Client Comments & Testimonials
Associations
Thank you for launching Leadership Waterloo Region's Non-Profit Series with a powerful and relevant session, 'Leading through Change'. Your evaluations were excellent! One participant commented, "I will remember how to narrow it down – the content was spot on. I appreciated the encouragement to 'help others stay in the learning mode.'" Your session was just what our social leaders needed during these uncertain times. Thank you for engaging our leaders, your presentation's audio was clear, and the slides hit the mark!
Jim is just as dynamic, engaging and thoughtful virtually as he is in person! His messaging is clear and targeted to his audience. We trust that our attendees will ALWAYS leave inspired, and pushed to think with new perspectives. Thank you for sharing your gifts with the members of Leadership Waterloo Region and our community.
Thanks for the wonderful workshop! I walked away with a renewed sense of being and armed with practical tools for life.
Makes you look in the mirror as much as looking at those around you.
Excellent, informative, refreshing, rewarding, inspiring. Confirms there is more than one table the moose is parked on.
Inspiring, building perspective, very helpful, a catalyst for good paradigm changes.
Highly informative, good gut check (personally and organizationally), building trust and teamwork.
This session is irreplaceable - you had to be there. I can tell others about some of the ideas and I can read the book, but today was so full of insight that it should not be missed.
This workshop and Jim's books provide focus, instill commitment and passion, and renew the spirit for both personal and professional development.
Thank you for the excellent day you spent with us. I still get positive feedback from the unit managers who enjoyed and benefited from the session.
Very well presented. Clear messages. Handout and excellent guide I can take back to the office to use with my staff.
Great quotes and presentation style - interactive, humorous, a real call to action.
Jim Clemmer's talent in demystifying the complexities of effective management are evident not only in his down-to-earth books but also in his speaking ability. He is dynamic, well organized, uses interesting visual aids and inspires a commitment to action among his audience.
Very insightful excellent information and tools for both personal and professional growth.
....participants gave you a 4.5 out of 5 for the overall quality of your presentation...participants particularly enjoyed your casual and informal presentation style, being in control in a group setting and the manner you were able to connect with the audience...
Jim's presentation style is informative, knowledgeable and motivational. His audiences leave his seminars and workshops well informed and with a feeling that their attendance was well worthwhile.
Jim just delivered our opening keynote on Leading @ the Speed of Change and the feedback has been fantastic! Jim was professional to work with from start to finish. He arrived early, prepared, and delivered a highly engaging presentation. Jim's strong kick-off set the tone for a great conference on re-inventing our industry. Jim is very personable, easy to work with, and easy to listen to.
I would absolutely, 100% recommend Jim to any company or organization
I would like to personally thank you for wrapping up our 31st Annual Conference with an outstanding motivational keynote presentation.
We've just received overwhelmingly positive feedback regarding your session. I must also give due credit for your ability to captivate an audience the morning after a very festive awards banquet - an audience in which many were barely "waking @ the speed of coffee" before you took to the stage.
Your professionalism, humour and positive energy were in abundance, and I'm confident that our delegates went home with a new perspective on the challenges they face in their work and in their day-to-day lives.
On behalf of the association, I thank you for helping make our conference an exciting, memorable and inspiring event for all in attendance.
Jim's presentation style is informative, knowledgeable and motivational. His audiences leave his seminars and workshops well informed and with a feeling that their attendance was well worthwhile.
Education
The Extraordinary Leader program is just that – extraordinary. The strengths-based approach to leadership development is very different and contrary to our long conditioning on gap-based learning and development. Once participants let go of irrelevant weaknesses and focus on what matters most, strengthening strengths, the impact is significant. The biggest difference I have noticed with this program is participants' energy to focus on development planning. When strengths align with passion and organizational need, people are motivated to implement.
I found The Extraordinary Leader 360 assessment and personal development process very effective. Its competency companion development guide provides a clear road map for building on one's leadership strengths. It is measurably superior to any 360 methodology I have previously seen and my only regret is that The Extraordinary Leader was not available years ago.
Educational, entertaining - great value for all employees, not just management. Jim is an expert in what he knows and delivers.
It was getting months of personal counselling in 3 hours. Fantastic sense of humour!
Jim is an excellent presenter. He is organized, conveys high energy and commitment to the topic and keeps session moving.
Jim offered me a fresh perspective. I thought it was going to be 'hokey', but his sincere delivery made it truly meaningful and enduring.
Fast paced and dynamic, relevant and instantly transferable to the workplace.
Very inspiring, made me think about my life. What kind of person I want to be and what steps I need to look at in order to get there. 'If it is to be, it's up to me."
Jim has a great presentation and delivery style.
Wonderfully motivating, direct, entertaining and informative.
Jim is a very dynamic, engaging speaker who provides valuable information in a highly informative and entertaining manner.
Great speaker, is interesting, funny, clear, motivational, very valuable and practical information.
National Conference on Student Leadership
* "Absolutely wonderful presentation."
* "Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your insights and wisdom with the group."
* "Very calm, relaxed approach to the material; very poetic; modern theory; receptive to questions; open to discussion."
* "Very motivational. Very interesting field of research. You've given me a lot to think about."
* "Great job, new info and suggestions were really interesting and exciting!"
* "Thank you for bringing Jim in – he was great!"
* "Jim was excellent! I would like to have had more time."
* "Really Dynamic and interesting presentation. Thanks for the valuable insight. I feel "the line" is something I will remember and benefit from."
* "Very insightful and inspirational. Will definitely apply what I learned here to my life and share it with others."
* "Loved the presentation. Found it relevant and interesting."
* "I loved the presentation, and found new information."
* "Incredibly insightful – confirming my beliefs about choice and inspired me to research the power of words."
* "Excellent stories and examples! Very inspirational."
* "Excellent presentation, great understanding."
* "The best! Very, very interesting – it is so nice at times to be reassured of what you want and that you can do it."
Very inspiring. I have a lot to think about for my personal life and I can't wait to start into my professional life to apply the ideas there.
Very good session, inspiring. Provides much personal reflection.
First time I have thought of leadership outside of the workplace. This has put leadership in a new perspective for me.
I received the evaluation report for the Canadian Agricultural Lifetime Leadership seminar this morning. Your session was one of the most highly rated of the entire four days. Congratulations, and thanks again! Here are the qualitative comments from the attendees: ‘Dynamic, combined professional and personal insights'- ‘Good, thought provoking' – ‘Focused me personally - my personal life and business; I see glimmers of clarity that I never had - extremely useful' – ‘Presentation style was excellent. Keep as a speaker for future sessions' – ‘A refreshing approach' - ‘Jim knows his stuff' – ‘Good condensation of a lot of current thinking on leadership and a good way of explaining it' – ‘Stimulating, obviously well-versed on the subject' – ‘Dynamic and thought provoking; very beneficial'.
Thanks for coming to Durham District School Board and delivering your two-day Leadership @ the Speed of Change workshop. Although I found your sessions intense and challenging to me personally, I was rewarded for being there. You confirmed to me that adapting and growing is the only option, even in the ‘Twilight' years of my career. Resting on my laurels and my past accomplishments is not an option! Keep up the good work - I envy you having the opportunity to help change peoples' lives – especially those of us in the educational field.
I now have a new mentor to add to my (short) list of people who have inspired me to follow my calling.
I'm enjoying your website and have made frequent use of your book and seminar material. Jim is a warm, extraordinary and inspiring speaker.
Thank you for a fantastic learning experience. Your enthusiasm and knowledge base have encouraged each of us to be more effective in our complex roles.
Your personable coaching style brought a diverse group of professionals together and resulted in a 'first' - three departments focused on a common preferred future... we appreciated your facilitation skills throughout the workshop in leading us to form our own conclusions regarding our management status and future needs. We have a renewed vigor and sense of excitement as a result of our exposure to Jim Clemmer and Pathways to Performance.
Our organization brought Jim in to help us identify the elusive and esoteric concepts of leadership. Our senior management team came away from the seminar with a shared and persuasive understanding of what leadership is, and how it can be exercised. We were particularly impressed that the process included a comprehensive way of diagnosing an organization's issues via the Transformation Pathways. Wedding philosophical learning with pragmatic organizational process evaluation really helped us anchor effective leadership to everyday work place issues. Jim exceeded our expectations and brought us a new and valuable way of leading our organization.
I am contacting you because of my deep respect for you as a person, your skills and abilities, and your years of experience in the training and consulting field. You have honestly and truly had a profound effect on my life. ...I was so impressed with you, the quality and standard of your work, and the importance of your message(s) that I helped convince my employer to invest the time and capital to bring you to our fair city. You did a terrific job.
Jim deals with the concept of leadership in a real and effective manner. He inspired me by prompting cues that give way to introspection and finding the leader within.
It was very informative in that my own experiences have been challenged in a concrete way where I walked out of the workshop enlightened and confident.
Very well presented. I benefited on how to become a better leader.
Great balance between the personal and professional. Most "business people" exclude personal growth, spirit and meanings. Finally there is someone talking about the important issues in being a true, effective leader.
Knowledgable, humorous, wonderful positive speaker. This session was a re-affirmation of my life's lessons as well as in my life's choices. Amazing afternoon!
Excellent facilitator who has engaged everybody with him to main topic, throughout seminars.
Excellent facilitator who keeps everyone focused and encourages participation to achieve maximum outcome.
Very skillful facilitator in managing a large prolific management team (+130) to a focused strategic agenda.
Brilliant. He kept the Advance moving in a lively entertaining way. Program was well planned.
Outstanding, energizing, motivating, interesting and enthusiastic.
Jim is a wonderful facilitator directly connecting what he is speaking on and who his is speaking to.
An inspiring personality - really guided me to open my mind to ideas to lead myself towards leadership role in my career.
Encouraging, puts everyone at ease and draws them out.
Jim has good style of coaching sessions, with deep knowledge on management and leadership. He has shared the required tips to be successful leaders in work as well as life.
Excellent presenter, very learned and informative. Good session with useful insights on leadership.
Exceptional and easy to follow, inspiring speaker.
Captivating and allows you to embrace information in a fun way, inspires and re-inspires.
Uses humour and realistic examples to have the course content more meaningful to me. Great concepts to add to my leadership 'toolbox.
Inspiring, motivating. You actually made me a believer of positive outcome and thinking.
Jim was very enthusiastic and incredibly resourceful. He has helped me better understand the opportunities I have in my position.
Down to earth leader, gentle realistic approach, inspiring.
We were so pleased to have you as our speaker today. Your presentation was full of valuable information, insights, and references, delivered in a fast-moving, interesting, and fun way. Thank you for your contribution to a very successful Administrative Leadership Retreat!
Financial Services
Very knowledgeable, personable, and engaging. Thank you for a remarkably energizing and informative session!
Engaging and relevant, Jim is a great speaker who speaks from experience and with authenticity.
Jim’s purpose, passion, example, stories, and experiences supported my learning.
Charismatic, positive, reminded me of my philosophy of life that recently I had forgotten or lost due to circumstances.
Compassionate, entertaining, down to earth. Challenging us to become leaders whatever our job is.
