Jim Harcourt is a goal alignment expert. He is an accomplished integrative thinker, who sees the problem, embraces its multi-varied nature, and understands the complex interactions of its human, organizational, policy and structural relationships and uses competing organizational interests.
As a senior executive with over 30 years of experience, Jim founded J. A. Harcourt and Associates Limited in 1999 with the vision of enabling his client base to respond to aggressive (and often volatile or ill-defined) enterprise goals through the identification and achievement of fully integrated, pragmatic and highly innovative alignment of all enterprise goals, strategies and resources.
Since its inception, J. A. Harcourt and Associates has been highly successful in assisting private and public sector enterprises in aggressively achieving their enterprise strategies.
Jim is the creator of the Alignment Model of Governance and the discipline of Contribution Based Budgeting. His alignment methodologies and related software have enabled enterprises to reach levels of alignment and performance previously not achievable through traditional approaches. His success in these undertakings has led Jim to be considered a “Pragmatic Visionary” by many of his executive clientele.
Jim’s executive experience includes Executive and Vice President positions in a variety of corporations including:
- KMPG International
- Campbell Soup Canada
- AVCO Financial Services
- SHL Systemhouse International