Who is TeamTrainers?

TeamTrainers^TM Consulting is the team development practice operated by "Head Coach" Jim Morgan. Jim is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP^®) and first trained self-directed work teams in 1994. He held management positions in several industries and has been a trainer, project manager, and technical writer, working at such varied organizations as Microsoft, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Washington State University, and the supplier of a major component of the Apple iPod^® . Jim holds a master's degree from the University of Missouri and a graduate certificate in project management from the University of Washington. He has formal training in adult instruction and job task analysis and has taught everything from meeting facilitation skills to the martial arts over 25 years.

Jim added exhaustive research of the academic and business literature about business teams to his real-world team development experiences to develop the unique SuddenTeams® Program . He founded TeamTrainers in 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, and has since relocated to Seattle, Washington.

Appointed by the King County Council to the Citizens' Elections Oversight Committee investigating problems with the county election process in 2003-4, Jim contributed much of the language in the committee's report in sections related to management techniques. Jim is an active member of the Three Treasures (Zen Buddhist) Sangha and was a martial artist for more than 20 years, earning two black belts. He lives in downtown Seattle with his ferret Minna, where he sails, writes fiction, and plays congas for fun.