self-exploration, a commitment to total truth, and the intention to reestablish the precious flow of life through us.

This session presents the common ways energy, passion, and joy get drained out of our lives, how to get them back, and how to amplify the flow of life into us, through us, and out to others.

Courageous Connections / Authentic Relationships

Duration: Full Day

Abstract:

The morning session will focus on how to lead with clarity and courage, especially during times of crisis. Jim will share the stories and concepts that form the foundation of his recent book on life transition Facing Pain—Embracing Love: The Map to Authentic Living.

After this entertaining and eye-opening plenary session, members will self-select into forum-like groups for experiential, high-impact sharing about their lives. To deepen connectivity within the chapter, members will form groups with other members whom they do not know well.

The afternoon session is a blend of life-sharing, experiential exercises, culminating in small-group discussions on the major issues we face as leaders today. These issues include (1) connection with our sense of calling or destiny, (2) connection with the key people in our lives, and (3) connection with ourselves.

The day will offer varying tones, from serious self-discovery and group-level authenticity, to playfulness and creativity. Look for a high level of participation and interaction rather than passive “learning from an expert.” Prepare to be stretched.

How to Face and Navigate Difficult Times with Courage and Clarity

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Abstract:

The majority of leaders we’ve spoken with and coached over the last decade are carrying a blend of anxiety, embarrassment, resentment, and paralysis related to the world economic and political uncertainty, and its impact on their businesses, families, and personal lives.

One leader describes his blur of emotions as “an annoying, low-grade hum that’s always present in my head.” These unexpressed emotions drain energy, distort thinking, and blunt the innovation and decisiveness required to lead during troubled times.

These are not “head” issues. They are issues of the heart, psyche, and spirit. And from our experience most high achievers are either inexperienced or clueless on how to navigate their emotional paralysis, and lead with courage and clarity. They are scared and lost. Most have never been here before. They need help and don’t know where to start.

This session offers specific, immediately usable tools for stilling the inner turbulence and reclaiming lost energy. In addition, the session will address:

  • How to go into and through your own fears to a place of clarity
  • How to acknowledge, grieve, accept, and move on from the losses (financial, dreams, relationships) you have incurred or will incur as part of the worldwide uncertainty
  • How to face and release the relentless inner voices saying “I should have known,” or “Why didn’t I …” that drain energy, inhibit relationships, and reduce productivity
  • How to be present for, listen to, and support others (family members, work associates, forum mates) who are struggling with their own emotional turmoil
  • How to enlist support for yourself (guides, coaches, advisors, mentors)
  • How to lead with integrity, calmness, and courage, when all around you are scared, blaming, or numb
  • How to forgive yourself and others, learn from and release the past, and focus with confidence on your go-forward plan

Leaving a Legacy and Finishing Well

Duration: Full Day

Abstract:

In the more than 200 YPO and WPO forum retreats Jim has led, the following themes
dominate:

  • What do these terms mean: purpose, mission, vision, fulfillment, calling, genius?
  • How do I make a difference in the world, outside of the business arena?
  • How do I move from disillusionment to destiny; from achievement to stewardship; from success to significance?
  • What legacies, beyond wealth, do I want to leave my children and my grandchildren?
  • I know what it’s like to be “in the zone.” How do I get this feeling back?
  • What is blocking me from stepping into my destiny, and how do I get through these blocks?
  • When all is said and done, what is my life for?

You have always been an achiever. Your philosophy of “short-term pain for long-term gain” has paid off. Your accomplishments have met or exceeded those you contemplated some 20-odd years ago when you launched your work life. It’s been a great ride and you feel you’ve had an impact. You’re pleased with most of the elements in your life, and you appreciate your tremendous good fortune.

But you still have energy. Regardless of chronological age, you’re young. Your peak is still in front of you. The relentless, burning “need to achieve” has you searching for ways to have an even greater impact. With your life at its midpoint, it’s a natural time to think about the past and plan the future. You may or may not be at a key “transition point,” such as a career change, the end of your marriage, or your youngest child leaving home, but you can’t stop wondering if “more of the same” will continue to deliver contentment and fulfillment in your life. By any measure you’ve been successful. But in your heart, mind, and soul, you ponder a greater calling, a sense of destiny beyond your current success.

