Jim Gehring
Revealing the unseen forces that slow organizations down—so clarity, alignment, and momentum can take root.
Meet Jim
Personal Profile
Jim Gehring brings uncommon clarity to the hidden forces that shape organizational performance—revealing the systemic dynamics that create organizational gravity and silently stall innovation, alignment, and results.
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As the founder of Foundatia and architect of the Strategic Growth Engine, Jim helps C-level leaders unlock greater value and productivity across their organizations by aligning strategy, culture, and operations into one coherent, adaptive ecosystem.
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With over 35 years of experience across 11 startups, Fortune 500 firms, and years serving Fortune 100 clients, Jim has worked inside the engine rooms and boardrooms of transformation. His leadership spans from scaling a managed services firm to guiding enterprise-wide modernization for companies like BP, GE Lighting, Intel, and Roche Genentech.
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Whether helping teams recover from stalled initiatives or guiding executive offsites through strategic renewal, Jim meets complexity with clarity—and delivers frameworks that translate vision into velocity.
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Audiences consistently describe Jim’s talks as grounded, catalytic, and insight-rich—the kind of perspective that quietly shifts how leaders see their work, and what becomes possible next.
Signature Talks
Disruption Without Destruction:
How to Lead Through What Breaks Without Breaking Your Team
Disruption isn’t coming—it’s already here. But not all disruption is destructive. In this keynote, Jim Gehring reveals how organizations can meet the moment with clarity instead of chaos. Drawing on decades of experience helping companies modernize, integrate, and evolve, Jim shares how to harness disruption as a strategic accelerator—not a slow-motion train wreck.
Audiences will learn:
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Why most initiatives fail before they begin
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The critical difference between adapting to change and evolving through it
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How to align leadership, culture, and systems in the midst of volatility
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Tactical tools to calm the noise, focus priorities, and restore momentum
This talk is a powerful reminder that the best leaders don’t just survive disruption—they lead it.
From Stalled to Scaled:
Fixing What Slows Down Growth Before It Breaks the Business
Growth isn’t just about more—it’s about smarter. This talk unpacks the hidden structural and behavioral friction points that slow even the best companies down. Jim helps leaders recognize the early signals of misalignment and offers a roadmap for designing growth that is intelligent, integrated, and sustainable.
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Perfect for: Industry conferences, digital transformation leaders, executive offsites.
Perfect for: CEOs, scale-up leaders, transformation leads
Building the Fabric:
Why the Future of Enterprise Resilience is Human-Centered Systems Thinking
Too often, transformation efforts fail because they treat people as barriers to fix, rather than agents of change. Jim makes the case for designing systems that include—not override—the human element. This talk blends systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and organizational design into a new blueprint for what resilience really looks like.
Perfect for: Innovation events, systems leadership audiences
