"Kites rise high against the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill
Jim joined the Misura Group in January 2024 as the Consulting Director. For 17 years, Jim was president of the Construction Suppliers Association, which served a constituency composed mainly of family lumber and truss businesses. Over time, he grew to understand that the biggest threat to those members was failure to address family business issues like succession. The association developed programs for next-generation leaders along with programs for current-generation leaders who were trying to figure out how to depart well. While developing those programs and working with individual companies, Jim developed an expertise in family business issues. This, coupled with Jim’s unique empathetic-while-direct personality makes him a valuable resource to family businesses.
A health scare in 2020 led him to ask himself the same kinds of things he asks people he coaches:
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Are you doing what you are passionate about?
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What is it that you were put here to do?
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If you really believe you have a different purpose, what are you waiting for?
The answers to those questions led him to a career shift toward consulting in 2022.
Prior to his time at CSA, Jim worked for several other trade and professional associations. In 2017, he received the Clifford Clarke Award for outstanding service and accomplishments in association management by the Georgia Society of Association Executives.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Berry College and an MBA from Mercer University. He also completed the Emory University Executive Coaching Diploma Program.
He enjoys travel and landscape photography and combines the two whenever he can.