Jim has 10 years of industry and innovation experience, specializing in front-end-of-innovation strategy, including strategic foresight, trend-spotting and scenario planning, innovation process, opportunity identification, and strategic roadmapping. He has worked extensively at the intersection of innovation and emerging trends in intelligent systems (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, etc.) and leads the RTI Innovation Advisors foresight practice. Jim leverages his prior teaching experience as one of the go-to advisors for projects involving capacity building, facilitating innovation workshops, design sprints, and innovation labs. As a certified design thinking instructor and published author, Jim has led numerous design thinking workshops and developed various innovation and technology commercialization capacity building programs that have been implemented in corporations across the US and universities in the Philippines, El Salvador, and Saudi Arabia. Jim is both an engineer and a teacher at heart. His unique career path reflects his diverse interests and his desire to make the world a better place. As a lifelong learner, he loves connecting with others who share his passion for innovation, education, or new technology and have unique views on how to make social change happen. Strengthsfinder: Learner | Competition | Includer | Strategic | Ideation
Listed skills include Public Speaking, Data Analysis, Research, Teaching, and 15 others.