James Desrosiers

About James Desrosiers

Background Information: Since 1994, GROWTHco has been helping clients with strategic…

Experience

1. President & Founder

   Growthco

   May 1994 — Present · Westborough, MA, US

   Strategic Planning, Training, Development, and Executive Coaching that transforms individuals and organizations to their ultimate potential and success. Passionate, committed, and motivational owner of an Organizational and People Development firm that assesses needs, designs plans and facilitates programs. Executes high-quality, high performance, highly customized solutions to optimize individual and company results. Jim has put together a team of 30+ top-shelf trainers, facilitators, and coaches…not to deliver training…to deliver RESULTS.Example 1: Helped determine training needs for over 250 Massachusetts businesses and assisted them in obtaining over $2 million in grant funds from the Workforce Training Fund Program.Example 2: Selected as a Training Provider for a large community bank in Massachusetts to assist in providing a carefully selected catalog of training offerings to advanced managers and staff. Work side-by-side with internal training team to design, develop, and deliver exceptional training experiences and results. They chose GROWTHco because of our action-oriented and goals-based programs. They also enjoy having only one outside vendor, one invoice, and one contact to communicate with and handle all training communications and logistics, while they handle other internal training needs.Example 3: Jim is the lead person working arm-in-arm with internal contacts of a medium-sized and well-respected Accounting and CPA firm. He has conducted strategic planning with the owners and Partners and facilitated leadership and soft-skills training with the entire staff over the last four years. Jim has managed other external subject matter experts and coaches executives at every level.Example 4: Provide personal productivity, goal setting, time management, sales training, and executive coaching services to a leader in the mortgage industry. Result: existing staff saw a 63.9% increase in sales in the first three months of working together.

Education

• Leominster High School

  Diploma, Business

  1982 — 1986

• Cambridge College

  Master of Management, Leadership in Human & Organizational Dynamics/Nonprofit Organization

  2005 — 2007

• Harvard Business School

  Negotiations Mastery

Skills

• Leadership
• Sales
• Program Management
• Time Management
• Business Operations
• Start-Ups
• Strategy
• Performance Management
• Crm
• Process Improvement
• Executive Coaching
• Team Leadership
• Nonprofits
• Motivational Speaking
• Business Development
• Leadership Development
• Consulting
• Radio Host
• Staff Development
• Coaching
• Sales Management
• Training
• Youth Development
• Management
• Strategic Planning