We’ll explore these issues and yearnings in a confidential, one-day forum-like experience with your YPO peers. We’ll share, explore, discuss, and learn about the opportunities and issues surrounding Life’s Second Half.

Authentic Leadership

Duration: Full Day

Abstract:

This customized training is open to YPOers and WPOers who wish to enhance their skills in building small-group interaction and authenticity. “Small groups” includes your forum, your executive team, and your immediate family

This workshop blends forum best practices with Jim’s extensive work with YPOer executive teams. The workshop is 40% teaching and 60% experiential. You’ll have the opportunity to practice on “live” issues in your business or personal life.

The workshop will cover the following areas:

  • Inspirational leadership: encouraging and directing others to execute on plans and initiatives.
  • Team collaboration: sharing challenges, and brainstorming approaches.
  • Taking responsibility for your life: noticing when you drift into debilitating drama; tools for shifting back into a mature leadership position; specific tools for shifting out of blaming and complaining, or rescuing and enabling.
  • Surfacing and addressing difficult topics and conflicts. This is a foundational skill for all small-group and work-team environments. It is fundamental to authentic relationships. Participants will be coached in how to deal cleanly and directly with any issues that drain energy from the team or mire the organization or individuals in the past. In particular we’ll focus on how to initiate and conduct difficult conversations.
  • Making clean agreements and repairing broken agreements.
  • Offering and receiving feedback, criticism, advice. The primary take-home skill is the receiving of all forms of feedback with curiosity vs. defensiveness.
  • Appreciating and inspiring team members. Most work teams (and forums) do an excellent job of criticizing and challenging, and a poor job of appreciating and celebrating. When a goal is reached, they briefly acknowledge the accomplishment and then they set the bar higher. The result: a demoralized team where “nothing is ever good enough.” Appreciation, gratitude, and fun are a way of life for inspiring leaders.

This full-day training interweaves all elements of Jim’s Authentic Relationships model, tailored specifically to YPOers’ relationships (forum, business, family).

Empowering the Rising Generation to Make Their Mark in the World

Duration: Half Day or Full Day

Audience: Parents of young adult children

Abstract:

You watch with curiosity—sometimes anguish or confusion—as your young adult child navigates a combination of:

  • They are searching for direction in their next stage of life
  • They struggle to meet their own and/or parents’ high expectations
  • They have lost an identity
  • They are looking for new tools to navigate life independently and responsible without help of parents
  • They would like to strengthen their relationships with parents, siblings, extended family, work colleagues, sometimes even friends, and learn better ways to communicate with them authentically
  • They are uncertain on how to initiate or be in a loving partner relationship … or … to end a dysfunctional relationship

This straight-talking, experiential workshop lays out the costs you and your young adult kids are paying, and what you can do to help them become mature, responsible adults. And, how to come to peace in your parenting role.

Specifically:

  • How to best encourage and empower young adult children to realize their own destiny
  • How to be welcoming and nurturing without enabling or rescuing
  • How to repair strained or broken relationships with your young adult children

The OnCourse resources use riveting role plays to model the outward interactions, the inner angst, and deepest yearnings in the parent-child dynamic.

 

The Drama-Free Office (Keynote)

Creating Healthy Collaboration with Your Team, Coworkers, and Boss

Duration: 45-90 Minutes

Abstract:

Whether it’s water cooler gossip, an unsupportive boss or team leader, or an insubordinate employee, the last thing a business needs is drama. Unaddressed office drama causes infighting, petty rumors, meaningless meetings, and turf wars that drain energy and deflect the work team from the collaborative pursuit of important goals. Regardless of the type of organization, leaders often avoid dealing with drama in the workplace, or deal with it badly. 

At hundreds of off-site retreats, mediations, and coaching sessions, corporate transitions expert and award-winning author, Jim Warner, and co-author, Kaley Klemp, have witnessed the full spectrum of drama, including whiners, pouters, kiss-ups, bullies, mavericks, narcissists, manipulators, loners and martyrs. They determined that almost all of these drama-laden personas can be distilled down to the antics of four sabotaging roles. Diagnosing and directly managing these four roles is the gateway out of drama. 

In this entertaining, educational, and experiential session, Jim blends humorous and relatable case studies with proven tools for defusing office drama and fostering clean, authentic interactions. And—as a bonus—the tools apply equally well in personal relationships. Imagine: a drama-free office and a drama-free life!

