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Jim Looram
Over thirty years experience in consulting, training, teaching and managing in private and public sector organizations of all sizes
Successful businessman and developer/presenter of highly acclaimed public and private seminars including Personal Peak Performance
Former Army officer with combat experience and a Professor of Leadership at West Point Military Academy
PhD in Sociology, post doctoral work at Columbia University and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Dr. Looram has been a consultant to management since 1971, specializing in personal peak performance, team building and strategic planning. Noted especially for his compelling credibility and interactive style, his industry clients include a wide variety of companies (Kellogg, Weyerhaeuser, Amoco, Eastman Kodak, Digital Equipment, TRW, Dupont, Black Clawson, the Alaska Railroad, US West, to name a few).

His health care clients include Johnson & Johnson, Ortho McNeil, and the University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics. Likewise, he has brought his experience and skill to a number of government clients such as the U.S. Forest Service, the United States Postal Service, and the City of San Francisco. For three years he led the U.S. Army’s only traveling consulting team providing consulting assistance to general officers in the management of large complex systems. Dr. Looram is a well-published, highly respected designer and facilitator of courses, focused meetings and other organizational interventions. Jim lives in New York City and leads the Auburn Group effort in the northeastern United States.
Dr. Looram has provided public seminars in management for twenty-five years. He has presented the organizational leadership instruction for American Management Association’s Course for Presidents and for fifteen years was their nationwide course leader for their Executive Effectiveness Program. Each quarter for the past ten years he has conducted a weeklong public seminar: Personal Peak Performance: A Seminar in Personal Excellence.
Teaching assignments include three years as a Professor of Leadership at West Point, and membership on the MBA faculty of Pepperdine and Golden Gate University. He designed and directed Chapman University’s graduate program in Human Resource Management and was the Director of Training for the U.S. Army’s Organizational Effectiveness Center, a fully accredited graduate program which trained officers to be internal management consultants Army wide.

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