Jim has great enthusiasm and he has a great way of delivering the message. He really practices what he preaches.
Very impressive. Finds interesting ways to bring his point to his audience.
Enabled the group to clarify the concepts he is presenting. An excellent facilitator.
Excellent presentation, dynamic speaker, very well done!
He is very informative and helps remind you about changing my perspective. He gives a little push to put you back in the race.
Very easy to listen and follow. Good sense of humor. Very knowledgeable and inspirational.
Inspirations, well-worded, good at dad jokes. Jim's session gave me good insights and reminders on spending my focus on leadership.
Jim is an amazing speaker and make me realize that I have the power to change myself for the better.
Effective use of humor, useful and practical, moves action forward. Thought provoking, asks for input from audience.
Fabulous - articulate, content related directly to the audience. Storytelling/case study references made the content memorable.
My takeaways: Always communicate, not just give information. Stop, start and keep rules. Managers see people as they are, leaders develop them into what they can be.
This was an innovative way of presenting the concepts of addressing issues in a lively and non-confrontational way.
An inspiring session - full of practical hints and wisdom to help us all become better leaders.
Jim's down-to-earth, warm, and energetic style was perfect for our Executive Team's intensive workshop. We spent a very productive, fun, roll-up-your-shirt sleeves day together. We ended the day feeling energized and inspired to get going on the plans we had made.
Always enjoy your comments. Very inspirational. Step back and appreciate life. Be grateful!
Highly informative, greatly inspiring for change and development of organizations.
Excellent and thought provoking presentation.
A good presenter – thinks differently.
The session helped me to solidify the idea that positive thoughts have positive impacts at work, at home and anywhere else you find yourself.
Jim presented a useful tool for encouraging and implementing a high performance culture. Loved it!
Excellent presentation/facilitation, clear and engaging.
Excellent communicator, informative, keeps your attention, great understanding of everyone's situation. Very funny (and you can tell your kids I said that!).
Helped to reinforce previous learning and has helped to assemble thoughts and items which need immediate attention within our organization.
Fantastic/stimulating meeting, very uplifting. Thanks Jim, absolutely wonderful insights into our day to day lives as we enjoy the journey!
The course provided some excellent suggestions for becoming a better leader without overwhelming the participants with information. Jim is very motivated, knowledgeable and entertaining. This was a day well spent.
Jim's approach inspired our group to take a critical and constructive look at how we approach our strategy development and day-to-day operations.
Key concepts - excellent approach and presentation.
Practical and useful lessons in strategic management. Excellent reinforcement of sound and time-proven principles.
Very useful two days investment.
Jim relates concepts to reality - to our individual lives. There is a genuine compassion reflected in the material.
Informative and interesting. Felt like a story.
Jim really knows his stuff. I took away many excellent resources and tools
Very good core concepts with practical examples so that all can relate. Many ideas to take back to the office.
Very informative session! A lot of great ideas and tips. Packed high level. Good presentation skills. Great content.
Very informative session. Jim presents the info very clearly and with a good use of humor. I would recommend this session to anyone. Happy hunting.
An expert facilitator with the ability to deliver a highly usable set of tools into my leaders work kit.
Very appealing, warm facilitator - likeable - sets good tone. Practical insights/take aways. Relevant research/documentation throughout workshop.
Excellent, fast paced session filled with useful, easy to implement tools. Jim is an excellent presenter and very knowledgeable - high IQ and EQ!
Knowledgeable, inspirational, and fresh! A great message that everyone needs to hear.
He kept it true to life, amusing. Kept everyone interested. Used humor to demonstrate point.
The evaluations that were completed following your session for the CEAMS Association were scanned and are attached. 22 feedback forms returned:· 6 rated it 4 out of 5 - 27% , 15 rated it 5 out of 5 - 68% , 1 rated it 6 out of 5 - 5%. The reviews are very positive, with many of the CEO's rating your session as a 5 out of 5. I said it that day, but will say it again: Thank you for a very insightful morning that left the participants with practical tools to take home and apply. I can't count the number of times in this past week someone has referred to your presentation and specifically to 'keeping themselves above the line'. You really hit the mark for this group! I hope we will have the opportunity to work together again one day. In the meantime, we'll ‘keep navigating!"
Jim's keynote address kicked off our annual convention and provided a great start to our event. His message was thought provoking and down to earth with plenty of light-hearted humor. Jim was great to work with in the planning process and right through our event.
Humorous, entertaining, informative, knowledgeable. Jim helped me to better understand coaching employees.
Excellent, this workshop had a lot of meat for everyone.
Thought provoking, informative, interactive, well connected to his audience.
Excellent - top rate, ability to really connect.
I liked the way Jim used humor and engaged the audience in dialogue. My job has changed since a recent merger (not in a positive way) and this seminar helped me 're-calibrate' my attitude and reevaluate my communication style.
Excellent, funny, captivating, changing perspective.
Knowledgeable, real person, with real ideas, entertaining and real thoughts, suggestions.
Jim is engaging, funny and clearly well educated/researched in this field. I learned that perspective is reality and in order to change your reality you need to change your perspective.
Fantastic. Really changed the way I look at the things I do on a daily basis. This will help me succeed in my role in this business.
Jim helped to reinforce many facets of leadership I already employ, but also to encourage me to face my weakness and to try and improve.
Inspiring, well read, in depth knowledge of the topic.
Inspiring, well read, in depth knowledge of the topic.
Witty, entertaining and clear communicator.
Jim is a very down to earth facilitator with a wealth of experience that he shares with his audience in a thoughtful and inspiring way.
Good use of examples/interacting involvement. Passionate, inspiring and entertaining.
Healthcare
Jim is a dynamic presenter who uses many different sources to get his points across.
I am a tough critic of public speakers, and I can say, Jim was excellent! He delivered quality content in a clear, concise and entertaining way. I walked away with clear ideas on ways to immediately improve my leadership.
Engaging. Aware of current trends/issues. Content expert energizes group.
Engaging, easy-going, great use of visuals, excellent knowledge of material; research-based material is much appreciated and relevant. Jim encouraged group and individual participation and this was a good balance.
We engaged Jim to help us with some preliminary efforts to begin transforming our organization, which included reinforcing a focus on continuous quality improvement; leadership - how it involves everyone; change and the need for it; what culture change is about; and some work on identifying organizational values that will drive us forward. Jim kept the group interested throughout the workshop, and successfully integrated our quality improvement plan into the session content. Overall I have to say we were quite pleased with Jim!
Funny, entertaining, and focused (on delivering good/useful material). Good listener and facilitator.
Engaging, relatable, and empowering for all levels of leadership.
Engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
Engaging, informative, knowledge/evidence-based. A paradigm shift with regards to self involvement.
Jim is an excellent speaker and motivator.
Great facilitator and very knowledgeable - Jim's experience was very inspiring.
Strong facilitator, drew out good participation from the whole team.
Relevant, common sense, down to earth, great little nuggets/sayings.
Very engaging, easy to follow, interesting, and knowledgeable. Keeps the session moving, on track, engaging teams and participation.
I think Jim differentiates himself from other leadership facilitators by being well-researched. He doesn't just push a formula/model.
I really enjoyed both the content and presentation.
Engaging and entertaining - one of the best sessions I've been to.
Very inspiring - made me really think about my own attitude and how I react to situations at work.
Very informative in presentation with a fun presentation - many helpful suggestions.
Great speaker, engaging, knowledgeable, informative.
Approachable, kind, sincere, able to take what could be dull material into meaningful tools and skills. It was fun and useful. We have something to take forward.
You provided an excellent keynote address last week to participants in MHCA’s 2008 Fall Conference. Thank you for your insight, your preparation, and skilled presentation.
Here are several comments that appeared on our evaluation forms:
- Mr. Clemmer was informative and generated a lot of discussion regarding critical areas of focus we need to attend to. I thoroughly enjoyed the session and appreciated this presentation.
- Excellent! A different view on some of our frequent topics - I liked the fresh voice.
- Jim provided resources for leading organizational change that were provocative and pragmatic.
- Good content and good presentation. Three reminders - tough times create opportunities; stay above the line; communicate.
- Very informative. Opportunities for small group discussion were helpful to share experiences.
- Loved how interactive he was!
...we were impressed by your thorough assessment of our organization and its history and culture...you came prepared with a sound presentation, complete with simple exercises to allow the audience to discuss some thought-provoking questions...struck by how you managed to engage (her emphasis) all the managers (even the ones who are traditionally very ‘tough to engage')...it is rare to confer (by e-mail), on almost a daily basis with a speaker as distinguished as you. I have enjoyed the experience immensely, and I look forward to working with you again in the near future.
A plethora of information. One of the best leadership workshops out there!
Energetic, humorous, interesting, informative, inspiring. I loved your personal telling. Thanks for sharing an afternoon of reevaluating oneself, myself.
Jim engages the audience by being playful while at the same time gets the message across and makes it easy to remember.
Very engaging facilitator, wonderful example of presentation skills with boy language and tone. Great example for me to use when facilitating my course delivery, thanks!
Jim shared the wealth of his experience in an effective and well-paced manner. I judge the value of a workshop by the number of ideas that I walk away with and I have plenty.
Practical and innovative ideas to be implemented immediately.
Very entertaining/applicable. Exceptional! Enjoyed very much. Rated 10 on a 6 point scale.
This was an inspiration and awakening for myself. I will be furthering and expanding my education and learning plus putting some techniques into play.
Very dynamic speaker, personable and engaging, 'take home' tips.
Excellent speaker; great approach to a key topic.
Practical, reflective, motivating.
Good insight and practical ideas to improve ones ability to lead.
Good sense of humour. Keeps attention of audience Speaks in everyday language, makes its personable.
Extremely knowledgeable about so many topics. I could listen for days and days and never be bored.
He presents the abstract and heart stuff on a very easy to understand and apply way. This made me excited about my personal and profession future. Can't wait to share this at work!
Defiantly worth attending, an excellent overview of organizational issues.
Jim seems to know us - has so much experience to share.
Concrete, proven fundamentals.
Inspiring, entertaining while delivering essential leadership.
Very relevant information; motivational; applicable to healthcare management. Use of humor was appreciated and appropriate (really quite funny!).
Excellent presenter, empowering to make changes, funny, day went by quickly.
Jim inspired our group to talk to each other and make plans to continue the conversation when we get back to the society.
If you are looking for some ways to change your leadership ways, 'Moose on the Table' is a must.
Excellent, entertaining and thought provoking.
Great content. Makes you think about having those difficult discussions and how to do this.
Fast paced informative and real. Offers information to assist in personal growth.
Very useful information and motivating, makes me want to do a better job. Very practical tips.
Seminar that addresses 'real' issues and provides blueprint for real change.
Extremely enriching workshop from both personal and work perspectives.
Very informative, knowledgeable and entertaining.
Great analogies to use and remember points of the workshop to use. Will help me to review and reassess my staff's needs and how I can work on these effectively.
Jim is extremely easy to listen to and entertaining. Jim is very knowledgeable and can help focus on what is important and where you should emphasize your efforts.
