Jim Caprara Email & Phone Number

Fulton, Md, Us

Virginia, United States

Jim, returns to the ATD Board in 2020 as Chair Elect, and Chairman of the Board 2021. Jim served on the ASTD board as board member and in 2009/10 as Chairman of the Board. With 2020/21 challenges worldwide, Jim has returned to this leadership position to provide guidance.

Fulton

Jim Caprara is Managing Partner, Newport Consulting Group, LLC. Newport Consulting Group assists clients in taking a systematic structured approach to improving organizational results. Specialization is centered on Executive-Business Coaching, Go to Market Strategies, Interim and Turn Around Management, Talent and Succession Planning. Newport provides a highly cost-effective solution for companies to address challenges with breakthrough innovations, and bottom line results.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

As President and CEO, Jim was responsible for end to end P&L oversight, organizational design, business development, and execution to support the growth of a new company strategy. Jim led the company to reinvent itself, transforming a limited and regional go to market model as a an LED lighting contractor, to that of a nationally recognized Energy Services company. Jim was able to transform this lighting business through an expanded product portfolio, including the introduction of new licensed partnerships, intelligent controls, white-labeled energy monitoring systems, EV car charging, creative financial vehicles, and an industry-first service excellence program. Growing the company's geographic footprint from 3 states to a nation-wide market exposure in under three years, Jim successfully positioned the company for acquisition with an accepted LOI and sales agreement in 2019.

As Vice President of Business Development, Jim supported the game-changing launch of revolutionary authoring platforms, bringing the power of adaptive learning into the hands of corporate organizations worldwide.McGraw-Hill's first Business Development VP addressing this corporate strategy, Jim was responsible for organizational strategy, market development, and sales execution to support the growth of McGraw-Hill’s learning science platforms. Contributions included, shifting communication of the strength in the learning platform's value proposition from a product sale to a solution and results focus, improving client acceptance and acceleration through operational improvements, and the adjustment of client offerings, increasing c-level exposure, reducing sales cycle times and improving client satisfaction.Jim remains a strong advocate of McGraw-Hill's adaptive platform, and its value as a game-changing technology when applied to any corporate learning environment.

Glen Burnie, Maryland

Jim Caprara served as Group CEO for TXO Systems, a global enterprise of companies with headquarters in the US, UK, and Brazil. In this role, he was charged with global strategy, P&L, sustained growth, quality partnerships, and ultimately the highest level of customer experience possible. TXO Systems operates the industry’s largest de-installation and consultative partner network and provides end-to-end network asset management and recovery solutions. Maintaining the world’s largest held inventory of secondary market network equipment, TXO supplies OEMs and operators with new and secondary market multi-vendor parts and equipment world-wide. During this period, Jim successfully redefined the way TXO Systems Inc. connects to the market, allowing penetration at C-level into major network and telecommunications companies. This included a redesign of the company’s core go-to-market strategy, positioning an expanded services portfolio targeted to penetrate the multi-billion dollar U.S. government market, and successfully introducing a hardened recovery process enabling a first GSA listing.

Linthicum, Md

Jim served as Vice President and General Manager for Ciena Learning Solutions (CLS), and Ciena’s Network Transformational Solutions (NTS) Knowledge Consulting Business.CLS provides both product specific training, and a comprehensive learning certification portfolio to core Ciena customers and to the general public. NTS, provides customers with knowledge transfer consultative services and advanced custom transformational solutions supporting business process mapping, organizational readiness, new technology migration, and change enablement.As founder, Jim Caprara was charged with the end to end responsibility for this profitable global learning enterprise, including, R&D, Production, Marketing, Sales, Delivery and P&L.Through 2011, Jim Caprara served as Vice President of Global HRD, Learning for Ciena, charged with the enterprise-wide company strategy and implementation of human capital, talent management, development and knowledge transfer collateral for both employees and customers worldwide. Additionally, Jim served as executive owner of all merger activities between Ciena and Nortel for workflows including: talent, succession, retention and cross skills development; the engineering group's technical documentation and labs integration; and organizational culture.

Virginia, United States

Jim served on the ASTD board as board member and in 2009/10 as Chairman of the Board. The Association for Talent Development (now ATD) is the world's largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations, supporting the growth of the knowledge and skills of employees in organizations around the world.

Reston, Virginia

As CLO, Jim was responsible for all aspects of NVR’s investment in the development of human capital and customer service interface, including all strategic and tactical training, talent management and leadership development, succession planning, internal company communications, customer relations, diversity, and safety functions. NVR’s learning organization provides support to an internal workforce of 5000+ across 4 home-building companies, a large subcontractor base, a mortgage and settlement company, and six manufacturing plants.

During his time with Nextel, Jim was responsible for strategic and tactical training, leadership development, performance and talent management, succession planning, inclusion strategies, and customer education. This includes the training and development of Nextel’s internal employees, partner employees in call centers, both domestic and international, and support of an indirect sales organization of over 40,000. Nextel’s HRD model has been recognized as an aggressive approach to human resource development, which extends beyond traditional boundaries and provides a single, successful, comprehensive solution to address both employee and customer education. As a member of Nextel's senior leadership team, Jim also served on Nextel's patent approval council, as a key contributor to Nextel/Sprint merger activity and as an officer of Nextel China Holdings.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Early in his career, Jim was promoted through a series of progressive leadership roles with Sears, including Sales Manager; Operations Manager; District Business Manager; Director of Training and Education, Director of Developmental Resources, and Director of Store Administration.His field experience included two district assignments, east coast and central U.S.,with direct oversight of a 146M P&L. Accountabilities included end to end P&L, sales floor merchandising, inventory/assortment management, product promotion, recruitment/training, payroll, goal allocation, and development of a high performance commission sales force. In a senior learning role as Director of Training and Education, Jim founded Sears Technological Institute, the first corporately-owned accredited school in the US.With two assignments reporting directly to the company's president, Jim served as Director of Developmental Resources and also as Director of Store Administration, responsible for the goal allocation, performance metrics, and plan construction to support an $11bil business.