Consulting

Jim Karger and Dave Riveness (individually or as a team) provide ongoing consulting to large and small businesses alike:

Jim Karger

Jim works with employers who value and take responsibility for employee satisfaction and happiness and who desire to reap the rewards of increased productivity and decreased turnover that result from a more satisfied workforce.

Among the things Jim can do for your firm:

  • Evaluate your workplace culture, identify its strengths and weaknesses, and identify ways to make it one that manifests care, compassion, and concern for everyone,
  • develop internal communication programs,
  • Train managers and supervisors to "credibly connect" (TM) with their workers and with each other,
  • Help firms maintain non-union status--not because they despise unions, but because Jim understands--from decades of hard-won experience, that in firms which do the right thing, unions are unnecessary and usually unwelcome,
  • Help executives develop a broader vision for their firms and their workers, and prepare speeches and articles that express this broader vision

Jim Karger and his unique approach to employee relations has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Texas Business, and many other publications. After 30 years as a valued advisor to hundreds of companies and industry associations, he has developed a systematic approach to improve communications, relationships, and connections in the workplace. He is a popular speaker on workplace topics including "Transforming Your Workplace As If People Mattered," "Doing the Right Thing - Maintaining Your Non-Union Status For The Right Reasons," and "Sex, Lies, and Videotape -- But Mostly Just Lies -- Sex and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace."

Described in the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best at what he does," Karger is no apologist for corporate America. He puts aside political correctness to observe the American workplace as it is and provides practical ways to make it better.

For more information about the consulting Jim can provide your organization, contact him here or through his website at: www.crediblyconnect.com

Dave Riveness

Dave has experience working with a variety of organizations – from small start ups to Fortune 500 corporations – who want to build a strong foundation or move to the next level of performance.
After working with such industry leaders as Warner Bros., NIKE, ESPN, Pfizer, The American Heart Association and Citibank on a variety of topics relating to organizational and individual effectiveness Dave understands what works and what doesn’t.

In addition to consulting, David has personally hosted training workshops and speaking engagements ranging in scale from more intimate classroom-style engagements to large-scale, more formal venues with over 3,500 attendees. Dave’s experiences have been global in scope, facilitating and speaking across the world including such diverse locations as India, China and Brazil.

Among the things Dave can do for your firm:

  • Evaluate and enhance individual and group performance around such areas as: leadership, teamwork, communication, perception and goal setting.
  • Develop strategies to build and maintain an effective and focused culture
  • Create and leverage effective teams
  • Develop or expand organizational understanding of mission and values
  • Provide facilitation for meetings and gatherings to ensure objectives are met

Described by JetBlue Airways as one who “inspires new ways of thinking while guiding people to do the right thing”, Riveness is committed to bringing positive change to organizations through consulting, keynote speaking, training and coaching.

For more information about the consulting Dave can provide your organization, contact him here or through his website at: www.corporatejester.com.