Great workshop all together. Good use of humor. An excellent tool to help improve leadership style.
Excellent day! Good practical ideas based on principles and research. Focus on leadership vs. management was helpful Many 'tools' to choose and utilize. Resources for further exploration.
Confirms what I believe and would be great for Board of Director's and executive management in effort to establish corporate sponsorship on my belief that we need to "walk the talk" when it comes to our values and people.
Excellent presentation, very practical, authentic.
Great speaker, very human - I like your dad jokes. Inspired me to write a long overdue thank you note.
He is a great presenter with an important message.
Excellent, very worthwhile. Allows you to self reflect and assess myself as a leader and how I can improve - and lead others.
Excellent presentation of materials that can be applied with colleagues and employees.
Dynamic speaker, full of practical and humorous ideas, injects a sense of positiveness!
Engaging presentation style. Great analogies and models. Personable and Professional. Authentic!
Great two days! Like the style - soft approach, strong leadership, excellent techniques.
Helpful, entertaining, adapted program to meet needs of our institution.
Jim challenges you to examine in a very practical and real way that leadership is up to us.
Entertaining, keeps your interest. Practical, approachable.
Thank you for demystifying the elusive concept of leadership and for helping us to understand the concrete and meaningful ways we can improve organizational performance. Your preparation and approach made it all come together so well that it seemed as if you had known our organization for a few years...the transformation pathways provided incredible insight to enable us to move forward with changes that will create real improvements...I am confident that we can connect the valuable insights gained from our work with you and go into the future with greater foresight to change and improve the College in a leaderful way...the workshop surpassed our expectations.
Excellent - inspiring and practical - useful in all areas of life.
Jim took our enthusiasm, strengths, questions, and misgivings, and used them to focus our energies on where we needed to go as a team and organization. Our people consider his approach to be 'user friendly' - everything he says makes sense. Jim has a way of challenging the status quo in a way that doesn't offend, but creates opportunities for thoughtful reflection and meaningful vision.
...participants rated the session overall 3.7 out of 4 (with 4 being excellent)... there were many positive and energetic comments regarding your workshop and your charisma as a speaker.... ‘Well-presented, interesting, easy to follow - hearing about how you overcame negative times, and steps you took to improve your life were helpful and inspiring' ‘Good interactive session with lots of sharing and brainstorming.' ‘Jim was energized and enthusiastic throughout the day. That kept us going on a Friday afternoon in a warm, cramped room.'
I thought you should know just how excellent I thought your program was. I've been to many workshops (some good, some bad) - I took away some vital life practices from yours. You will be pleased to know that I've discussed the workshop with family and friends, and some of each have ordered copies of your Leader's Digest and Growing the Distance books and workbooks, so we're helping others to live above the line.
Excellent workshop. Highlight of conference.
Most entertaining. Good use of humor to 'drive' your points home. Good interaction and participation with audience and amongst attendees.
Comments on your concurrent workshop included; ‘I could listen to this speaker all day! Very animated – good subject material.' ‘Very glad to have heard him – given me a new perspective on myself and the significance of the attitudes and the behaviors I enact.' ‘Very engaging! Good down to earth suggestions with attitudinal changes – very important'.
Wonderful, complete and well packaged program. The best I have ever attended. A full package of growth supplements.
Excellent. Brought issues back to basics, and showed strategies and means to gain resolution.
After our workshop on Leading @ the Speed of Change, we provided the attendees with rated feedback questions. The rated averages, as well as the feedback and comments were outstanding. Every question revealed an average rate of 4.2 to 4.8 out of 5. Some of highest rated aspects of your workshop included ‘the speaker was well prepared and encouraged participation, ‘the content of this session was relevant to my work and I will be able to use what I learned in this session in my role as a manager/supervisor/team leader', ‘the content of this session stimulated my learning'. The participants rated the session overall 3.7 out of 4 (with 4 being excellent).
We also encouraged attendees to include their own additional thoughts, feelings and feedback. Once again, there were many positive and energetic comments regarding your workshop and your charisma as a speaker. I pulled a few out as examples illustrating the success of your presentation.
* Well-presented, interesting, easy to follow – hearing about how you overcame negative times, and steps to improve your life were helpful and inspiring.
* Good interactive session. Lots of sharing and brainstorming – strong team effort exhibited.
* Well done. Format should be used on a more regular basis to allow manager/supervisors to have input on other areas.
* Jim was energized and enthusiastic throughout the day. That kept us going on a Friday afternoon in a warm cramped room.
* Overall a highly rated presentation by Jim Clemmer
We have complied all the information are developing an action plan to address key competencies and the "elephants on the table". Hopefully our paths will cross again soon.
Very thought provoking, shifts your focus on what's possible.
Excellent real world examples; multi use of different learning tools videos, group work and discussion.
Well presented; easy to understand; excellent videos. Learning occurred effortlessly.
Very articulate and well thought out. Good motivational content. Lots of practical tools.
The simple and effective nuts and bolts approach to the topic and content is valuable and invigorating.
Very inspiring and motivating.
Very interesting and well-informed individual that understands the principles of leadership in todays environment.
Applicable to daily living - inside and outside work environment. Gives a lot of information in an organized and logical manner.
Informative, entertaining, provocative.
Excellent presentation and presentation style - good audience involvement.
Jim is a knowledgeable and skilled presenter. He engages his audience in ways that add value for the conference participants.
Good solid ideas to move forward with.
Entertaining, realistic actions that can be implemented to move transformation.
Best leadership seminar I have attended, I left wanting more.
I feel energized and ready to make changes.
Excellent, excellent seminar with materials and ideas that are simple and easy to model and communicate.
Really appreciate the story telling approach and obvious knowledge base and experiences.
"Excellent session, offering great tools to communicate and resolve issues/attitudes in regards to change.
Very inspiring and motivating. As a brand new manager I feel that I have been coasting along. This conference has inspired me and given me the tools to become a navigator!
Well worth attending. Great speaker and well prepared. Creates new and rekindled thoughts, humorous.
Excellent session, entertaining and thought provoking. Provides tools to become a better leader. It provided insight into myself as a leader.
Fast paced, dynamic, useful for all disciplines.
Highly recommended. Worth taking the time out of our busy world to step back and re-evaluate ourselves and our overall approach.
Had some doubts as I've attended some workshops in the past that were overpriced, over hyped and under-delivered. This one is the best I've ever been to - don't miss it!
Very genuine; focused, know content well. Leaves the participant with very insightful tips regarding dealing with staff and looking at one self. Instant 're-set' button for management staff.
Very educational, entertaining and helpful. It was fun and the best workshop I have attended thus far. 2 thumbs up!
Awesome presenter, keeps audience attention. Good visual presentations.
Funny, excellent tone of voice, believable, motivating.
Very informative. Walked away with tools to use daily.
Dynamic speaker and useful information to improve organizational performance.
Capturing presenter. Useful tools presented in a easy to understand manner. Easily adapted presentation to audience needs.
Provided a new approach to looking at challenges in the organization.
His knowledge is and feels real, something I could use as a leader, manager and living person.
Great presenter of very pertinent information. Will use my learnings everyday.
Incredible - very well done!
Brilliant. Should be a pre-requisite for all new staff within our organization.
I feel inspired to become a better leader.
Excellent - one of the best!!
The session was entertaining and info is easy to put into practical use. It will change how I do my job.
Fantastic - so much information, a total eye-opener for a novice manager, very inspiring.
Informative and provides follow-up material to add further learning.
This is not "Death by PowerPoint." The topics are well discussed with ample time for group input.
Gave practical examples. Good humor.
Effective blend of humor and knowledge in dealing with change.
Organized, intelligent, animated, knowledgeable, entertaining, information packed, inspirational, aimed at all levels of supervision/management.
Empowering - to know that you can affect change on any interdepartmental issue if you address it properly.
Very engaging speaker. Topic really spoke to me. Workshop was reinforcing for me!
Takes very complex principles/concepts and makes them easy to understand and practical. Easy to listen to. Engaging as a presenter.
Genuine, honest, no lofty thoughts but steeped in reality.
Very inspirational and helped me to strive to be a better person and to be a better coach.
He did inspire me to lead and to never take a trip to Pity City on the Bitter Bus so I will not wallow in my own mire.
He is entertaining and I feel like I am watching a show, I loved it !! He has an amazing way of driving you to do better.
Good use of Humour!! Excellent ability to get info across with story telling and relevant examples. Like the participative learning.
Considering the number of participants and extensive cultural background, very patient and must be having vast expertise to manage large team. He keeps the fire burning and I have got ideas on how to manage groups too.
Excellent handling of a very large group.
Skilled, experienced, patient, flexible but focused on the bigger picture and in producing results.
Insightful, knowledgeable, inspiring, motivation and energetic.
Coherent, well versed, charged up. Jim's build-up to the grand finale was very well structured.
Excellent speaker, humorous, entertaining and very encouraging.
Session was very informative and interactive. We did a lot of brain storming and learned quite a few strategies.
Believable! Inspiring!
Very energetic and motivating.
Natural, confident, eloquent speaker. Aware of his subject.
Jim is an entertaining facilitator and communicates the leadership topic in a humorous way.
Jim's an incredible speaker, he knows his stuff.
Inspiring and very motivating. Refocusing our leadership as an action of leading and not a position.
Captivating, able to hold his audience's attention. Inspirational.
Electrifying. I can assess my strength, weakness and leadership skills to follow.
Very engaging. Good information and relevant provided in straightforward way. Very effective and timely.
Inspiring; yet practical. Application in both in business and personal lives. Uses humor and participation in an effective manner. I can start applying my learnings today.
Very engaging - kept interest throughout. An excellent approach to engaging the guidance, develop discussion (provoking and thoughtful) and challenge self reflection.
I left with a whole new attitude with the challenges I face in both a professional and on a personal level. Motivating, energetic.
Engaging, entertaining, maintains interest, uses participative activities to good effect.
Jim has keen insight into what it takes to build a transparent and effective culture. His ability to translate principles into relatable and personal action steps is terrific.
Jim provided our leadership team with practical evidence based information that we can use to lead our teams. His passion and creativity inspired us and gave us lots of great ideas to move forward in our planning.
Awesome facilitator, engaging, informative, interesting - kept me captivated. This workshop will make a difference in making me a better leader by identifying and building on my strengths. Will look at a 360 different from now on.
I have read the book, "How to be Exceptional", but Jim made it come alive for me.
Knowledgeable, engaging, uses audience and is comfortable. At ease with content and with audience participation.
Manufacturing, Industry, Resources, and Utilities
Jim has facilitated a number of retreats with our executive teams and a strategy session with our Board of Directors. He provides a unique blend of leadership/culture development expertise and extensive facilitation skill. Jim tailored his approach to hit our objectives. He seamlessly moves our group from understanding to consensus to implementation.
I found Jim to be an awesome presenter with great leadership skills. I attended his presentation “Leading @ the Speed of Change” at one of our company meetings.
His presentation style is admirable; with a constant welcoming smile on his face, he brought energy to the audience and made them laugh with some amazing comments.
