There is a quiet confident and depth of knowledge and experience that is discovered in a conversation with Jim. He does not forcefully put this in the face of the client but demonstrates it in the process of uncovered the client needs. For me, the focus on what I needed and how I needed to understand an issue is what sets him apart from others in the coaching and consulting field.

To explain further, Jim is always very good at helping me as an executive discover and uncover what needs to be improved on as a leader in a way that makes it comfortable and doable for me. It can be a very vulnerable moment that needs careful handling. Once this level of trust is established, Jim does an outstanding job of pushing for feedback and evidence that the new skills are being developed and used. Ultimately to me, his value is in the change that he helped bring about in me and other he has coached at my firm and with colleagues I know at other firms.

Mark Casady
CEO and President
LPL Financial LLC

I contacted Jim when I was director of Internet Services at Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Jim helped me manage the turbulent changing environment there helping me to focus on what I was trying to achieve and accomplish in my multiply interfacing with clients, peers and owners.

I hired Jim Oher based on two key metrics, success and trustworthiness. I had seen his work first hand, changing a corporate bull in a china shop into a highly production member of an executive team whose reputation turned around in an under a year. As I had a close personal relationship with said bull in a china shop, I had a clear understand of how wildly successful his work was, even when presented with a very hard situation.

Trustworthiness is a tougher issue. Jim and I spoke at length in our initial meetings about what I hoped to achieve. He clarified where my personal boundaries were with regarding to professional counseling and never once pushed beyond them. Quickly, I came to trust him with personal information to understand my professional challenges. My trust in him was rewarded as I began to apply his insightful advice and developed skills and insights unknown to me before. He is a keen observer and pointed out small changes that when adopted, had huge positive impacts. The metrics held true throughout our work.

Heather Mlodinow
International Internet Consultant

Several times in my career I have sought out and secured the services of Jim Oher. I have long been impressed with him as a consummate professional. His professionalism has three main elements for me:

His grasp of current industry issues coupled with his personal preparedness with cutting edge interventions, resources and tools. He has always impressed me with his ability to stay on top of the professional trends and developments. He strikes me as a life-long learner and hence you know what you are getting the best of current information, resources and thinking;

He has a unique ability to listen and explore the issues that need to be addressed; his line of questions actually helps clarify not only the present problem but also the frame underlying issues that relate to possible solutions.

He is not selling product; he offers material, resources and referrals, so that even in the discussion phase there is already some movement in dealing with issues. He is really a well-rounded professional and a renaissance man as well.

Terrance McGuinness Formerly Managing Director – Global Human Resources
Zurich Scudder Investments

I found myself as a senior executive in a highly politicized environment and without the skills to succeed or even survive. I needed someone who could teach me to manage up and manage down skills and also coach me through specific high stakes institutional Conflicts. Jim Oher was a godsend!

Leonard M., Post Ph.D, Award Winning Writer, Scientist, and Senior Executive at a Fortune 100 Publishing Corporation and editor of the current best-selling book , A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME BY STEPHEN HAWKING.

Jim was and continues to be a successful consultant and coach at Scholastic Corporation because:

• His expert background in psychology, organization culture and psychometrics and psychodynamics
• His manner, which is both professional and warm °© people find him very genuine, straightforward, nonjudgmental and insightful
• His success rate at helping executives understand their leadership weaknesses and how to help them develop skills to improve them
• He has a long history of providing services and benefits assistance to the company, especially with work/life and interpersonal and resiliency/hardiness issues
• He is just very smart, astute, fun to work with, low key and delivers on budget and on time
• He can relate to anyone
• He can be tough and very direct when needed

Jan Lorimer, Senior Human Resources Officer
Scholastic Corporation, Danbury CT and New York City

Jim was recommended to me by an attorney from a very prestigious law firm. I had a very difficult but talented executive that had put the company at risk on too many occasions. I hired Jim to help me with this executive. Unfortunately two coaches had already fired themselves from the case after meeting this brilliant yet arrogant and exasperating executive. Jim worked with the executive for over six months and we slowly started to see changes in his behavior. The executive would catch himself before being disruptive or offensive and would apologize for the consequences of his behavior – something he had never done before. When I asked Jim how he was able to get through to his executive Jim said, “Never back down from a bully. Understand what brought on this and behavior – identify the cause and effect relationship and never give up trying to help.”

Gloria Feliciano
Formerly SVP Human Resources – Universal/PolyGram

Jim was recommended to me by our Senior HR official who touted his excellent reputation in our firm by providing advice and counsel for many executives with peak performance challenges. While meeting and working with Jim I learned to value his true consultancy and expertise as an advisor and partner in my personal development. He helped me enormously with many of my executive team members in addition to relationships with peers and superiors. I would recommend him to anyone.

Michael Azarian
Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase
Technology Leader for Global Integration