The Drama-Free Office (Workshop)

Creating Healthy Collaboration with Your Team, Coworkers, and Boss

Duration: Half Day to Full Day

Abstract:

This interactive, educational, and experiential workshop focuses on the key concepts and practices for achieving and maintaining a drama-free work environment. Participants learn proven tools for diagnosing and dealing cleanly with energy-draining drama in all relationships—senior leadership teams, work teams, and cross-department projects.

Workshop Components:

  • A blend of visual-rich teaching, in-the-moment role-plays by the resources, and video-clip case studies
  • Transparent, forthright group interaction to foster and sustain enduring authenticity among team members
  • Specific tools for assessing and managing your own drama tendencies
  • Specific tools for assessing and managing the drama tendencies in others
  • How to “manage up” in an organization

The workshop accommodates up to 80 participants from the same organization or work group. Case studies are derived from pre-work completed by attendees and tailored for immediate relevance to the organization and participants. The workshop is a blend of large group teaching (e.g., identifying drama types and proven tools to address them) and breakout group discussions (e.g., “what would you do” reactions to case studies).

Navigating Transitions (Keynote)

Duration: 45-90 Minutes

Abstract:

This provocative keynote is for individuals and couples who are at a crossroads. At varying levels, all participants desire deeper personal awareness, a sense of meaning and passion in their lives, and more authentic connections. In addition, participants face some combination of the following issues:

  • I have no idea what is next in my life; I have only a vague sense of life purpose, mission, destiny, or passion
  • My career is my identity
  • I always have to be “on”
  • My life is being run on a treadmill
  • My marriage needs revitalization
  • I desire deeper relationships with people who won’t judge me
  • I need friends who will be truthful
  • I need to make peace with my past
  • I would like to explore the spiritual dimension
  • I desire greater intimacy with my spouse, family, and friends
  • I long to experience grace and joy

Reclaiming Lost Energy

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Abstract:

“Everyone views me as successful, but my passion for life is quite low. I feel slow and sluggish. I’m going through the motions in my work and in my relationships. I don’t seem to have any energy. If I’m so successful (powerful, wealthy, significant, in control), why do I feel so empty? How do I feel good again?”

Conventional routes to success often leave high-achieving people drained, disillusioned, and cut off from loved ones – even if they achieve their “goals”—because the conventional road bypasses the inner journey. True, sustainable aliveness, grounded in an inner peace, can only be achieved by self-exploration, a commitment to total truth, and the intention to reestablish the precious flow of life through us.

This session presents the common ways energy, passion, and joy get drained out of our lives, how to get them back, and how to amplify the flow of life into us, through us, and out to others

Facing Pain—Embracing Love

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Abstract:

This soul-searching session challenges participants to examine their approach to two grounding and seeming incompatible energies in life: Pain and Love. Based on Jim Warner’s book of the same name, Jim maps the life journey as a serpentine journey through several way stations (fantasy, comfort, numbness, isolation and confusion, suffering, forgiveness, surrender) in the quest for Authentic Living. We are challenged to resist delusion and accept reality, going into and through the darkness of our pain (trusting that there is light on the other side), while concurrently embracing love.

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Brian and Jill Moss

Brian and Jill Moss

The Couples Retreat facilitated by Jim Warner and his team was the single most valuable YPO experience we’ve shared in more than 6 years as members of YPO. For any chapter looking to forge deeper connections, Jim’s experiential approach is unique, effective and worth very serious consideration.

YPO / West Palm Beach
Rami Malhas

Rami Malhas

The “Empowering the Rising Generation” workshop is direct, real, raw … and transformational. Jim and Paul “held the space” masterfully as facilitators, guides, and coaches. As a result, Ramzi and I now have the tools and intention to navigate our differences and respect each other’s passions with encouragement and love.

YPO / Emirates Chapter
Wayne and Lisa Cooper

Wayne and Lisa Cooper

The “Empowering” program brought us close as a family and our early-20's children gained new insights for navigating early adulthood. Both young adults and parents, we urge you to attend this program. You will gain incredible value in just a few hours.

YPO Gold / Fairchester
John Donahoe

John Donahoe

Jim is the most effective facilitator I have worked with. His combination of experience, judgment, and empathy allowed us to achieve real breakthroughs.

