Jim Ball TOPICS: Business Goal Setting Leadership Personal Development FEE CATEGORY:* 5.0k to 10.0k TRAVELS FROM: Virginia Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Books & Videos Request This Speaker

Jim Ball: Profile

James R. Ball is co-founder and president of the Goals Institute, Inc., a company created to help businesses, organizations, and individuals fulfil their potential through goal achievement.

Leadership and Executive Programs
Mr. Ball has provided executive development programs and keynote speeches for corporate clients including: AT&T, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth Business Systems, Inc., Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.P., Domino's Pizza Distribution, Freddie Mac, Landstar System, Inc., Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated, Mobil Oil corporation, ryland Homes, Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc., and The Franklin Life Insurance Company.

Association clients include: American Bankers Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Fincancial Women International, Institute of Real Estate Management, National Association of Insurance Women, Printing Industries of America, Inc., Society of Human Resource Management, and the Business Products Industry Association.

Venture Capitalist
Previously, Mr. Ball was co-founder and managing partner of Venture America, a seed-stage venture capital firm.

Through Venture America he helped finance the launch and growth of over twenty businesses during a twelve-year period. These include: Adaptive Technologies, Inc., Automation Partners International, Binary Arts Corporation, Digene Corporation, SSE Telecom, Inc., Universal Power Systems, Inc., Voice Processing Corporation, and The Discovery Channel

Arthur Andersen
Mr. Ball was at Arthur Andersen for sixteen years where his last position was partner in charge of Andersen's office in Norther Virginia that targeted hight technology and rapid growth firms. He served over one hundred clients during his career including Mars, Incorporated, Marriott Corporation, Digital Switch Corporation, Flow General Laboratories, ONCOR Incorporated, Orbital Sciences Incorporated, Sage Software, Inc., and fourteen companies while he was in Hong Kong.

Mr. Ball was in charge of Andersen's Professional Education Division for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and he helped develop several of the firm's practice methodologies.

University Affiliations
As an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University, Mr. Ball taught the course he created entitled Developing an entrepreneurial mindset. He was cofounder and the first president of the George Mason University Entrepreneurial Institute, Inc., an organization that advances entrepreneurship and business and university relations.

Mr. Ball has presented many broadcasts over the National Technological University satellite network. He also has provide dprograms at the Michigan Small business Development Center at Wayne State University, Fulllerton.

Authorship
Mr. Ball is the author of Soar... If you Dare^¨, The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit, and DNA Leadership through Goal-Drive Mangement^ª.

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