Personable, concise (not verbose), energetic, calming, engaging (commanding the audience), good time management.
Accomplished. Knows the material and kept the flow going. Re-energizing. Brought all participants into the discussion.
Excellent, great listener, great at facilitating and collaboration
Great communicator, easy to listen to, inspiring.
Jim delivers on every aspect of a Powering Peak Performance Leadership workshop. He is highly engaged in every step of the process from program design to ensuring key deliverables are met or exceeded. His style and delivery creates a high level of engagement with the audience. Will definitely work with Jim again in the future.
Great facilitator, effectively drawing out group participation and feedback.
Dynamic - brings out people's input.
Jim provided the glue that kept this strong team focused through 2 days, but also integrating the previous group to our positive wrap up.
Excellent facilitator, able to understand and read the audience and participants.
Excellent facilitator - starting with foundations - building on the foundation, and cumulating on appropriate strategic imperatives. Kept team on track.
Calm, reassuring, guiding, but not preachy. Kept the team on track throughout the process.
Session was one of the best I have attended. Kept interest all the way through. Used good mix of videos, discussion, activities.
The most advantageous thing about the workshop is being able to assist others with how to cope with change. Working in manufacturing obviously means things change quite often; layoffs, downsizing, processes, etc. Guiding people through these changes can be challenging but using the right tools and motivational tactics, I find can not only assist people through change but also, if need be, accelerate the change. The different examples and situations we heard and covered at your seminar have helped me assess and prepare for specific situations.
Jim is a dynamic presenter. Probably one of the most informative sessions I have attended.
It was useful, entertaining and inspiring! This was an engaging couple of days.
Informative, entertaining and inspiring. Bringing to light items in my own skills that I need to improve in my day-to-day management style.
Great session with lots of good take aways and techniques that can be easily applied to a work environment. Activities were engaging and reinforced the message.
Very good speaker, good exercises. Lots of participation.
Entertaining, a lot of info and time flies by.
Very knowledgeable and current on management topics. Jim makes you want to learn more.
Superb facilitation makes the difference and Jim's reputation is well earned. Effortless shifting amongst subjects, media, exercises produced a very full agenda without being exhausting. A good package of materials to take away for subsequent use.
This is a great course for self analysis as to how you are performing as a leader and what characteristics you should build into your character to become a good leader.
The exercises and action journal are excellent reinforcements to the lively, interactive workshop that Jim runs.
Helpful and beneficial, providing an optimistic outlook on self evaluation and recognition of others around us both at and outside of work.
Very engaging with good use of material and has a good sense of humor. Mr. Clemmer provided some very useful advice with respect to the importance of the leadership role and function and I intend to adjust my current thinking and actions with respect to my leadership role in the company.
Excellent facilitator. Very obvious that Jim has a great understanding of leadership, drawing on extensive experience of other companies.
Knowledgeable, entertaining and informative. An excellent facilitator.
Very practical and personal, great presentation technique, comes across very genuine.
Excellent step back to engage your own thoughts and make sense on how to make some changes to be a better leader.
Engaging, well-researched presentation. Good blend of media and activities kept it interesting. Excellent time management.
Clear communicator, moves quickly - no boredom. If you want to understand the difference between management and leadership - listen to Jim.
Engaging, energetic, entertaining, focused and meaning - no fluff.
Got into detail on topics with examples, not just bullet point presentation.
Good focus. Allows the group to develop but drives effectively to the agreed agenda. Very knowledgable and supported our success.
I found Jim to be very knowledgeable while maintaining a good balance. Informative and entertaining during his presentation.
Jim was very effective at weaving our message into his presentation.
This has forced me to look in the mirror and evaluate my actual leadership skills. Not easy to do honestly.
Very insightful, gets good involvement and discussion from group. Provides good variety of material and subject matter.
Jim provides the 'coaches' huddle to take action at your workplace and life.
Jim is an amazing presenter with awesome material.
No arrogance, just good natured, informative and inspirational news.
Absolutely amazing and inspiring!
The exercises and action journal are excellent reinforcements to the lively, interactive workshop that Jim runs.
The session provides valuable tools for supervisors which can be brought back for implementation.
The best I've been exposed to.
Inspiring, interesting, entertaining and very informed facilitator who is able to massage or flex his presentation to meet the team's needs.
Very informative and a must have for people who lead others on a business and personal level.
Be prepared to be challenged on what you think good leadership is.
A must...attend the seminar. Full of powerful ideas.
Great session with lots of good take aways and techniques that can be easily applied to a work environment. Activities were engaging and reinforced the message.
Very good inspirational leader with life's experience.
Jim provides very practical tools that can be used to be a leader and develop to be a better leader.
Training will provide many insights into what makes good leaders. Many useful tools to add to your personal tool box.
Best session ever! Material very useful to help me be successful. Excellent presentation skills to keep audience engaged.
Very knowledgeable and entertaining speaker. Great new ways of looking at our leadership skills.
Very down to earth and practical - was able to tailor it to be something a wide range of people could get something out of (managers to line workers).
Very intuitive. Reinforces my life thoughts and how I live my life in a positive way.
Very interesting - keeps your attention; gives you the feeling you can solve problems (every day problems).
He is good and material very relevant.
I would recommend Jim's session on your quest to improving yourself on your path to enhancing leadership skills.
Thought provoking - with practical ideas for taking action.
Engaging with lots of pertinent information and strong presentation of ideas.
Engaging with lots of pertinent information and strong presentation of ideas.
My life has become very focused since your workshop in Orangeville for the Forestry Technicians at Hydro One.I have moved on after reflecting on all of the tragedy in my life in the past year (the loss of a relationship and the death of numerous young, close friends in tragic separate incidents). Even my parents pondering divorce (after 43 years) is not disrupting my focus. I went and spent 4 days with my parents after their announcement, said what I had to say and listened to their points of view. It was sad walking away from the situation, but on the way home I just thought 'this cannot affect where I am supposed to be'. I spoke my thoughts and listened and said to myself. That is all I can do.The chips will have to fall where they may. Prior to your workshop, I would have let it consume me. Thanks for the help.
Excellent - I've been a fan for years!
Excellent job! Your non-verbal skills accent the passion you have for your works.
Good background materials to backup points that hammered home the principles being discussed.
A very inspiring session!
I would like to again thank you for an excellent workshop on coaching, that you delivered to our International Sales Directors Meeting in Paris, France, last week. The day's workshop started at a basic level and then progressed in such a way as to bring added value to even those more advanced, coaching savvy, country Directors. You very effectively brought some of the developing country Managers up to speed on the concept of coaching and yet still enhanced the coaching skills of the more experienced in the group. Although the room left much to be desired, you never lost the group. You managed to keep a very diverse audience involved in your material and participating in the development of their new-found or somewhat established coaching skills. They certainly left the meeting with a clear and solid path to follow in implementing the skills learned and/or new ideas gained. Jim, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, 'any increase in managerial effectiveness translates directly to the bottom line'. Your coaching skills workshop has definitely increased the managerial effectiveness of our Sales Managers and Directors from around the world. Our shareholders will therefore appreciate your program when our year end results are posted next year. Thanks again for a great program.
Great at getting everyone involved in the discussions. I would definitely refer any of my colleagues to book Jim as a speaker. Enjoyable!
Nice job in bringing parochial insights forward and the manner in which it was delivered - laid back yet impactful.
This session helped me identify with my leadership skills and will allow me to develop them further. Has given me the confidence to continue on my track.
Thank you for the workshop you presented recently at Dofasco. Your style lends itself to allow the participants to have an enjoyable time and at the same time leave with some new and simple ideas and insights. Your story telling struck a cord with me because in the work I do in our organization, the need for this ability is essential. Drawing on simple analogies or your own experiences in life can often times crystallize the abstract for yourself and others.
Jim's contribution to our planning meeting was significant. The effort applied in advance to understand our organization translated into a super presentation, targeted directly at the audience. The Transformation Pathways discussion provided a great framework for our subsequent workshops.
Excellent - I've been a fan for years!
Jim gave a lot of tools for providing and encouraging leadership.
Very informative and thought provoking material that will help implant change in our organization.
Jim has a very real point that is true in every company I have worked for. I only wish that this course was required by all employees.
Excellent training session to evaluate and improve our organization. We have a plan to start now and work to grow.
This is an extremely useful session with some great tools for developing leadership skills in an easily digested and informed session.
Great presenter, holds your interest, good story teller.
Very strong presenter and speaker and is able to explain and excite one about becoming a leader.
Very informative and thought provoking.
Excellent and effective speaker - very inspirational.
Excellent, well worth the time. Lots of ideas, models, etc. Very interactive and informative.
Excellent, informative, interesting, enlightened, well worth while.
Excellent use of stories and allegory to improve understanding of concepts.
Jim's presentation style is very down to earth. Jim uses realistic examples of tools that I can take back to my organization to build on.
Extremely informative. Very useful in moving our company forward.
Able to interact with participants and draw conversations from answers given by participants.
Entertaining, knowledgeable, engaging, provided a wealth of info in a short amount of time.
Excellent facilitator; kept group engaged. Jim provided some very good approaches to improving morale and increasing employee engagement.
This has been one of the most useful training sessions that I have ever been to.
Jim shared his experiences and the experiences of some of his other clients. This sharing greatly enhanced the learning and 'drove home' how the principles can and have been applied successfully by others.
Engaging, funny, credible, sincere, experienced.
Knowledgeable, good speaker, great sense of humor, enthusiastic about his material.
Positive, enthusiasm flowing out of him, with the right touch of humor to get the points across.
I learn best through examples, and Jim did a good job pulling those examples out of the group and demonstrating his own - that hit home personally.
Thank you for your exceptional and insightful leadership in our Distributor meeting. The insights and life lessons you shared were invaluable...I appreciated not only the moderation of our meeting, but all the time and care you took in gathering the insights from our customers. I am confident we’ll find opportunities to work together in the future. Thank you once again for making our event special." Click here for a PDF of the full letter
This course far exceeded my expectations. I feel motivated to make changes, to inspire and encourage others, and to practice being a leader.
Jim makes an effort to use real-world examples to illustrate the teaching concepts, which makes them very easy to understand.
Jim has keen insight into what it takes to build a transparent and effective culture. His ability to translate principles into relatable and personal action steps is terrific.
Fun, engaging, interactive. Jim is very good at facilitating large group discussion. Liked the Fatal Five Failure Factors.
Insightful, informed, organized, experienced, comprehensive, practical, fresh, entertaining, engaging.
Jim is able to quickly ascertain what an organization needs in order to move forward, even when the leadership has not been able to figure this out for themselves. Jim tailors his message to meet the need and connects with people where they reside. He doesn't talk over the heads of the organization's people, yet doesn't "dumb down" the message, either. If your organization is stuck, Jim can get you moving forward again. If you are moving forward, Jim can help you leap-frog your competition and quickly create sustainable competitive advantages.
