Jim Ognibene, M.Ed.

Jim is a People Enabler, Workshop Leader, Career Coach, Facilitator, Learning Catalyst, Training Manager, and Consultant. Jim’s passion is helping both individuals and organizations set and reach personal and professional goals.

Jim has been deeply immersed in the field of Organizational and Talent Development for over two decades. He and his team have designed leadership development, team-building, change management and customer service programs while Jim has personally delivered over 1,300 professional development workshops over a twenty year period. He has grown tremendously through giving and receiving many one on one coaching and mentoring sessions.

He and his team designed and directed an eight-month Emerging Leader Program empowering high potential employees to develop new skills and competencies to build the next generation of leaders. Jim served as project manager and facilitator of workplace engagement interventions during periods of hyper organizational change such as re-configured work processes and re-organizations. Sample workshop titles Jim has led: Leadership Excellence, Situational Leadership, Supervisory Skills, Negotiation Skills, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Facilitating Meetings, Presentation Skills and Instructional Design.

His own professional development includes the following events, conferences and training programs: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualifying Program; Learning and Leadership Conference, Human Capital Institute; Appreciative Inquiry: Social Constructionism Conference, TAOS Institute; Project Management: Skills for Success, Learning Tree; Organizational Design and Analysis, Linkage; Exploring Leadership Conference, Training Officers Consortium; Consultraining: Trainer as Internal Consultant, American Management Association.

Jim has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing from George Mason University, Virginia and a Masters of Education in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Training Advisory Council, a board envisioning the future of training and development for the ninety-five state agencies in the Administration and Finance Secretariat. He is past president of the Boston Trainers Roundtable and the Old South Arts Committee in Boston.

Jim is an avid photographer enhanced by his coursework at the New England School of Photography in Boston. He is chair of the Social Outreach Committee at the First Church and regularly serves as a volunteer in the kitchen at Lifebridge and assists with food distribution on Saturdays at the Salem Pantry.