James P. Ware

Jim Ware is a workplace futurist and meeting design strategist. A former Harvard Business School professor, he has invested his entire career enabling clients to invent their own futures by exploring and interpreting the changing nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace. He facilitates conversations and collaborative learning, builds scenarios of alternative futures, and transforms ideas and insights into bottom-line results.

Jim is the founder and Chief Meeting Design Strategist of Making Meetings Matter, a firm focused on enabling change leaders to orchestrate collaborative conversations that are aligned with the digital age we now inhabit. He also founded The Future of Work...unlimited and serves as Global Research Director for Occupiers Journal Ltd., the publisher of Work&Place. Additionally he is a Partner with The FutureWork Forum.

Previously, Jim held senior management positions at several leading-edge professional services firms, including KPMG (now Bearing Point), Computer Sciences Corporation, Unisys Corporation's Information Services Group, and The Concours Group, where he led a number of futures investigations and served as Executive Director of the HR Concours, a membership organization limited to Chief HR Officers of Fortune 100 companies.

Jim's latest book, "Making Meetings Matter: How Smart Leaders Orchestrate Powerful Conversations in the Digital Age," was published in February 2016. Visit the book website at www.makingmeetingsmatter.com/the-book

Corporate Agility (2007), co-authored with Charles Grantham and Cory Williamson, addresses the need for organizations to coordinate and integrate HR, IT, and CRE/facilities to develop new business capabilities for competing in a flat, global economy. Corporate Agility was named one of the ten best business books of 2007.

Jim is also Editor in Chief and a principal writer for the monthly newsletter "Future of Work Agenda," and he posts regularly on the Future of Work and the Making Meetings Matter blogs.

He holds PhD, M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He lives and works in northern California