Jim McCormick is an accomplished business executive and a world-class skydiver. He has been retained by organizations including AFLAC, Accenture, Bank of America, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, PepsiCo, Rutgers University, The Clorox Company, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, Wells Fargo, numerous national, regional and state associations and many emerging companies that are not yet household names.

Jim's corporate experience includes three executive level positions in the real estate and construction industry including Chief Operating Officer of the fifth largest architectural firm in the United States. He has taught executive level management courses at San Jose State University.

Jim has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. He 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 and was awarded the department's Exceptional Service medal.

Jim has over 2,800 skydives and holds five skydiving World Records. He was a member the American delegation to World Team 2006, the largest multi-national sports team ever assembled to pursue a common goal. World Team skydivers representing thirty five countries successfully established a new world record by building the world's largest skydiving formation in the skies above Udon Thani, Thailand. The record was set when 400 World Team skydivers exiting five Royal Thai Air Force C-130 Hercules military transports flying at 25,000 feet and linking together into a precisely designed formation in the colors and pattern of the Thai flag that existed for only 4.25 seconds.

Jim was also a member of an international expedition that skydived to the North Pole. He is one of 400 Professional Exhibition Skydivers in the world, has done as many as 45 skydives in one day and completed some of the highest altitude civilian skydives in the world from 31,000 feet.

All of Jim McCormick's presentations are customized to be responsive to the challenges and opportunities facing the audience members. Woven into each presentation are the audience-specific constructive risks and steps that will lead audience members to improved personal and organizational performance. Jim's inspirational speeches, training seminars, and presentations are customized through a process of a brief questionnaire and a few concise telephone interviews.

• Keynote Presentations : As a keynote speaker, Jim McCormick's motivational presentations focus on balancing opportunity and risk to improve performance - the core benefit of effective risk analysis, whether personal or organizational. Jim's five skydiving World Records and experience in skydiving to the North Pole are central to his inspirational speeches. Being a former Chief Operating Officer and holder of both MBA and engineering degrees sets him apart as a keynote speaker and significantly enhances Jim's ability to make his presentations meaningful to your audience. Topics include:
      - Exceed Terminal Velocity!™ - Excelling in Any Setting
      - The Eight Stages of Flight - Earning Your Own World Record
      - Are You at Full Throttle or the Will of the Wind? - Taking It to the Next Level
  
  
• Half-Day Seminars : Jim's interactive half-day seminars give audience members a chance to roll up their sleeves and put some serious effort into performance improvement.
  
  
• Follow-Up Implementation Workshops : These interactive workshops help people who have been exposed to the message of Jim's keynote presentation 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. They will also have the opportunity to experience some or all of the elements offered in Jim's Half-Day Seminars, depending on your desired outcome for the workshop and the length of the session.
  
  
• 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!
  
  
• Master of Ceremonies - As an accomplished professional speaker, Jim can help you add a professional flair to your meeting by serving as your Master of Ceremonies. In this role, Jim establishes a consistent tone for your meeting, ensures continuity and improves timeliness, fills in those awkward dead spots that can occur between sessions and introduces your speakers and sessions graciously and professionally. Using Jim as your Master of Ceremonies is particularly effective when he is also one of your meeting presenters.
  
  
• 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.