Non-Government Organization/Charity
Thank you for launching Leadership Waterloo Region's Non-Profit Series with a powerful and relevant session, 'Leading through Change'. Your evaluations were excellent! One participant commented, "I will remember how to narrow it down – the content was spot on. I appreciated the encouragement to 'help others stay in the learning mode.'" Your session was just what our social leaders needed during these uncertain times. Thank you for engaging our leaders, your presentation's audio was clear, and the slides hit the mark!
Jim is just as dynamic, engaging and thoughtful virtually as he is in person! His messaging is clear and targeted to his audience. We trust that our attendees will ALWAYS leave inspired, and pushed to think with new perspectives. Thank you for sharing your gifts with the members of Leadership Waterloo Region and our community.
Engaging and energetic. Jim's stories, style, and sense of humor bring life to the content. It is obvious that Jim lives what he talks about!
Extremely engaging and memorable (don't change the Dad jokes!). I am leaving today fully motivated, inspired, and excited to put what I've learned into action!
The most valuable parts of this workshop was having takeaway tools. Jim is a facilitator who coaches, practical approaches that are logical and intuitive, and using actual situations and not role playing.
I had several light bulb moments during the two days. The 360 assessment was very useful for me to recognize my strengths. I also saw that coaching is a necessity and not an option to help my team grow.
Funny! I love how he made me laugh.
Very engaging and relative to the work of my organization I am involved in.
Fun, positive, inspiring - it was very energizing and a great reminder.
Able to quickly summarize dense research and transform it into practical application.
Entertaining, informative, easy listening, amazing.
Fun, informative, useful information (in real life)
I needed this "boot in the pants" to get back on the positive side and leave my CRAP glasses at home in the drawer.
Entertaining, brilliant.
Engaging, realistic in the delivery of the detail, great humor incorporated throughout the session. Great analogies, stories to drive home all the points.
Approachable, friendly and funny (even the "Dad" jokes). Positive message focused on strengths - made me feel I need to be more objective and supportive.
Skilled, clear and knowledgeable. Comfortable presenter with a great sense of humor. Helped the day pass quickly. What a lovely "change" of pace.
Very inspiring and funny
Engaging, entertaining, focused, educational, positive, inspiring.
Practical tips, workbook was very useful. Session is portable, will take it away and introduce it to the rest of my team.
Definitely a day of self exam, confirmation and affirmation.
Jim's insightful and knowledgeable and can deliver the material at the level of the 'real' person's understanding.
Dynamic presenter - uses many ways to keep participants 'in' the session - discussions, videos, personal reflections.
Lots of knowledge and wisdom, very effective in presenting his ideas and funny too!
Very energetic, informative and insightful.
Very informative, enlightening, a real sense of understanding and being able to look at ourselves in both a negative and positive way.
Very good at focusing the different aspects of change and leadership.
This is the most concrete approach to leadership based training I have ever attended. Very valuable stories that emphasis points of interest through the whole day - great!
I found the session very informative and left feeling inspired.
Very effective and practical guidance for leading in todays ever changing work environment.
Excellent, provides participants with concrete, realistic and practical solutions and ideas, and no role playing - thank you!
Engaging, entertaining, challenging and affirming!
Very focused useful achievable tools and ideas presented on a foundation of solid up to date theory.
Jim introduced me to the real, practical tools that I have been looking for and put the wind back in my sails!
Jim is a fantastic speaker, entertaining, knowledgeable and inspiring. I would recommend his workshop. He really knows how to get everyone's attention, contains it and gets them involve with discussion.
Excellent ideas and implemental tools for new and veteran leaders.
Worth the time, many practical ideas. Very inspirational. Personalized to our context. Something for everybody, no matter what level you're at.
He knows his stuff. He has much experience in many areas that assist any leader or potential leader to become top notch.
Well researched, good practical presentation skills, great examples, good use of humor, very participatory able to connect with group. Excellent - he believes and lives what he preaches.
It was informative, relevant, encouraging and anchoring in terms of where I fit in within my organization, and clarifying my role within it.
Excellent presenter, great stories and examples, kept my interest, gave valuable information that I can use in my job and life overall.
Jim is a great presenter and really knows what he's talking about. The exercises were helpful and some were really eye opening.
Relevant, informative, practical, directional, motivating. Reinforces concept in his books.
Police/Fire Services
Engaging, authentic, and realistic. Re-energized my view of leadership and how to encourage growth and engagement in my team.
Conscientious, engaging, and interested in our Police Service.
Very energetic and engaged.
Excellent, relaxed, and informative presentation style.
Engaging and genuine.
Very knowledgeable as to leadership competencies and inspiring as to importance of finding path for yourself to increase or improve your leadership.
A different viewpoint of competencies and how they interlink.
Very inspirational - a well polished workshop absolutely loaded with practical tools.
Jim worked through the day's jam packed agenda in a very clear concise manner using effective tools to do so, i.e., slides, videos.
Very thought provoking. Helps you to do some very valuable self-assessment.
Jim is an engaging presenter with excellent use of visual aids. It would have been nice to have more time with the presenter.
Outgoing great presenter who certainly can present his knowledge in clear way for others to understand.
Excellent course that utilizes common sense and everyday examples to deliver its message.
Fast paced, positive, motivational, inspiring!
The information is valuable whether you are in the private or public sector, manufacturing or service.
Positive reinforcement for team building, leadership and positive management.
Provides real life strategies and information for use in your work environment, to enhance your skills in leadership while you manage.
Very valuable to use at home and work.
A great session that helped me learn more about myself and how to improve those areas I need to.
Well worth the time, extremely thought provoking.
Engaging, inspiring, informative.
Energetic and motivated speaker. Really assisted me in looking at the world in a different light. There's more success in looking at life as a navigator!
Inspiring, real, reminds you to be who you are and develop who you want to be, be the influence rather than being influenced and authentic.
Brings you back to what really is important in your daily lives. Stay positive!
There is a lot to learn, to listen and take away a few good ideas.
Insightful, inspirational!
Material is credible and vital to being a leader. I completely agree with the concept of using an experience of serious adversity as a defining event to make me stronger.
Very well done - worth the time!
A valuable investment of time, many take-aways.
Dynamic speaker with a valuable message.
Excellent, well worth it. Made me question leadership and think and I will continue to think and reflect.
Excellent presentation and presenter! Enthusiastic, meaningful and taught with passion.
It motivated me to remember I am a role model, to lead and live in Navigator mode, and stay above the line whenever possible. You are an engaging relevant presenter.
An absolutely exhilarating, energetic presenter with valuable tools to share.
Excellent - clarified issues that cloud the waters of leadership.
I was presented with a wealth of ideas to fix, strengthen and grow my team allowing me to customize my approach to fix the need.
Best day of the course.
Excellent presentation - high energy, positive and provocative.
really enjoyed your session Jim. I've just picked up so much and will be able to apply it in my working environment.
Outstanding speaker. Great use of little quotes and anecdotes. Use of various media in the presentation makes you seem really involved with the group. You are a flashlight, exposing things that many people never see in their lifetimes.
Great applications for concepts that repeated over and over but rarely applied.
Excellent ideas and suggestions on leadership skills and dealing with change. Great idea to brainstorm all issues and changes and set priorities and action plans.
An extensive list of tools that can be used to become a more effective leader.
Thoroughly enjoyed Jim's honest approach to working with people; grow them and encourage them. Reinforced my views.
Fast moving; enjoyable; thought provoking; a good reminder to look in the mirror to see who might be responsible for what is happening - or not. Don't give up the 'Dad Jokes'.
Jim leads discussion groups with experience and a style that is wonderfully received and understood by all.
Excellent presentation, interesting information and very relevant to our structure.
Very valuable, more tools for our tool belt to try to be the leaders of tomorrow with qualities of the leaders we idolize today.
A thought-provoking session involving theories which are backed by real life examples.
Very thought-provoking. Helped me to see where I am, where to go, and how to get there!
On behalf of the LEADER course participants, I thank you for inspiring and touching the heads and hearts of police leaders in the province. Your words, stories and timeless principles continue to contribute to police leadership development.
Great! One of the very best I have attended.
Worthwhile workshop to attend to re-evaluate personal and organizational leadership.
An enlightening workshop on leadership.
The seminar provided practical, common sense action tips that fit into real life situations. Leading and growing, that's the way to go.
I'm inspired to return to work and begin navigating through change and get the ship moving again.
To use a quote from a movie, "you make me want to be a better leader."
Instructive on a professional level and helpful on a personal level.
I have to tell you how inspired I have become since hearing your presentation at the Ontario Police College a couple of weeks ago. I started reading one of the books you gave us and I couldn't believe what I was reading. It certainly wasn't the usual dry leadership step-by-step program I have been used to in the past. Quite the contrary. It was lively, though- provoking, interesting, stimulating, refreshing,...you are a chosen one, my friend. I am so grateful that our paths crossed.
I've been on many motivation, leadership sessions but just like in the NHL, "There's only one Wayne Gretzky".
Great speaker, knows material, great sense of humor. Keeps audience attention.
Very helpful, have read Growing the Distance. Found it very inspirational and useful in my career.
Excellent presentation, new ideas, a review of old, an outstanding opportunity to improve my leadership skills.
One of the best presentations I have ever heard on leader needs and qualities.
A leader on identifying how change is affecting all of us - personal and professional - and strategies on how to cope and lead through it.
Professional Development, Human Resources, and Training
Excellent mix of business, necessary actions and humour.
Knowledgeable; ability to keep my interest/attention; very effective with humour.
Energetic, fabulous speaker, humorous, informative, engaging.
An excellent opportunity for teams to come together and consider ways they can enhance their performance. A practical and fun way to re-energize and create a personal action plan.
Professional Services
Jim was instrumental in helping Unity's Board of Directors grow through a dozen years of leadership planning, implementing and manifesting. Through repeated annual planning sessions, Jim was exceptional in bringing diverse views and energies into a laser plan with measurable and obtainable goals that sustains us from year to year.
Jim is THE go-to guy in Canada for Leadership training. I have always enjoyed his books; and working with him in person has vastly improved my effectiveness. Jim's latest endeavor, "The Extraordinary Leader Workshop" was an exceptional event; even by Jim's unusually high standards. This program is the best tool I have found to identify a leader's current areas of strengths and weaknesses, and more importantly, provides a wealth of knowledge on how you can (and why you should) develop your particular strengths to improve your performance in every aspect of your life.
Consistent – I have read Jim Clemmer for years – definitely focused in his ideas – wonderful in facilitating a large group and making it feel like a conversation.
Jim uses common language to help us connect the dots. He is extremely knowledgeable and can easily adapt to meet the groups needs.
Exceptionally entertaining and probing look into leadership as a concept and a practice.
Energetic, engaging, funny, real life examples relevant to audience.
Very energetic and passionate.
Fantastic! Practical information with inspiring examples from real experiences. Gave me a solid base of ideas to build on!
I have attended various seminars and this was by far the most concrete insight to help me focus my organization.
For sure a grabber – very good presentation and slide shows, humorous and professional.
Very dynamic speaker, great humor, simple, easy to understand ideas.
