Member Spotlight - Jim Cathcart

Jim Cathcart
Speaker, Author

"Getting to Know" Jim Cathcart

What is your name and title?
Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE
President & Founder of Cathcart Institute, Inc.

What does your company do?

Intelligent Motivation for a challenging world.
Speeches, Seminars, Coaching, Training, Consulting plus books & recorded programs.

Tell us a little about your background:
32 year veteran professional speaker and author. Past president of the National Speakers Association, member Speaker Hall of Fame, author of 14 books (two bestsellers), recipient of the Golden Gavel Award, Cavett Award, Legends of Speaking Award, and more.

What are 2 or 3 notable achievements you’d like to share?

Created the professional competencies program on which NSA’s education is built.
Wrote the first book on Relationship Selling.
Delivered speeches in all 50 states and many foreign countries.

How I got to where I am today?
Began as a trainer and facilitator of other people’s programs, bought a psychological research firm, worked with over 2,600 client groups over 32 years around the world.

Why I do what I do:
I believe that our purpose here is to live fully, to use our many talents and interests to benefit others. I help people gain the confidence and clarity to grow to their optimum.

Best books I've read lately:
Live A Thousand Years by Giovanni Livera
A Magnificent Catastrophe (America’s first political campaign) by a Pepperdine Professor whose name I’ve forgotten.
A Champion’s Mind by Pete Sampras
You’ve Got To Be Believed To Be Heard by Bert Decker

My Mentor/Coach:
I’ve had and still have many to whom I turn for guidance.

Words to live by or favorite quote:
My Daily Question: “How would the person I’d like to be do what I’m about to do?”

What I do in my free time/hobbies:
I ride my sport-touring motorcycle in the Santa Monica Mountains, play my guitar and sing, run the mountain trails around my home and workout at the gym, and watch my grandchildren grow.

Visit www.cathcart.com to learn more about Jim!