Jim Ramerman is Co-CEO and co-founder of McArdle Ramerman & Co. He is a highly experienced, results-oriented leader in his own right and an innovative organizational consultant. Jim has spent more than 25 years helping leaders, their teams and organizations find better ways to work to achieve their goals.

Jim provides an encouraging and probing consultative presence. He invites his clients to find answers by getting clear about themselves and their organizations. He leads minds to higher functioning and teams to better results as they work the key drivers of leadership: clarity, credibility and encouraging presence.

He has provided leadership training, executive coaching and consulting, conflict management and organizational development to a variety of public, private, family-owned and not-for-profit organizations. These include–but are not limited to–engineering, education, hospitality, high tech, healthcare, advertising, retail, manufacturing, community services and professional services.

As a PhD candidate in social science through Syracuse University, Jim concentrated on interpersonal and group conflict management, leadership and group dynamics. He has an M.A. in theology from St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California and a B.A. in education from California State University, Humboldt, where he also received teaching credentials in secondary education for the State of California.

Jim has a wide range of credentials in leadership assessment and conflict management, including executive coaching certification from both the International Coach Federation and Royal Roads University. His specializations include CEO coaching, developing high-potential leaders; conflict management; succession planning and building high-performing teams. Some of that knowledge is shared in the book he co-wrote with Sherri McArdle, "Why Dogs Wag Their Tails: Lessons we can learn about work, joy and life."

He leads curriculum design and serves as a core faculty member of the Leadership Coaching Course conducted by the Leadership Learning Collaborative, a collaboration between the University of Rochester Warner Center and McArdle Ramerman & Company.

Jim’s many years of partnership with the people of Borgne, Haiti, have given him a rich perspective on life, values and change leadership. He has served for a number of years as board chair and board member for HOPE Haiti. He is married to a leader and priest, Mary Ramerman, pastor of Spiritus Christi and has three incredible people who are his adult children: Matt, Kristin and John.