Your conversation’s friend
Jim helps professionals strengthen practical conversational skills through teaching, writing and decades of real-world experience.
A practical point of view
Born in the Midwest in 1950, Jim learned his first language—body language—before he learned to speak. As the youngest of five siblings, he learned early to speak up and find his place in a crowded house.
After seventy-five years and tens of thousands of conversations, Jim brings together practical experience in sales, radio broadcasting, human intelligence collection and elicitation. His work turns that experience into clear models for conversations that matter.
Jim is no longer punching the clock but still traveling and training people in elicitation, effective questioning and conversation management across the United States and around the world.
Start a ConversationThe experience behind the work
Jim’s background gives Strat Talk its practical point of view: listen closely, ask with purpose and help people find what matters.
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Jim sold cemetery properties at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, trained sales personnel and worked as a regional sales manager. As a radio broadcaster, he learned to hold meaningful conversations with listeners sight unseen.
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For more than forty years, Jim has worked as a trained interrogator, strategic debriefer, interviewer and instructor in each discipline, including two decades as an interrogator for the U.S. Army and later work for the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Jim developed his elicitation practice through the mentorship and employment of John Nolan at Phoenix Consulting Group in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Today, he shares those lessons through training, writing and conversation.
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