CEO / ServiceNow
Hamid Moghadam

Hamid Moghadam

Working with Jim Warner was of tremendous value to our senior leadership team. We were able to identify and work through the obstacles that were getting in the way of our making and executing important organizational decisions. I am forever grateful to Jim for his work with our company.

CEO / Prologis
Ken May

Ken May

I was blessed to be able to attend a two-day Personal Transformation Retreat with Jim. I can honestly say it changed my life. Jim allowed me to look at my life and the direction it was taking through many new lenses. Being able to reflect in midlife set me on a new course.

CEO / Topgolf International
Pat Christen

Pat Christen

Living a fully engaged and joy-filled life is absolutely possible. Jim Warner's wise and energetic counsel with leaders and teams is exemplary. I have experienced firsthand the power of his work. He is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a transformative path.

CEO / Hope Lab
Bob Buford

Bob Buford

I have known Jim Warner for over 25 years. He has first-rate skills in all phases of personal development -- individual, corporate, and couples.

Founder / Halftime Institute
Jim Ellis

Jim Ellis

Jim's presentation to our San Gabriel Valley WPO Chapter was spellbinding for our members. The dinner conversation afterward was as animated as I have ever seen it, ringing with thoughts from the talk. A truly memorable evening for our chapter. It was outstanding – not soon forgotten.

Dean / Marshall School of Business, U. of So. California
Bobby Sager

Bobby Sager

Transitions are filled with opportunity. But you need to face yourself and be true. Jim Warner's intuitive, practical, and challenging guidance yields a return on investment that is beyond anything you ever knew.

YPOer, Philanthropist / World-Level Change Agent
Rob Follows

Rob Follows

Jim understands high achievers, how we interact, and what motivates us as people and business leaders. His work yields penetrating insights into what makes up and sustains a high-performance team.

Founding Partner / STS Capital Partners; climber of Mt. Everest and Seven Summits
Ken Shubin Stein

Ken Shubin Stein

Jim is world class!  And, he’s a triple threat.  He is very smart, very caring and very helpful.  With a rare combination of compassion and directness Jim works tirelessly to help his clients and friends lead better, more successful careers and lives.

Managing Member / Spencer Capital
Robert Mulderig

Robert Mulderig

Jim Warner has been a tremendous addition to a number of our YPO and WPO Forums. He has an amazing ability to get us to dig deep, seek the truth, and confront the destructive behaviors that hold us back from clean living. Jim is a warm, empathetic, great guy, and has become a friend in addition to a valued resource.

YPO Gold / Bermuda
Sabrina Kay

Sabrina Kay

Jim Warner cares deeply and helped me clear the fog in my life. A two-day retreat with Jim jump-started my personal journey of self-discovery and reflection.

Chancellor and CEO / Fremont College
David Stoup

David Stoup

Jim’s intuition is excellent and his delivery is awesome. The Personal Transformation Retreat is a ‘must do’ for anyone who wants to understand themselves and their relationships with others

Chairman / Weil Lifestyle, LLC
Sam Goodner

Sam Goodner

Jim Warner facilitated our YPO Presidents' Retreat in 2010. To say that our group is demanding and hard to manage would be an understatement, yet Jim received our highest speaker ratings of anyone in the past several years.  The general consensus was that Jim was both thought-provoking and delivered great take-home value.

YPO / Austin Chapter
Andrew Daly

Andrew Daly

My personal transformation retreat with Jim allowed me to explore my strengths and shadows in a focused, supportive environment. I returned much better prepared for my next great opportunity. Jim’s support has continued beyond the retreat, anchoring the effectiveness and value.

General Partner / Gore Peaks Investments, LLC
Scott Lynn

Scott Lynn

Jim Warner offers a wealth of ability and experience for navigating life's rough water. His unique ability to confront in a caring manner encourages each of his clients to address their critical issues, and to be accountable for the results. In the serious pursuit of understanding and growth, you will find no better guide than Jim.

YPO Gold / Rocky Mountain
Steve Lockshin

Steve Lockshin

Jim and his associates have been instrumental in our firm's development around the most crucial area of business – communication. Day and day again we put into practice the elements developed during our OnCourse training. I'm proud to say these techniques have also had a positive impact on my personal relationships outside of work.

CEO / AdvicePeriod
Melinda Hudson

Melinda Hudson

Jim's and Judy's guidance at our spouse forum retreat has inspired me to seek deeper and more authentic relationships, not only with my forum, but with everyone in my life, including myself!

