Jim Bandrowski can give a high-impact, entertaining speech customized to your organization's style and needs. He consistently receives outstanding responses from audiences.

Jim Bandrowski Brings
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Jim Bandrowski, President of Rock Your Industry in Danville, CA, is the critically acclaimed author of Corporate Imagination-Plus: Five Steps to Translating Innovative Strategies into Action (Published by The Free Press division of Simon & Schuster). Entrepreneur Magazine said: “This book is for those wanting new momentum in their industries.” Industry Week stated: “James Bandrowski's system emphasizes action that helps companies beat their competition.” In March 2009, the book Discover Your Inner Strength was published in which Jim is a coauthor with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Brian Tracy, and others. (Click here for press release.)

Jim helps management teams create and implement breakthrough strategies. Keynote speeches, training, consulting, and facilitation topics include: High Amplitude Leadership, Breakthrough Leadership, Strategic Innovation, Breakthrough Lean Six Sigma, Strategic Cost Reduction, Execution Excellence, Making Strategy and Change Happen, Global Marketing and Sales Planning, Benchmarking for Breakthroughs, and Team Jump-Start. His aim is always to achieve measurable breakthroughs in results.

Positive results have been achieved in a wide variety of industries: high and low tech, healthcare, oil, consumer products and services, industrial equipment and services, and government and non-profit organizations. Clients include GE, Disney, Merck, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Kodak, TRW, Electronic Arts, Mannesmann, Chevron, Exxon, Saudi Aramco, McKesson Corporation, Safeway, Century 21, Mazda, C. Itohshu, First Nationwide Bank, Andersen Windows, American President Lines, Moore Industries International, Vlasic Pickles, Chateau St. Michelle, Cakebread Winery, Kaiser Permanente, United Health Care, HealthNet, U.S. Navy, and the Cities of Walnut Creek and Modesto.

Before founding Strategic Action in 1984, Jim was Director of Planning of DiGiorgio Corporation, a $1 billion conglomerate in San Francisco. He helped the company's ten food processing, building materials, and distribution businesses to out-innovate their competition. Growth, acquisitions and strategic cost reduction increased the price of DiGiorgio's stock from $7.00 to over $30.00 a share. Prior to joining DiGiorgio in 1979, he was Director of Planning of Systron-Donner (a high tech conglomerate), Senior Planner with Kaiser Industries, a Management Consultant with Stone & Webster, and held various engineering positions at Becton-Dickinson. These included R&D, design of medical products, design and start-up of automated manufacturing processes, manufacturing engineering, and a promotion to New Products Coordinator. At B-D, he was awarded two patents and was published in Clinical Chemistry magazine for a discovery in fluorometric chemistry.

Jim has an MBA from NYU, an MS in management science/industrial engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a BE in chemical engineering from Villanova University. He has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and delivers courses in the executive and management education programs of the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business, and other universities. A Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Jim is frequently asked to speak at corporate events, trade and professional association meetings, and conferences.

"Jim took direct aim at our overall conference objectives plus those for his specific session, and hit two bulls eyes."
 - A Corporate Conference Chairman