Jim Bandrowski

Jim is an author, global keynote speaker, trainer, and consultant. Author of the book Corporate Imagination Plus: Five Steps to Translating Innovative Strategies into Action, the publication Industry Week said, "James Bandrowski's system emphasizes action that helps companies beat their competition."

Jim's clients include GE, Disney, Merck, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Kodak, TRW, Electronic Arts, Mazda, Chevron, Exxon, Saudi Aramco, Safeway, Century 21, First National Bank, MITRE, Vlasic Pickles, Kaiser ermanente, HealthNet, U.S. Navy, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and several municipalities. He helps them achieve breakthroughs using strategic innovation and planning, new product and service development, Lean Six Sigma, global marketing, and strategy execution.

Before founding Strategic Action Associates in 1984, Jim was Director of Planning at DiGiorgio Corporation, a $1 billion conglomerate in San Francisco. He helped the company's food processing, building materials, and distribution businesses out-innovate their competition. Prior to that, he was director of planning of Systron-Donner, senior planner with Kaiser Industries, and a consultant with Stone & Webster. Jim worked in R&D, product design and coordination, design of automated manufacturing processes, and manufacturing engineering at Becton-Dickinson.

Jim earned an MBA from New York University, an M.S. in management science and industrial engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, a B.E. in chemical engineering from Villanova University, and he's Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified. He's also a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a patent holder, and was published in Clinical Chemistry magazine for a notable discovery in fluorometric chemistry.