It was a pleasure to learn from Jim in such a comfortable, non-threatening session. You obviously enjoy what you are doing.
A very useful survey of a very broad topic; Jim worked through 2 days of content in 1 and managed to produce a coherent, cogent, seminar.
Your session was great! We received many glowing comments about your manner of presenting ideas...
Very entertaining. Brings complex issues to an understandable and realistic level. Anyone and everyone can benefit from these sessions.
Jim Clemmer is one of the best.
An entertaining and informative dialogue about improving workplace effectiveness.
Packed full of practical ideas that could be implemented tomorrow. 'Whole' life focus!
His energy and positive attitude are catching! I'm glad I was there.
Entertaining workshop with very real, very effective examples and exercises. A very enlightening day.
You will walk away with something that will make you a better leader - if you want to.
Hits the biggest organizational problem right on the mark - literally puts the moose in full view.
It was fun and informative. It is great to be able to discuss 'difficult' situations with a sense of humor.
Excellent presentation, time went by fast. Good points to leave with, I feel refreshed and optimistic with the future.
Excellent session - I wish we had the whole day! Leadership is a very broad subject, and this person provided a great overview, with thought provoking discussions and exercises.
Very good presentation. Format excellent, interactive and powerful. Provided us with very practical ideas that we can implement.
A clever, witty, delightful and fun way to address common business obstacles to success, profitability and morale. Very enjoyable.
Dynamic, able to articulate issues/concepts in understandable ways.
Very useful, refreshing, light and candid.
Jim's session is value added and a must have for all organizations interested in making a real change and develop leaders. He is a wealth of knowledge!
Energetic, dynamic person. Excellent presenter from both a content and entertainment perspective.
Inspirational, the best motivational speaker I have heard.
Very easy to relate to. Takes complex problems and simplifies the out look on these problems to find a solution.
Excellent content and engagingly presented!
Funny, professional, good grasp on the material.
Lively, powerful and enlightening.
Public Sector
My heart is so full right now...THANK you so so much for the excellent messages. I am completely delighted with your strong profound messages. I thought I would share some of the feedback we have received from the 500 webcast participants who attended your session. The overall rating is very close to 9/10 which is amazing. You rocked... people really appreciated your presentation and the panel conversation. It was an overall great success. Thanks for a job very well done.
Very knowledgeable, great content.
Knowledgeable and challenging. Helps to put together all the pieces of the puzzle in terms of leadership and understanding what culture means to our organization. Thanks for a great day!
Jim was great and really guided the discussions. Given the vague information he was given to create the session, he still hit the nail on the head.
Too bad you didn't have more time Jim! This was only a "teaser" compared to the 1-day "Extraordinary Leader" session with the Ministry of Agriculture. Still, it reaffirmed all I learned and inspired me to continue my (and my team's) journey. You are excellent at presenting and genuine - I could listen to you tomorrow too!
Jim was very informative. The presentation was fun and entertaining.
Jim was engaging, responsive, knowledgeable, and relevant. A very enjoyable presentation!
Motivating, real, inspiring, pragmatic, love the vernacular.
He is entertaining. His session is about life lessons; how we see things, how we deal with them, etc. It has made me think about how I deal with change and what my responsibility for choices are.
It's positive, upbeat, excellent ideas and strategies to cope with this incredibly fast-moving world, both work and home.
Very good speaker, excellent seminar. You can apply his leadership principals in your everyday life (home/work).
Jim's session is excellent for any and everyone as we all struggle on many of the same negative feelings, self talk, etc. His session is an excellent tool for 'living' life.
The session was inspirational. I have gained knowledge that I can apply in both my professional and personal life. Outstanding speaker.
Very beneficial to managers in our environment. Practical information to use in our workplace.
I appreciate much more than the knowledge shared, the opportunity for self-reflection. It is a wonderful chance to assess one's performance as a leader.
Excellent speaker, very engaging and knowledgeable. Extremely excited about his field and can share that information.
Very inspirational, excellent presentation. If it is to be, then it's up to me!
Thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening.
I really found this presentation very useful. I will try to be more introspective and possibly less busy, focus on priorities.
Great session. Very practical and grounded in today's issues.
Thanks once again for the workshop, the feedback I received was very positive. It was a short time frame and you left everyone with the feeling that they wanted more (which is of course a great compliment to you).
Your workshop was truly a pleasure. I'm pleased to report I've started my stump speech for our Nov. 13 planning day, and most critically set aside a full day a week to be available around the office without an agenda talking with staff and also advise staff that this day is theirs with no other commitments.
A great 'tune-up' for values and focus that can make a real difference for one's self and team.
I would like to compliment you on an excellent presentation. You should know that the results from our evaluation indicate that the vast majority of participants found the seminar to be very useful, and that 83% rated your presentation to be "very good" or "good". Well done indeed.
Excellent session. In the heat of constant battle, it's easy to become distracted with multiple issues. This session was a real reminder and re-ignited my passion for leadership and helped me refocus on what's really important – 'the people'.
Thank you for your contribution to EDC's Leaders' Conference: Leadership at the Speed of Change - Striking the Right Balance. In these times of uncertainty and change, you have helped us to reflect on our role as leaders and how we can positively influence the mindset. The presentation was excellent. I particularly appreciated how you drew from EDC's organizational realities to illustrate the concepts and practices contained in your book Growing the Distance. The feedback on your presentation and facilitation of the discussion was highly favorable (4.3/5). I would like to thank you for helping us get a step closer to being Navigators of Change.
Thanks again for delivering your executive development workshop. We again had very positive feedback. Participants rated your knowledge of the topic at a 4.89 out of a possible 5.00. They rated your teaching/presentation skills at a 4.63 out of a possible 5.00 and the quality of the program at a 4.55 out of a possible 5.00. Some of the comments include:-- "good material, expertise, thought-provoking, many resources for future work, further exploring" - "excellent examples"- "well done, very worthwhile"- "very interesting, nice informal style, covered a lot of information in a short period of time well, overall very enjoyable and helpful". The benchmark for our programs is a rating of 4.00 out of 5.00. Your ratings were excellent.
A great session that clearly influenced many people to be better leaders.
Excellent, thought-provoking , life changing course.
I wanted to drop you a brief note to thank you for working with the HR Branch and City leadership in the past few days. You have helped all of us on our journey of self improvement. You have also helped the organization move the yardsticks down the field of leadership. On a personal note I have found the past few days very rewarding. It has caused me to pause and reflect and reconnect with my vision.
Jim's presentation was both informative and reinforcing. His combined use of sayings, humor, and illustrations coupled with his personable style made the material easy to understand and absorb. The day slipped by very quickly. His insights are certainly contagious.
My life has become very focused since your workshop in Orangeville for the Forestry Technicians at Hydro One.
I have moved on reflecting on all of the tragedy in my life in the past year (the loss of a relationship and the death of numerous young, close friends in tragic separate incidents). Even my parents pondering divorce (after 43 years) is not disrupting my focus. I went and spent 4 days with my parents after their announcement, said what I had to say and listened to their points of view. It was sad walking away from the situation, but on the way home I just thought ‘this cannot affect where I am supposed to be'." I spoke my thoughts and listened and said to myself. That is all I can do.
The chips will have to fall where they may. Prior to your workshop, I would have let it consume me. Thanks for the help.
...you delivered the message with passion and style...you did a particularly good job linking the material presented and the implications for training and HRD professionals... While we certainly tapped into the breadth of your knowledge, it was obvious that we had only begun to tap into the depth of your knowledge and experience on many issues.
... finally an author has been brave enough, brilliant enough, and experienced enough to state the basic truths about effective managers running successful, fulfilling, motivated corporations... I'm thrilled... and challenge you to dip your toe into Jim's energetic workshop and then settle back and read his books. You won't be sitting long!
Excellent. A complete step-by-step package of information.
This session was like a tickler. Would have liked to have spent more time on some of the concepts. Most definitely this will cause me to explore these concepts further.
I found the session fantastic and immediately stimulating. I will be contacting you shortly regarding a session I have in mind for the Ontario Parks Association.
While this is so important in today's work environment, I also found this session so extremely applicable and relevant to personal development and one's personal life.
Very rewarding and useful.
They have to attend Jim's seminar. His is so extensively informative, interesting, enlightening, well planned and structural -entertaining.
Always topical and informative.
Addresses issues with humor, insight, and a balance of concrete tips and inspirational concepts.
The session was very relative, the information shared was specific to all departments, not only that of Recreation. This will, for me, make it much simpler to share this.
Very motivating and informative. Useful for day to day life skills.
Engaging, enthusiastic, knowledgable. Of course, I hope to take more workshops too!
Very knowledgable with the ability to relate to every situation.
Good communicator - excellent session. I would recommend Jim's workshop to others.
Very engaging and knowledgable.
Very practical. Brings all the topics back to real life, not just high level concepts
Jim teaches you without preaching to you - makes you want to go out and be a better person.
Jim really kept our group engaged and did a great job of integrating our material. He helped connect the dots for people and increase the value of past session participation. We enjoyed his delivery style and particularly his humor. He laid a solid theoretical foundation illustrated with very relevant examples and stories and effectively led the group through quick and practical exercises to apply it. He’s given good starting points to branch off from for future sessions.
Totally committed to the belief in his program. Humorous, relaxed, comfortable. Imparts his knowledge and views in a way that is easily digested and remembered.
Very effective presenter, entertaining and knows his stuff.
Very realistic and a good reflection of how we lead and manage.
Valuable life's work information shared in an interesting and reflective way. I am finding every year you need a top up of 'Jim' and now realizing a little bit of 'Jim' everyday would even be better.
Excellent speaker with very useful and relevant examples and insights.
Knowledgeable, entertaining, motivating. Re-focused to help move forward with leadership and inspired me - gave me tools to work with team and myself.
Jim is very passionate and knowledgeable on the types of leaders. I found him extremely interesting and influential on self development and growth.
Jim = dynamic/motivated me to see opportunities to change my approach and leadership style.
Very well informed and insightful, did a good job providing practical examples and analogies.
Jim was an authentic speaker and 'kept it real'.
Solid research with good materials to pursue post-symposium. Engaging and dynamic facilitator. On track with direction of presentation.
Positive, confident, knowledgeable, humorous, inspiring, engages participants.
Engaging speaker with balanced educational tools and humor. Teaching-sharing-laughing.
Very well informed, good facilitation of discussion. From the knowledge that culture needs to be part of how to manage or organization.
Funny, connects well with audience, accessible, inspiring.
Optimistic , intriguing, light, entertaining, excellent.
Very engaging, thought provoking, informative.
In a word, FANTASTIC. He is very in tune and his presentation and words hit so close to home for me, I actually became emotional. Great job!!
Visionary. He has enlightened me to many things I have been struggling with.
Inspiring, positive, energetic, alive!
Smart, insightful, funny and great energy!
Engaging, entertaining, energizing, enlightening.
Personable, clear, positive, encouraging.
Quite inspiring and insightful.
Broad knowledge base; understands how to relate the info to the audience well.
Jim is engaging and practical, yet is able to deliver and share a strong message while helping the group to move forward to identify by actions to move our organization forward.
