Our innovation team includes the best clients and suppliers

James Barnes came to America from England on a Morehead Scholarship in 1973 to study business at the University of North Carolina. James founded his innovation consultancy because he has a passion for helping others succeed and he believes that creativity is an unlimited resource available to those who discover the value of their ideas through innovation.

James helps individuals and teams to achieve personal transformation and deliver extraordinary business results through new thinking, new conversations and new coordinated action. Under James' guidance and encouragement, previously unthinkable goals have been imagined and achieved by individuals, teams, organizations and even communities.

In addition to leading JB Innovation, James teaches Innovation Management at Villanova University
and he also teaches and coaches in Villanova's Executive MBA program. More business context. More personal context.

Our clients are one major reason that our projects are so successful. We insist on the best clients. And we get them! Below are a few pictures of our clients and suppliers in action. There are more pictures throughout the site.

JB Innovation's hires the best talent to meet clients' specific needs. Here are some of the individuals who have worked on projects with JB Innovation:

Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, Ph.D. - Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma, founder of All Star Minds, global brainstorming consultancy; author of 10 books on creativity and a pioneer of creativity techniques.

Andy has worked with JB Innovation on the Ideas Workshop concept and on developing question banks to include many participants in the innovation process. He has co-authored a book on the use of Art in Innovation in which JB Innovation's use of commentated art for the communication of individual visions was featured.

Dr. Sheldon Rovin, DDS, MS - Emeritus professor at the Wharton School of Business author of An Idealized Design of the US Healthcare System, written with Russell Ackoff, and Medicine and Business: Bridging the Gap. Shel is the immediate past Director of Healthcare Executive Management Programs at Wharton Executive Education and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Shel is a systems thinker with a keen practical sense of what can get done. He has worked with JB Innovation on Idealized Design and Innovation. Shel also leads Root Cause analysis breakouts and has a way of asking "Why?" at just the right time.

Tom Berry, Tom has had a distinguished career in Total Quality Management with an emphasis in business process improvement. He worked with James at the Vanguard Group where he led an impressive and innovative quality design team which saved the company and their investor-owners millions of dollars. Tom has been a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner and authored the classic - Managing the Total Quality Transformation.

He is a graduate of Washington College and a decorated veteran. Tom is a member of The American Society for Quality and the Association of Internal Management Consultants and is currently the former President of the Barnegat Light Yacht Club.

Katherine Kubat, is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied Communication. Katherine is an independant thinker who often comes up with "brilliant" ideas and she has a nack for detail that drives projects to success.

When a last plane out of Phoenix was cancelled, Katherine drove the 6 hours to Los Angeles to make the 8 am Needs Assessment client meeting. Katherine is a leader and a team player.