Jim Knickerbocker, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Aurora, Co, Us

Aurora, Co

Find Meaning. Love your work. I support individuals and organizations to work better together through Executive Coaching, Organizational Development Consulting, and Professional Life Coaching. I coach executives and managers to lead large-scale organizational change, the kind that is critical to organizational success. Specifically, I support leaders with the following services:*Developing into a more powerful leader*Diagnosing a serious business problem and recommending solutions*Designing changes to organizational structure, culture, or process*Facilitating important meetings and workshops In my work with individuals my initial focus is exploring how they can become more effective in their current jobs before looking to new jobs or careers.

Greater Denver Area

Bringing a powerful new approach to human emotions to companies and individuals, one that completely changes our relationship to our emotions and offers a path to stress-free performance. Learn how to work WITH your emotions instead of against them. Go to adaptivemastery.com

Denver, Co

Social entrepreneur applying business rigor in the educational domain to address the significant social problem of poverty by improving college completion. Developed innovative experiential training courses and mechanisms to increase participant engagement in this start-up enterprise.

Santa Cruz, California

The Academy for College Excellence is an innovative, award-winning program that helps at-risk students to succeed in college. My role was to lead a significant expansion of the program to multiple colleges in a way that is repeatable and increasingly efficient, and to manage the relationships with those colleges. Gained experience driving change in complex organizations, growing a small non-profit organization, and developing training delivery systems

Palo Alto, Ca

Coached HP executives and senior managers on critical organization issues, including restructuring, acquisitions, team & leader effectiveness, employee engagement, and communication effectiveness. Offered services including team development, management of change planning & implementation, large meeting facilitation (large group interventions), and executive coaching.

Mountain View, Ca

• Hired to create new Americas-wide consulting service to address organizational issues arising from large-scale technology implementation (e.g., SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft). Determined market needs, developed and delivered consulting products, created selling channels, and hired and managed staff of eight employees.• As a consultant, delivered workshops to all client organizational levels and coached managers and executives to effectively lead their teams and companies through a major technology change.• Innovated through use of clients’ actual project situation instead of generic training, use of experiential exercises over lecture, use of large group cross-functional interventions versus small departmental meetings.• Collaborated with leaders in Asia-Pacific and Europe to develop global consulting practices and collateral.

Responsible for software development and support of applications used to originate mortgage loans. Managed a team of 14 people.

Managed team of 8 business analysts and software developers responsible for primary software running the Delta Dental business.

Supervised teams of up to 7 consultants and client programmers. Responsible for quality of systems produced, user liaison and promoting team problem solving.

B.A., Economics

Activities and Societies: Princeton University Computer Center, Radio station WPRB, 2 Dickinson Street Cooperative

Ph.D., M.A., Human And Organizational Systems

Focus on experiential learning approaches for education and organization development

M.A., Management

Activities and Societies: Certificate program NTL InstituteCurriculum focused on Organization Development in association with the NTL.

Education record

Education record