Informative, insightful, entertaining, helpful in directing our plans to act. Thank you for engaging us.
Jim is engaging and entertaining. He does a good job of making people care about culture and think about how they can change their behaviors to match the values.
Humorous, dynamic, easy to understand, relates well to the audience.
Excellent balance of providing material and insight while generating participation.
Awesome speaker – keeps audience engaged, funny.
Great workshop presenter with real life application.
Jim is engaging, knowledgeable and extremely entertaining.
Great fun! Excellent information! Motivational! Put into perspective 'Leadership'.
Very good presenter, entertaining and inspiring - awesome presentation.
Jim is knowledgeable and articulate. He provides an energetic presentation that moves at a good pace, imparts knowledge and engages the learner.
Jim has the unique ability to define and use key concepts and principles in a simple way to bring best out of people.
Jim is perceptive and intuitive while speaking! I benefited by realizing that leadership qualities are something we all can strive for.
Engaging, entertaining - really make a group take a look at themselves!
Thorough, inspiring. He has a wonderful ability to make thinks relevant and helpful.
Humorous - exceptionally knowledgeable on leadership - engaging, thought provoking.
Jim's presentation on Strengths-Based Leadership was outstanding! Feedback that I received from colleagues also reaffirmed their appreciation for being a part of the session (i.e. very positive feedback!). Jim presented the topic with extreme professionalism, clearly demonstrating insightful expertise and providing overall a very informative and inspirational session. His presentation style was delivered with well articulated thoughts, supported by the right level of detail and blended with appropriate humour. Thank you, Jim!!
Excellent speaker with a great sense of humor. His logic is presented very simply and makes perfect sense. With his information, one can learn the tools needed to become more positive.
Upbeat, funny, positive, kept conversation moving along quickly. Great stories, scenarios, examples.
A great speaker who makes you think while making you laugh.
Jim was very informative, the session was very positive and has taught me that I can choose to either embrace change and try to make the best of it or I can be fearful of change and view it negatively.
Excellent facilitator for introducing how to change and move our organization forward.
Retail
Extremely easy facilitator that was able to steer our meeting in a concise manner.
Jim is a seasoned facilitator. He keeps the team moving and on task - a delight to work with. The outcomes match the goal of the meeting.
This was a tremendous vehicle for ideas and inspiration in how to position oneself for maximum actualization at work and home.
Very informative, fun, useful and practical.
...Jim Clemmer's presentation brought in new ideas and perspectives. I enjoyed his perspective on being a manager versus a leader, and his humorous insights!
...Jim is a very good speaker...informative, challenging, and humorous. I actually thought everyone else in the room was a plant and he was only talking to me. His presentation gave me confidence that I wasn't the only one facing these issues.
I have had some profound results myself in the last weeks since the course. I ordered The Leaders Digest and Workbook for my whole team (12 managers) and have started the introduction in training last week. I have briefed my CEO on the program we are working with and she is thrilled. If you ever need anyone as a referral for the coaching course and future clients, I'd be pleased to talk about how much we have used that course and how we have adapted everything in it into our sales coaching program.
"Thank you for opening so many doors Jim - now to turn these principles around and aim them at my personal life...A full life inventory and plan. Thanks again Jim for all of your leadership and guidance - I truly value the work you do!
Jim, your seminar was the best of the day for me! Especially because I find myself (at 45 years old and 25 years into my career) at a point where I need the clear wisdom (and lighthearted touch) your seminar inspires. I did purchase two of your books (one for a friend in a similar point in his career -- law enforcement) and am anxious to begin reading it. I will also check out your online seminar. Once again ... thank you for raising my conference experience several notches up!
Services
A congenial and creative connector of people with ideas and assumptions with new insights.
I recently attended Jim's keynote presentation on Leading @ the Speed of Change at the ONPHA Annual conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Jim's presentation was thoroughly enjoyable. The presentation was to about 1,200 delegates from many backgrounds. Jim was both humorous and thought provoking.
We brought Jim in to present his Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop. After a few discussions with Jim we were able to customize the workshop to our exact needs. The two day workshop was well received by all in attendance and highly recommended.
Jim did an exceptional job and provided me with many "Aha" moments. He presented the information in a very dynamic manner. Truly the best professional workshop I have ever participated in.
Great communicator/listener - very positive and great use of technology.
Organized, patient, disciplined (he didn't let us lead him astray), he was very good at moving us along.
Very funny and entertaining presentation. Group work was well spaced and helped move the presentation along nicely.
Excellent, concise, inspiring and fun.
Great day, looking forward to further enhancement thru your books and emails.
Opened my mind to further research areas we touched on today and take a real look at how I do things, both personal and at work. Lead by example.
Excellent to understand the past, present and most important...the future factors that are required to lead and have others follow that lead.
Jim has been a speaker for a Staubach Company meeting and has conducted consulting sessions with some of our divisions. He is the expert on service and quality for successful business. His presentation can result in immediate benefits for any group or corporation.
Great examples. Very easy to listen to, the day went flying by.
I would be very remiss if I did not express my delight regarding the excellent seminar you conducted for the Institute in Canmore, Alberta. All 25 participants were totally unanimous in requesting you return to deliver another seminar. You were able to satisfy the needs of the bigger home builder company executives (400 - 600 homes per year) as well as make the same information absolutely relevant to the small home builder company (10 - 50 homes per year). Most notable was the great enjoyment expressed by everyone in working with you. I have been involved in education and training for over 30 years. I can recall at best, only two other occasions where so much enjoyment in what they were learning percolated so quickly through a group of people consisting mostly of strangers. I give you my heartfelt personal thanks for these results. It makes my job of locating high quality seminar leaders such as yourself that much easier.
One of the most informative sessions I have attended, and delivered with humor and enthusiasm.
The past 2 days has and will continue to challenge me to look at how I lead people, and not always manage them. Thanks very much. Tremendously insightful.
Excellent, practical real world applicable ideas and principals. Refreshing and rewarding. A great opportunity to gain perspective and then put ideas into action.
You exceeded our expectations! I can't remember so much positive feedback from a group following an outside presentation. I am feeling very good about where we are at vs. where we have come from, thanks so much to The Clemmer Group for helping us along the ‘Road to Excellence.'
Our Senior Managers and participants found the session very informative and commented that they would have liked it to be a little longer...I would like to once again thank Jim for sharing his enthusiasm, knowledge, and learning's with our management and staff.
It's a simple, common sense approach to overcoming issues and negativity in business.
Jim is a great speaker and covers great content. I appreciated the booklet, especially all the great added value referring to books, websites and fee stuff on his own website.
It was a great seminar to motivate on the marriage of leadership and management.
Great tools and resources to help organizations deal with issues in a fun and productive way.
Great information. Great speaker. Great idea to take back to the office. Practical examples and ideas.
Jim's Customer Centered Leadership course is very interactive with heaps of relevant stories/hints/tips to support our service quality initiative.
Clear and concise communicator with a depth of knowledge and expertise in leadership.
Really well presented, humorous and motivating. Very inspired to put into practice.
Worthwhile, well presented in a fast moving setting. Well tailored to our organization.
Very useful, plenty of good ideas. Refreshing.
Jim made the material very relevant to our organizations particular needs and challenges.
In a short space of time (1 hour) Jim can centre you back on to the importance of leadership in our mission of being brilliant!
Jim is very engaging and talks common sense! Can totally relate to our roles.
Entertaining, very useful and appealing to all. We are introducing service quality and the session was very appropriate and reinforced what we are trying to do.
He speaks about all the 'real' stuff, stuff we know we should be doing, and he reminds us and gets us to figure out ourselves how we can do it.
A pro! Will make you think about leadership in whole new way.
Today was like water for a thirsty leader. I came looking for ideas and inspiration and I definitely got it! Sometimes we get so caught up in the firefighting we forget to load up on the water.
A very effective presenter. Tips and techniques with research support.
I felt the authenticity in Jim's presentation, and I felt that he walks his talks.
Well worthwhile. Jim is not only dynamic, but a very insightful speaker.
Encouraged us to not be victims. Don't waffle on the line. Ask questions. Don't let fear get in the way.
Funny and inspiring, a whole different outlook on change and how to be more positive to this change and get on the train to navigator. I would highly recommend Jim and his workshop.
Provided a unique, but simple perspective on how to view change and how to stay above the line.
Really makes you think about life.
Real person who has learned from experience and enjoys passing on his knowledge.
Very thought provoking, helped me consider my weakness and plan my improvement process.
Very energetic and positive. Jim kept my focus all day.
Able to inspire thought, idea sharing and help to get companies/departments to see the need for helping one another for the good of the company goal.
Excellent discussion of thought provoking issues!
Very good communicator. Helped me to realize some strengths and weaknesses in my management/leadership style.
Charismatic and informative, clear explanation of concepts.
Clear, simple to understand, great speaker, man of integrity and understands fully the rules to improve any management team.
The tools are fabulous! They suit my planning style perfectly.
Personable and dynamic – uses humour and analogies to get points across.
Charismatic, funny, knowledgeable, and thoroughly entertaining.
A new approach to leadership that goes against what I held true in the past. The information presented invigorates a new directive in applying and learning leadership skills.
Technology
A very practical seminar.
Excellent overview of key principles. It makes you want to dive in and learn about all of them!
Jim is a fantastic communicator! Enjoyed the relaxed, yet focused approach.
Very thought provoking, I will definitely review the material in more detail to help me build my personal plan.
Excellent job! Very inspiring, thought provoking.
Jim's knowledge, experience, and energetic presentation were exactly what our employees and managers needed to hear at this point in our improvement process. We were all relieved to find that we were not the only people struggling with roll out and implementation! His direction and confidence were reassuring.
Jim both kept my attention and provided me with lots of ideas and tools to improve my personal and business life.
...your guidance has had a significant, positive impact on our management team...we started down the road together less than a year ago and your message has lent practical and effective guidance to our improvement initiative. Our customers are noticing and there's lots more to come... thanks for helping us blaze new pathways, Jim.
... everyone is unanimous in their praise of your ability to have moved us so far so quickly on the path to better customer service... of note, as well, was your ability to draw on a vast experience to provide imagery that facilitated comprehension of an issue in terms that people could relate to... Jim, as always, I learn a considerable amount from you each time we meet.
Having the personal content as well as business was extremely informative and welcome.
Jim delivers a passionate emotional session that encompasses his genuine zest for the essence of what leadership is. This is an upbeat, interactive, thought provoking course that truly drives home the true spirit of leadership. The topics covered were very relevant to today's business challenges and Jim's presentation style balanced humor with timeless quotes which made me want to learn more and more.
I took part in one of your seminars about a year and half ago and have not been the same since. I have just started a full fledged management position and would like to thank you and your organization for helping me in my quest to becoming a GREAT LEADER!
Excellent, relevant, thoroughly enjoyable.
Very insightful speaker with lots of examples and dynamic to the group's needs (very flexible).
Jim is very knowledgeable on his topics, great communicating, keeping the content simple, easy to understand and entertaining.