YPO Spouse / Sydney, Australia
Roman Brunner

Roman Brunner

Jim's first retreat with us laid the foundation for us to go deep and to grow. The following two retreats cemented our relationships and strengthened the bond among us in a way that we never thought would be possible. As a moderator today in a new Forum in a different country, I am using Jim's tools to reach a sustainable quality and depth.

YPO / Zurich, Switzerland
David Barlow

David Barlow

Jim has been an inspiring guide to me through all of my life transitions, large and small, personal and professional. His vast wisdom and practical experience – especially having run his own business – helped transform my relationship with myself, my approach to my life calling, and the world around me.

YPO Gold / New England
Jim Barnett

Jim Barnett

Jim has had a transformational impact on my life. The combination of his talent, experience, and commitment have made him the perfect guide for managing both my personal and business transitions. With Jim's guidance, my life has moved to a completely new level of joy and aliveness.

YPO Gold / Barbary Coast
Dick Simon

Dick Simon

Jim's Marriage at Midlife program really helped Patty and me to improve and deepen our communication, think about and structure our next life stages, focus on priorities, and face our 'shadows' head-on. We have a much richer relationship as a result. An absolute '10' life-changing and enriching experience.

YPO Gold / New England
Frank Buonanotte

Frank Buonanotte

To say that my work with Jim has been life-changing would be an understatement; life-saving would be far more accurate. Jim's thoughtful guidance has created the opportunity for me to shift into a completely different life – one filled with joy.

YPO Gold / Southern Seven
Khaled and Shaden Bushnaq

Khaled and Shaden Bushnaq

Jim helped us in identifying how past events in our lives left marks that influenced our behavior and the way we now perceive ourselves, people, and actions. Realizing the root causes provided clarity to many issues.

Dubai / UAE
Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Crazy as it sounds, my first three-day retreat with Jim changed my life. With what I learned from Jim, I have a whole new framework to think about my life purpose, the relationships in my life, and how to be truly happy.

YPO / Barbary Coast
Chris Haase

Chris Haase

Jim has helped me shape a vision of how I'd like my life to turn out, how I'd like to be remembered someday by my family and friends, and what really matters most. He's also helped me piece together a map to that place. I now have a reliable compass for choosing a route that best suits my personality and value system. Our work together has been a real blessing.

YPO / Nevada
Arvid Albanese

Arvid Albanese

I had a successful business and a lot of fun, but my relationships were shallow. When Jim invited me to explore a ‘life beyond myself’ I was intrigued. I knew there was a missling link. Today, with Jim’s guidance, I’m a much more grounded person.

YPO / Florida
Brian Bouma

Brian Bouma

Jim was the catalyst for taking our forum to new depths of intimacy, authentic relationships with each other, and a level of bonding we had not experienced in our four years together. I strongly encourage any forum to work with Jim.

YPO / Barbary Coast
Lou Tilchin

Lou Tilchin

Jim has guided me to be in integrity with myself and those around me. He has helped transform me from an emotionally closed person to a loving, feeling, and emotionally open person. I have deep gratitude for Jim's wisdom, patience, and persistence in helping me reclaim my life.

Managing Partner / Jaffe Tilchin Wealth Management
John Kinney

John Kinney

Jim brought both magic and enduring value to our YPO forum retreat. The retreat was a true life-changer for me, and our forum leapt to a wonderful, unexpected level as individual insights were unveiled. We now have the mutual support and respect to sustain this momentum in our regular meetings.

YPO / Northern California
Reade Fahs

Reade Fahs

Jim takes YPO groups (big and small) to new levels. I have worked with Jim in multiple settings and he always delivers. He is a font of information, inspiration, and innovation.

YPO / Southern Seven Chapter
Ashok Melwani

Ashok Melwani

It has been several years since I attended the Transition Seminar with Jim, yet I can still hear my key lessons in Jim's own voice as clear as a bell. Jim guided me in both evoking the emotions I needed to explore and inspiring me to take action.

YPO / Singapore
James Vance

James Vance

Jim is an incredible facilitator. He possesses the strength of character for leading dynamic and high-powered groups into deeper levels of commitment and purpose. He has a unique ability to sense important moments and to boldly ask the tough questions. He then carefully guides us through intimate moments of self-discovery.

