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About Jim Clemmer

jim_clemmerPresident, The CLEMMER Group

Jim Clemmer’s Full Biography

For decades Jim’s practical leadership approaches have been inspiring action and achieving results across the globe. His keynote presentationsworkshopsmanagement team retreatsseven best-selling books translated into many languages, articlesblog, and newsletters have helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Among his many achievements, he’s especially proud of tripling the size of his forehead!

Jim has delivered thousands of customized keynote presentationsworkshops, and retreats, as well as consulted to and coached executives and 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!

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 Corporate 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 wrote a companion book entitled The Leader’s Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success. He followed this with “an edutaining case study” or work of leadership fiction entitled Moose on the Table: A Novel Approach to Communications @ Work. His latest book is Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide For Leading Yourself and Others through Constant Change.

The CLEMMER Group is Zenger Folkman’s Canadian Strategic Partner. Jim was co-founder of The Achieve Group (which became Canada’s largest leadership training firm) when they worked very successfully with Jack Zenger’s previous company, Zenger Miller. Zenger Folkman is the world’s premier provider of leadership research, assessment, development, and implementation programs. The firm is best known for its unique evidence-driven, strengths-based system for developing extraordinary leaders and demonstrating the performance impact they have on organizations. ZF’s powerful development system is outlined in their bestselling books The Extraordinary LeaderThe Extraordinary CoachThe Inspiring Leader, How to Be Exceptional, and Speed.

Jim is recognized as a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) by the Canadian Society for Training and Development. Jim has been Practitioner in Residence for the masters (MASc) and doctoral (PhD) students in the University of Waterloo’s Industrial/Organizational Psychology program.

Jim lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife, Heather. When they aren’t working together in The CLEMMER Group or traveling they are spending time with friends and family. Their three adult children, Christopher, Jennifer, and Vanessa, are all married, living in Waterloo Region, and now repaying their challenging teen age years with the cutest, smartest, and most delightful grandkids the world has ever seen.

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Jim’s Introduction
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Are you looking for a quick witted and engaging interviewee for your newspaper, magazine, or in-house corporate newsletter? For almost thirty years, Jim has been a popular guest on television, radio and almost every other type of media. Stop by the Media Center and let Jim Clemmer provide you with content that is as enlightening as it is informative.