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Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost Management consultants, Authors and Strategic thinkers on Change and Leadership.

His book Blindsided! is an International bestseller. It teaches business people how to identify the early warning signs, how to put systems in place to prevent your organization from being blindsided and how to strategically blindside your competition.

Jim's second book, The Learning Paradox, was nominated for the National Business Book Award and appeared on numerous bestseller lists. Books for Business ranked it as one of the top 10 business books in all of North America. The Learning Paradox argues that “job security” as we knew it is gone and that individual and organizational security is now based on learning, changing and coping with uncertainty.

He was also the co-author of national bestseller The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada. Jim writes for a number of publications, including the Globe and Mail, Profit magazine and Backbone magazine, which is distributed with the Globe and Mail six times a year, providing business people with tools to enhance the way they do business in Canada’s New Economy.

His new book, A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste, will be published in 2010. It presents hundreds of case studies showing how environmental leadership can drive profitability and improve the bottom line, especially during recessionary times. The book draws on his experience consulting with governments, property developers and companies such as Wal-Mart and Cleantech on green issues. It also looks at the fundamental drivers that will ensure the continuation and acceleration of the trend of corporations going green, such as the price of oil and the rapid growth of the green consumer segment.

He has 20 years of experience as a professional speaker and consultant, and speaks internationally at more than 40 conferences a year.

Presentations Include:

• Blindsided
• Green is Green
• Strategic Planning and Creating a common mission and vision.
• Leadership and Change Management
• Customer relationship management (CRM)
• Future Trends and eLearning
• Innovation, Creativity and Change
• Environmental leadership and Energy efficiency
• Creating Learning Organizations

He is one of the first seven Canadians personally trained by Al Gore to present the slide show for the award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

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