Jim rarely gives "canned" programs or "rote" keynote presentations. Drawing on his three decades of experience and depth of content, Jim researches and custom designs each presentation to meet the specific needs of each audience. He reinforces and illuminates team or organization changes, development, or improvements with a highly recognized expert's insight, inspiration, and implementation steps.

Jim has delivered hundreds of customized keynote presentations. Here are some examples:

• A 60-minute morning keynote at a company's goal alignment conference for their top and middle managers followed by a closing keynote reflecting on the afternoon team planning activities
• An opening leadership keynote to franchisees of a major service company reinforcing the company's legacy, values, and convention theme
• A 75-minute keynote on "Lean Leadership: Building a High-Performance Culture" at a logistics management association conference
• An "edutainment" (high humor content) after dinner presentation on "Leading in Turbulent Times" for a business awards gala
• A 90-minute "Client Focused Leadership" opening keynote reinforcing a large HR group's conference theme of working together to serve internal Clients
• "Leadership: What it Takes in Tough Times" kickoff keynote for a healthcare leaders conference followed by concurrent workshops delivered by Jim and The CLEMMER Group associates
• Growing the Distance keynote as part of a Store Manager Development Program on "understanding yourself as a manager"
• "Building Connections" leadership keynote reinforcing key company messages, values, and competency model at an operations conference
• "Changing, Learning, Improving: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Team and Organization Transformation" executive briefing
• "Investing in Our Future Through Learning, Challenge, and Change" keynote reinforcing key leadership themes of a four-day residential management development program
• "Building a Bigger Difference" keynote for professional speakers, trainers, consultants, and facilitators
• "Together We're Better" two-hour closing workshop at a corporate university program
• "If It's to Be, It's Up to Me" presentation on personal leadership and change
• Opening keynote, emcee, and facilitator of a major two-day leadership conference featuring dozens of speakers, trainers, and consultants
• "21st Century Training Skills, Tools, and Knowledge" keynote at a training and development professionals conference
• "Building a Customer Service Strategy" conference keynote for senior managers and quality improvement professionals
• "Soft Skills, Hard Results" keynote to reinforce the value and pay off of training and development for executives, managers, and supervisors
• "Leadership in Building Changing Systems" opening keynote for a Human Resources professionals conference
• "Leadership for Personal and Career Success" keynote at an international conference of communication professionals
• Closing keynote summarizing and reinforcing "What Go-to Leaders Do" at a public sector managers conference
• "Quality...It's Your Business" opening conference keynote for tourism and hospitality managers and operators
• Closing keynote on personal growth for a career development forum
• "Conquering the Challenges of Change" solutions showcase for managers, trainers, and improvement professionals
• "Strategic HR Leadership: Building a High-Performance Culture" workshop for Human Resource professionals and internal consultants
• "Achieving Peak Performance and Thriving on Change" keynote reinforcing themes, values, and key messages at a company's management conference
• Opening keynote "The New Wave of Business" at a conference on entrepreneurship and innovation