Jim has been in the consulting industry for 24 years. His specialty is applied research and he has developed many of the instruments that are our key to assisting companies in executive evaluation and placement, organizational assessment and strategic planning including Leadership Style Indicator®, the HiPerOrg® Survey, ProStyle™, and the Developmental Opportunity Identifier™.

Jim designs and facilitates strategic planning conferences and team problem solving, as well as workshops for executives and teams of all sorts. He has led organizational change efforts in utility companies, including developing a safety culture that reduced accidents in distribution operations and created work force empowerment in fossil plants. He developed Somerville Partners' selection services QualiFit® Systems, including a database of position success profiles that allow more objective selection of key personnel based on unique empirical models developed for specific positions.

He was an Officer in the Air Force, Army, and Navy Reserve as a clinical psychologist and organizational effectiveness staff officer. He assisted an Army unit screen and select candidates for sniper training.

Jim holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arkansas, a B.B.A. in Personnel Management from the University of North Texas and an M.B.A. in Management from Golden Gate University.