YPO / Nevada
Mike Abercrombie

Mike Abercrombie

At our Presidents’ Retreat Jim inspired 75 YPOers to address the challenging issues we had avoided. We grew closer as a chapter by walking a path of self-discovery together. When you are prepared to actively engage your chapter in a process to create lasting results, Jim’s your resource.

YPO / Los Angeles
Steve Fazio

Steve Fazio

Jim Warner is an experienced pro and knows how to migrate with the participants’ needs and score a '10' each and every time. I recommend Jim and members of the OnCourse Team for any group development work, conference planning, forum moderating, or life-transition dialogue.

YPO / Santa Monica Bay
Yung Wu

Yung Wu

Each member of our group had a deeply personal – in some cases life-changing – experience during our time with Jim at the retreat. In all cases, there was unanimous agreement that with Jim as a catalyst, we were able to achieve the most meaningful forum experience in all of our years together. Jim IS the gold standard for forum retreat facilitators.

YPO / Upper Canada Chapter
Michael Kiolbassa

Michael Kiolbassa

Jim's chapter-retreat theme of "Get Connected" re-energized our chapter and was our highest-rated event of the year. Due to Jim's impact we are now one of the healthiest YPO/WPO chapters in the U.S. with significant presence at the GLC and other International events.

YPO / San Antonio
Michael Kiolbassa

Michael Kiolbassa

After 22 years of working in and running my family’s business, I was making mistakes, frustrated, and worn out. Jim challenged me to refocus my efforts from working in my business to working on my business … and the change has been dramatic.

President / Kiolbassa Provision Company, Inc.
Freddy Daues

Freddy Daues

When I was 22 years old I joined a peer support group led by Adam and Paul. I truly feel lucky that I have had exposure to this unique dynamic. In an open environment with absolute trust, I have had the opportunity to be myself, speak my mind, learn from others that I respect, and get useful feedback on different aspects of my life. I can wholeheartedly claim that with support of this group I am taking full advantage of my life, living out my definition of success, comfortable with who I am, and confident in my path.

Denver / CO
Maurice Collada

Maurice Collada

Four years out of law school, I joined a peer support group led by Adam and Paul. Without the structure of school that I had known for so long, I found my approach to life more reactive than proactive, allowing certain aspects of my life to slip away. Although progressing forward in my professional and personal life, I felt a nagging sense of becoming unmoored. Within the structure of my forum, I learned to be intentional about where I focus my energy. After two years, I now have clarity around my sense of direction and purpose. My relationship with my wife, my family and my friends are also stronger because I am aware of and can openly communicate my needs and motivators. With the support and accountability of this group, I am confident that I will achieve a full life, well lived.

New York / NY
Loy Guang Wen

Loy Guang Wen

Adam, inspired me to explore my inner workings, affirm my desires, and to embrace who I am. I could always see the door, but Adam provided the guidance and motivation I needed to step through it.

Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia
Loy Teik Ngan and Chong Kweikee

Loy Teik Ngan and Chong Kweikee

Our next-generation family forum has given our three daughters and three young adult relatives the awareness, clarity and maturity to strengthen their sense of self and explore their unique giftedness. They have grown to be confident, centered young adults.

YPO / Malaysia
Chandra McClelland

Chandra McClelland

I first connected with Jim in my mid-twenties while juggling work, grad school, and living in New York—close to burnout and not quite sure how to let go of some outgrown relationships. I learned the tools to find my balance, take a step back from drama-prone relationships, establish authentic footing at work, and regain my drive.

New York / NY

Mark Wiseman

Jim worked with me on several occasions at my prior role as CEO of CPPIB in Toronto. With his assistance our senior management team became more cohesive and greatly improved our communications. Our authentic conversations led to greater productivity and a more enjoyable work environment.

Blackrock / Global Head of Active Equities

Scott Jaffe and Lou Tilchin

In two days of intensive work together, Jim guided our partnership to a soft landing during a period of conflict by helping both of us ‘stretch’ our thoughts, actions, and hearts toward one another. We also have a new set of go-forward principles that guide us.

Partners / Jaffe Tilchin Wealth Management
Ken Frieze

Ken Frieze

After our retreat with Jim, we had the tools and courage to address our tough issues. For the first time we were able to create a foundational partnership among our divisions, grounded in candor and authenticity.

CEO / Gordon Brothers Group

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