Identified not only the Moose on the Loose, but Jim showed how management needs to work better with employees.
Assists you with taking a look within yourself to improve your skill set and performance and influence your team to be top achievers.
Jim's talent is clearly to teach key leadership concepts by engaging his audience with fun and descriptive yet simple analogies. He weaves a great story and it's up to us to write our own ending.
Great speaker. His ideas are so simple and easy to apply, it's scary.
I approached Jim to be our guest speaker for our recent conference. It was a pleasure to deal with Jim and his business partner/wife Heather in the running up to the conference. Jim was very professional and engaging in his presentation, his practical material is relevant to our members, and is accessible and well organized. We recommend Jim to anyone looking for a high powered leadership development coach/speaker.
Jim provided the framework and some good tools for us to create our strategic goals for the year. I like his humor too!
Engaging, knowledgable, inspiring, active listener, strong facilitator.
Jim is very engaging and his presentation is thought provoking and is practical. Provided a lot of reference material to make me a better leader and promotes self reflection.
Transportation and Logistics
We have worked with The CLEMMER Group for a couple of years in my current role and some of us with them for many years before that. We have seen the proof of getting your management team aligned using Jim's solid principles for balancing management and leadership.
Jim’s books and The CLEMMER Group’s training and consulting services have been invaluable to building our company’s high performance culture.
I am a big fan of Jim’s solid folksy and very practical style. He is very inspiring and action oriented with his “inspire – action” focus. In this time of constant, ever-increasing change, having an experienced guide for implementing key leadership principles is very valuable.
Simple, to the point, easy to understand and put into action.
Very entertaining, Jim leads you to step back and look at yourself and your style in a manner to diagnose your own performance.
Very dynamic workshop with abundance of examples to support key points.
Excellent session!! Highly recommend.
Practical, simple, and easy to follow. Brought forward issues managers face daily and simple examples of how to handle certain management/leadership traps.
Provides opportunity for reflection and to take away some practical techniques to apply in real life.
Motivating, thought provoking, inspiring, informative, practical.
To the point. Engaging and very knowledgable.
Clients
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- Ontario Police College
- Ontario Provincial Police
- RCMP
- Waterloo Region Police Service
Professional Development, Human Resources, and Training
- Alberta Quality Council
- Alberta Society for Training and Development
- American Society for Quality (numerous national and local chapters across North America)
- Association for Quality and Participation
- Association of Independent Consultants
- B.C. H.R. Management Association
- Banff Centre For Management
- Best of America Training Conference and Expo
- Bowering International Group
- Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
- Canada Quality Council
- Canadian Association of Family Enterprises
- Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
- Canadian Management Accountants
- Canadian Management Centre (division of American Management Association)
- Canadian Productivity Network
- Canadian Professional Sales Association
- Canadian Society of Association Executives
- Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD)
- CANDU Owners Group
- Conference Board of Canada (numerous industry conferences)
- Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers
- Dale Carnegie Training
- Einblau & Associates
- Grand Valley Human Resources Professionals Association
- Human Resource Management Association
- Human Resource Professionals Associations Halton Region
- Human Resource Professionals Association of Manitoba
- Human Resource Professionals Association of Ontario
- Human Resources Association of Nova Scotia
- Industrial Relations Management Association of BC
- Institute for International Research
- Institute of Market Driven Quality
- Instructional System Professionals Association
- International Association of Business Communicators
- Lakewood Conferences (a series of service, quality, and training conferences in Canada and the U.S.)
- Management Academy (Seattle area school superintendents and principals)
- Manitoba Quality Network
- New Brunswick Human Resources Association
- Ontario Society for Training and Development
- Open Learning Agency (BC)
- Orion Training Group
- Pink Elephant
- Positive Employee Practices Institute
- Pro-Q (New Brunswick Quality Association)
- Project Management Institute
- QNET
- Quality Council of British Columbia
- Quality Council of Prince George
- Quality Forum IX
- Sales and Ad Clubs of Canada
- Sales and Marketing Executives
- Saskatchewan Training and Development Association
- Society of Management Accountants
- Strategic Leadership Forum
- TBM Consulting Group, Inc.
- The Canadian Institute
- The Learning Lab
- The Planning Forum
- The Quality Council of Alberta
- The Society of Management Accountants of Canada
- TQM Network
- Western Cities Human Resource Managers
- Young Entrepreneur’s Organization
- Young Presidents’ Organization
- Zenger Miller Inc.
Professional Services
- Accenture
- BDO Dunwoody
- CB Engineering
- Deloitte & Touche
- Dillon Consulting
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- McCarthy Tetrault
- O’Connor Associates Environmental
- XCG Associates
Public Sector
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Alberta Common Services Council
- Alberta Corporate Services (Service Excellence Alberta)
- Alberta Government Management Symposium
- Alberta Human Resources & Labour
- Alberta Justice
- Alberta Learning, Learner Assessment
- Association of Manitoba Municipalities
- Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX)
- Atlantic Police Academy
- Auditor General of Canada
- B.C. Building Corporation
- BC Government Executives and Managers Leadership Forum
- BC Government Service/Quality Program
- Calgary Board of Education
- Canada School of Public Service / Government of Canada
- Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Canadian Public Personnel Management Association
- Canadian Urban Transit Association
- Chatham Kent Police Service
- City of Brampton
- City of Brandon
- City of Cambridge
- City of Grande Prairie
- City of Kitchener
- City of Lethbridge
- City of Moncton
- City of Richmond
- City of Saskatoon
- City of St. Catharines
- City of Vancouver
- City of Yellowknife
- Communication Security Establishment
- Community Futures Partners of Saskatchewan
- Corrections Canada
- District of Maple Ridge
- Employee Learning Services, BC Government
- Export Development Corporation
- Financial Management Institute of Canada
- Forest Renewal BC
- Government of Saskatchewan, Labour Relations & Workplace Safety
- Guelph Police Service
- Human Resource Development Canada
- Human Resources Development Canada
- Indian And Northern Affairs Canada
- Industry Canada
- Institute of Municipal Assessors of Ontario
- Labour Canada
- Liquor Control Board of Ontario
- Michigan Department of Transportation
- Ministry of Community and Social Services
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Natural Resources
- Ministry of Technology, Innovation, and Citizen’s Services (BC)
- Ministry of the Environment
- Municipal Officers Association of B.C.
- Municipality of Chatham Kent
- Newfoundland Government
- Nova Scotia Government (numerous departments)
- Ombudsman Ontario
- Ontario Clean Water Agency
- Ontario Federal Council
- Ontario Fire College
- Ontario Leadership Centre (The Cabinet Office)
- Ontario Ministry Of Community Safety & Correctional Services
- Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity, and Innovation
- Ontario Ministry of Environment
- Ontario Ministry of Labour
- Ontario Ministry of Transportation
- Ontario Parks Association
- Ontario Police College
- Ontario Works in Peel Region
- Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health
- Public Service Commission
- Public Works and Government Services Canada
- Region of Durham
- Region of Peel
- Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton
- Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton
- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
- Saskatchewan Government
- Saskatchewan Government (numerous departments and agencies)
- Saskatchewan Public Service Commission
- Skills Canada
- Supply and Services Canada
- Town of Ajax
- Town of Innisfil
- Transport Canada
- Wellington County Public Sector Consortium
- Worker’s Compensation Board of Nova Scotia
- Workplace Safety and Prevention Services
Retail
- Eddie Bauer
- CAA Mid-Western Ontario
- Princess Auto Ltd.
- Rain Bird Golf Irrigation
- RIMOWA North America
- Thomas Cook
- Wal-Mart Canada Inc.
Services
- Air Ontario (division of Air Canada)
- Aliant Telecom
- BDO Dunwoody
- Beattie Homes
- Beaver Foods
- Caesars Windsor
- Calgary Airport Authority
- Canada Safeway Limited
- Canadian Airlines International
- Canadian Association of Club Managers
- Canadian Tire
- Canadian Tire Dealers’ Association
- Canadian Tire Petroleum
- Canadian Tire Store Systems
- Carlton Cards
- Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing
- CFMT-TV (division of Rogers)
- Clarke Railfast
- CNC Global
- Coles Book Stores
- Corporate Recovery Services
- Crane Supply
- Culligan Water Conditioning
- Del Labs
- Elephant & Castle Group
- Ernest & Young
- Federal Express
- Friesen’s Corporation
- Gardner Merchant Food Services
- Giffels Associates Limited
- GM Dealers Association
- H. B. Maynard
- Halifax Daily News
- Home Hardware Stores
- Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador
- Hudson’s Bay Company
- IKEA
- Industrial Accident Prevention Association
- Intratravel
- Jayman Master Builder
- K-Line Maintenance and Construction
- KFC
- Kitchener-Waterloo Real Estate Board
- Lexus
- Livingston Group
- Lone Star Texas Grill
- Macmillan Canada
- Manitoba Tourism
- Maritz
- Martin Building Maintenance
- McDonald’s Restaurants
- Mercedes-Benz Latina (Latin and South America)
- Metro Toronto Convention Centre
- Mount Pleasant Group
- Mövenpick Restaurants Canada
- NAV Canada
- North American Meat Purveyors Association
- O’Neill Hotels and Resorts
- Ontario Community Newspapers Association
- Pareto Corporation
- Pathfinder Learning Systems Corp.
- Polygon Group Limited
- Powell Equipment
- Professional Home Builders Institute
- Resorts Ontario
- Robbin’s Donuts
- Rogers Credit Operations
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Sanjel
- ServiceMaster
- Smitty’s Fine Furniture
- Sony
- Special Libraries Association
- Supply Chain Management in Canada and Germany (run Wal-Mart distribution centers)
- Tarxien Corp.
- The Grocery People
- The Staubach Company
- Thomas Cook Group Ltd.
- Toronto Law Office Management Association
- Toryls
- Tourism Stratford
- Toyota Dealers of Ontario
- TransGlobe Property Management Services
- Turf Management Systems
- TV Ontario
- Universal Weather & Aviation
- Vallen Safety Supply
- White Spot Restaurants
- Worker’s Safety and Insurance Board
- Young Entrepreneurs Organization (division of YP0)
Technology
- Advanced Technology Systems
- Algorithmics
- Aspen Technology
- Bell Canada
- Canadian Information Processing Society
- Canadian Radio Common Carriers Association
- Co-Operator’s Data Services Ltd.
- Communitech Technology Association
- Entourage Technology Services
- IBM
- Internet World
- Ironside Technologies
- J.D. Edwards
- Lumonics
- Maritime Tel & Tel
- Matsushita Electric (Panasonic, Technics, Quasar)
- SAP
- Sasktel
- Software Support Professionals Association
- Stentor Canadian Network Management
- Sun Micro Systems
- Symantec Corporation
- Targray Technology
- Xerox
Transportation and Logistics
- Bombardier Transportation Services
- Canadian Association of Supply Chain & Logistics Management
- Charterways Canada
- Laidlaw Education Services
- LEP International
- Livingston Group
- Metro Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Management in Canada and Germany (run Wal-Mart distribution centers)
- Tibbett & Britten