James Ware
MBA, PhD
CA, USJim Ware is a former Harvard Business School professor who has spent his entire career helping clients invent their own futures by exploring the changing nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace. He leads strategy formulation exercises by facilitating collaborative learning, building scenarios of alternative futures, and transforming ideas and insights into bottom-line results.
His latest book, Making Meetings Matter: New Rules and Cool Tools for Corporate Conversations in the Digital Age, was published in February 2016.
He is currently the founder and Executive Director of The Future of Work...unlimited, Global Research Director for Occupiers Journal Ltd., and a Partner with The FutureWork Forum.
The Future of Work...unlimited is a research and advisory services firm that creates visions of the future and helps clients achieve them. Occupiers Journal Ltd. is a global peer and knowledge-exchange network providing proprietary research and advice to end-user real estate and facilities management executives. The FutureWork Forum is a global think tank of more than 20 independent consultants devoted to reviewing, researching, reporting and responding to issues around the future of work.
Jim was a co-author and the lead editor for Cut It Out! Save for Today, Build for Tomorrow, published by the IFMA Foundation in 2009. He also authored the chapter on change management for the recently-completed book Work on the Move: Driving Strategy and Change in Workplaces, also from the IFMA Foundation (October 2011)
Corporate Agility (2007), co-authored with Charles Grantham and Cory Williamson, addresses the need for organizations to coordinate and integrate HR, IT, and CRE/facilities management to develop new business capabilities for competing in a flat, global economy. Corporate Agility was named one of the ten best business books of 2007.
He holds PhD, M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. Jim is an active member of the National Speakers Association; he is currently the president of the NSA Northern California chapter. He lives and works in Walnut Creek, California.
Jim Ware is a former Harvard Business School professor who has spent his entire career helping clients invent their own futures by exploring the changing nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace. He leads strategy formulation exercises by facilitating collaborative learning, building scenarios of alternative futures, and transforming ideas and insights into bottom-line results.
His latest book, Making Meetings Matter: New Rules and Cool Tools for Corporate Conversations in the Digital Age, was published in February 2016.
He is currently the founder and Executive Director of The Future of Work...unlimited, Global Research Director for Occupiers Journal Ltd., and a Partner with The FutureWork Forum.
The Future of Work...unlimited is a research and advisory services firm that creates visions of the future and helps clients achieve them. Occupiers Journal Ltd. is a global peer and knowledge-exchange network providing proprietary research and advice to end-user real estate and facilities management executives. The FutureWork Forum is a global think tank of more than 20 independent consultants devoted to reviewing, researching, reporting and responding to issues around the future of work.
Jim was a co-author and the lead editor for Cut It Out! Save for Today, Build for Tomorrow, published by the IFMA Foundation in 2009. He also authored the chapter on change management for the recently-completed book Work on the Move: Driving Strategy and Change in Workplaces, also from the IFMA Foundation (October 2011)
Corporate Agility (2007), co-authored with Charles Grantham and Cory Williamson, addresses the need for organizations to coordinate and integrate HR, IT, and CRE/facilities management to develop new business capabilities for competing in a flat, global economy. Corporate Agility was named one of the ten best business books of 2007.
He holds PhD, M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. Jim is an active member of the National Speakers Association; he is currently the president of the NSA Northern California chapter. He lives and works in Walnut Creek, California.
Making Meetings Matter
A "hands-on" workshop for department and team leaders focused on "new rules and cool tools" for designing and leading meetings. Explores the misalignment between conditions in the economy in 2015 and the dominant leadership style of "command and control." Suggests that we have moved beyond mass production to mass collaboration, and that we must boldly rethink how we design and lead meetings in order to engage participants and produce meaningful decisions and/or innovations.
Talking About Tomorrow: Conversations about the future of work.
Managing People You Can't See
