Jim Bottomley

We’ve entered the Innovation Age where maximum change causes stress that divides us.

Jim focuses on the web of needs that unite us. All change is both good and bad, and Jim has learned over thirty years as a futurist working across sectors that there are ways to overcome divergent views by focusing on stakeholder needs. Often hidden, differing need priorities drive all behaviours, attitudes and conflict. When Jim facilitates planning, he aims to help clients create Better Benefit goals, the key to motivation, efficiency and bridge building. Not only do Better Benefits deliver lasting collective and individual success, Jim suggests that this quest is the key to greater happiness.

Jim Bottomley has consulted governments, businesses, nonprofits and individuals to help them find future direction, identify opportunities and cope with the stress of change. Jim`s sessions are always fun and dynamic. He combines aha moments with practical advice to inspire positive change and improve leadership, combining stories from a year backpacking around the world to lessons working across sectors, and revelations from within his own startups. As a professional speaker, Jim has spoken to over one quarter million Canadians about future success strategies.

We’ve entered a new economy where technology transforms and the strategies for future success are changing like never before. After 30+ years of facilitating planning for clients across sectors, helping organizations meet growing needs in better ways, Jim’s Better Benefit focus helps guide technical choice and improves implementation, minimizing the disruption of change. With a background developing new products, including international software, Jim tracks trends to make sense of solutions. Biotech, Blockchain, AI and Big Data will transform processes, leading to new forms of predictable workplace stressors. Experience facilitating work design applied to the seven start-ups Jim has founded proves that technology must be evaluated in human terms and a Culture of Thanks thrives. Jim will share lessons learned across sectors showcasing how to better navigate and lead change effectively.

By focusing on how human needs are changing, Jim identifies the most critical issues facing your organization, explains what is behind them, and guides your future direction with strategies to improve success. His value as a futurist is that he looks at the interplay between technology, economic, social and demographic trends while sharing strategies that cross sectors, often tried first within his own businesses. Change is accelerating and technology is transforming organizations like never before. Jim addresses the stress of change by stimulating innovative rethinking of the approach to planning, work design. leadership and technical implementation.

With each of us confronted by over 4,000 ad messages a day and with all of us facing information overload, effective targeting with an appropriate and clear sales pitch is key.  Jim uses his unique approach developing Better Benefit strategies to boost marketing and sales performance. Increasingly, customer satisfaction measurement combined with social media campaigns will improve customer relationships and drive success. He improves sales team performance.

Jim examines the conditions that produce the best results in the Age of Innovation, looking at the latest methods and ways to improve workplace culture and promote positive change amongst the generations. Jim can demonstrate the power of creating a culture of thanks and can advise of how to avoid the traps that lead to the dark night of the innovator.  His fun style includes communication style coaching and situational leadership training.

Rallying Regional Innovation: Networks & Clusters
Jim has helped organizations and regions innovate, building community capacity in Clusters of interrelated industries in which a region specializes. The Regional Cluster approach to Economic Development drives innovation by forging partnerships between the private and public sector to leverage research, develop new products and services for companies in the region and grow local employment. Jim’s Better Benefit planning approach has helped Clusters succeed in many regions.

Jim has helped organizations and regions innovate, building community capacity in Clusters of interrelated industries in which a region specializes. The Regional Cluster approach to Economic Development drives innovation by forging partnerships between the private and public sector to leverage research, develop new products and services for companies in the region and grow local employment. Jim’s Better Benefit planning approach has helped Clusters succeed in many regions.