He can even trail a custom made banner emblazoned with your organization, conference or a sponsor's logo. Or you can even announce the name of a reward recipient in a truly original way, when he flies in with the person's or organization's name on the banner trailing behind him!

Meeting planners commonly use Jim's parachute arrival in one of the following ways:

• They move the audience outside for the arrival then re-seat them for the presentation.
• They have Jim land during an outdoor reception before his presentation.
• They have him jump into an outdoor function earlier in the day, such as a golf event.

Since 1996, Jim McCormick has assisted organizations including AFLAC, Accenture, Bank of America, FedEX, Hewlett-Packard, Rutgers University, The Clorox Company, Siemens, Verizon, many associations and emerging companies to improve performance with his presentations, seminars, coaching, books and consulting.

Jim’s insights on performance improvement have been featured in publications including Investor’s Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal’s National Business Employment Weekly, Presentations Magazine and the San Francisco Business Times.

Jim has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Jim served in Washington, D.C. as a member of a Presidential administration where he ultimately became the first non-attorney in the history of the U. S. Department of Energy to serve as Special Assistant to the General Counsel.

Jim has extensive business experience and advanced in his career to become the Chief Operating Officer of the fifth largest architectural firm in the United States. He teaches executive level management courses at San Jose State University.

Member of World Team, the largest multi-national sports team ever united to pursue a common goal, which successfully built a 400 person skydiving formation above Udon Thani, Thailand.

Jim holds four skydiving World Records. He skydived to the North Pole as a member of an international expedition and is one of 400 Professional Exhibition Skydivers in the United States.

Jim celebrated his 40th birthday by doing 40 skydives - in one day. On his 45th, it was 45 jumps all in one day. He has done some of the highest altitude civilian skydives in the world - from 31,000 feet.

Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Estes Valley Victim Advocates which helps victims of domestic abuse transition to safe and supportive environments; served as a volunteer fund raising advisor for the Challenge Learning Center which helps teens at risk become productive adults; and is a past president of the National Speakers Association of Northern California.

Other than possibly providing a few of your people to help secure the landing area, that's it. Jim handles the rest of the logistics and authorizations, including the required dealings with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Articles by Jim McCormick:

• The Vision to Prevail in an Economic Slowdown-Peripheral That Is
  

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