James Barnes

James Barnes, always a creative thinker, he has applied the innovation process throughout his career in areas such as strategic planning, sales and marketing, education and project management.

James facilitates collaborative action-leaning which has resulted in dramatically increased profits and savings of both time and money. While James managed a Napa Valley estate winery development project, "breakthrough" thinking led to the purchase of earth moving equipment - including a uranium mining machine - to tunnel wine caves saving more than $1 million on a $30 million capital budget.

James considers himself fortunate to have collaborated with outstanding innovators like Piero Antinori, patriarch of a 600-year-old Italian wine family, The Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle, named by Fortune Magazine as one of the investment industry's four "giants of the 20th century", as well as some of the best facilitators of the creative process in the world such as Dr. Sheldon Rovin, emeritus professor at Wharton, creativity pioneer Arthur (Andy) VanGundy of the University of Oklahoma and inventor of "All Star Minds" global creativity resource, and Gerald "Solutionman" Haman, who led a world record-breaking innovation event in Singapore.

James continues to seek new sources of innovation for his clients exploring the possibilities within their own capacity for thinking, communication and coordinated action. James has also consulted in leadership, strategy and project management with Verizon, SAP, Bovis, Panasonic and others. To test the hypothesis that the unbridled ideas of young people can be of value to organizations and communities, he developed "YouthStormers," which taps the skills of college and high school students with a flare for creativity and the ability to think outside traditional organizational and cultural confines.

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