For
over 25 years Jim Clemmer's practical leadership
approaches have been inspiring action and achieving
results. His keynote presentations and
workshops/retreats, five bestselling books, columns,
and newsletters have helped hundreds of thousands of
people worldwide. Jim is a popular columnist and a
regular guest on radio and television programs. He
is listed in half a dozen Canadian, American, and
international Who's Who directories. Among his many
achievements, he's especially proud of tripling the
size of his forehead!
The VIP Strategy: Leadership Skills for
Exceptional Performance was Jim's first book. It
became a Canadian bestseller and was published in
Europe and Japan. His second book,
Firing on All
Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for
High-Powered Performance, was both a
Canadian and an American bestseller with over
100,000 copies sold. Jim's third book was
Pathways to Performance:
A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and
Your Organization. His next book � focused
on personal growth/leadership � was
Growing the Distance:
Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family
Success. Based on the popularity of the
approach and leadership framework in Growing the
Distance, Jim's most recent work is a companion
book entitled The
Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and
Organization Success. Leadership guru,
Warren Bennis, says "If you're looking for a book
that illuminates the topic of leadership in a
useful, readable, and lively way, this is it."
During the last 25 years he has delivered over
two thousand customized keynote presentations,
workshops, and retreats, as well as consulted to and
coached executive teams in hundreds of major
companies, the public sector, universities, family
businesses, and healthcare organizations. One of his
goals, on his many business trips, is to have half
as much fun as his family thinks he's having!
Jim holds the prestigious Certified Speaking
Professional (CSP) designation. This is the highest
earned designation in Professional Speaking. Based
on rigorous criteria and Client ratings, CSP is
awarded by the International Federation for
Professional Speakers to less than 3% of the
estimated 15,000 speakers in the world. He is also a
director on the national board of the Canadian
Association of Professional Speakers.
Jim writes and speaks from plenty of "hands-on"
experience. Applying the improvement and
effectiveness principles he teaches, Jim co-founded
and led The Achieve Group to become Canada's largest
training and consulting company. Both were purchased
by Times Mirror and merged with Zenger Miller,
Learning International, and Kaset, to form
AchieveGlobal. Prior to developing Achieve, Jim
established a very successful performance record
with an international water treatment company.
Starting in sales, he quickly became sales manager,
trainer, and the company's youngest general manager.
Jim lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife,
Heather. They have three children, Christopher,
Jennifer, and Vanessa.