Jim Kirkpatrick Ph.D.
JIM KIRKPATRICK, Ph.D., is SMR USA's Vice President of Global Training and Consulting, and presents workshops for and provides consulting to Fortune 500 companies around the world. Jim has a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Indiana State University. Jim has held positions of university teacher and clinical psychologist before moving into the world of organizational learning and development in the early 1990s.
Since then, Jim has served as a career development consultant, management consultant, MBA program instructor, and as the founder and director of First Indiana Bank's corporate university. Jim worked as the senior evaluation consultant for Corporate University Enterprises, Inc. until joining SMR USA consulting group in early 2007. With SMR USA, Jim has conducted workshops and consulting engagements with such clients as Harley-Davidson, L'Oreal, Ingersoll Rand, Honda, Printpack, Clarian Health, SABIC, Occidental of Oman, and GE Healthcare. Since 1995, Jim has developed and managed a career development center, worked on senior strategic planning teams, and consulted with organizations all across the world in topics of evaluation, team building, coaching, and leadership, and conducted executive coaching. Jim and the rest of the SMR team co-hosted with Training Magazine the first annual Kirkpatrick Evaluation Summit in February, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jim considers implementing the four levels of evaluation, coaching managers to reinforce training, balanced scorecarding, executing strategy, and change management as his major areas of expertise. Jim has co-written 3 books with his father, and has spoke at conferences in 4 continents just in the past 5 years. He is currently working on a cutting edge new book, Training on Trial.
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