Jim Emrich has thirty-eight years of experience in the fields of, general management, corporate finance, leadership development and organizational behavior.

Jim’s professional responsibilities have included CFO of a multi entity not-for-profit health care chain; Presidential Exchange Executive serving in the Department of Health and Human Services; Senior management at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and; Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of a privately held enterprise which provided organizational consulting services and marketed employee assistance programs.

Jim’s undergraduate degree is from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce with a concentration in corporate finance and his graduate degree in hospital administration is from the University of California, Berkeley. He has held adjunct faculty appointments at both the Universities of Pennsylvania and California and Bethel Seminary of the East.

During his career, Jim has served on 20 boards, both for-profit and not-for-profit and has a particular interest in trustee governance. He is a Lilly Endowment Trustee Educator.

In 1991, Jim established a consulting practice grounded in the discipline of servant-leadership.  His client engagements have been with a variety of enterprises including for-profit firms such as Teleflex, Inc., The Bank of Montreal, The Wilmington Savings Fund Society and Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter, ECONET; religious enterprises such as McCormick Seminary, The Sisters of Charity in New York, the Sisters of Mercy in St. Louis and Sojourners/Call to Renewal; not-for-profit enterprises such as Elwyn, Inc., Leadership Oklahoma and The Hyde School; and peace and justice organizations such as the Center for Ethical Leadership and the Martin Luther King Center.  He has also been active for many years in a small action research group that is endeavoring to develop a practical theology of institutions which can be used in the workplace.  Finally, he has been certified as an MBTI facilitator and an administrator of the values clarification tools developed by Corporate Transformation Tools.  He has also been trained in the disciplines of Contemplative Dialogue and Appreciative Inquiry.

Jim’s guiding values are: Commitment, Community Service, Friendship, Human Rights, Independence, Making a Difference, Perseverance, Risk-taking, Trust, Vision.

Jim and his wife, Wendy, live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and Waitsfield, Vermont.  They have been blessed with two children and two grandchildren.  They are avid hikers and love to kayak.