• American Farm Bureau
• American Financial Services Association
• American General Life Insurance
• American Reliable Insurance
• Arizona Association of Life Underwriters
• Arthur J. Gallagher
• AVCO Financial Services
• Bank of the West
• Bank One
• Bankers Life & Casualty Co.
• Barnett Bank
• Canada Life
• Capitas Financial
• Capitol American Insurance
• Chase Manhattan Mortgage
• Chemical Financial Services Corporation
• Chubb Group
• CoastFed Services
• CNA Financial Corporation
• Consumer Bankers Association
• Credit Union Managers Association
• E.W. Blanch Co.
• Farm Bureau Life
• Farmers Insurance Group
• Financial Concepts Group (Canada)
• Financial Management Services
• First Interstate Bank Mortgage
• Franklin Resources Inc.
• Griffin Financial Services
• Hawthorne Savings
• Home Savings
• Int’l Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
• Investment Management Research
• John Deere Credit Services
• Life Agency Management Program (GAMC)
• Lincoln Investment Planning
• LNC Equity Sales
• Massachusetts Financial Services
• Massachusetts Mutual
• Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)
• Mutual of Omaha
• NATWEST Mortgage
• Nat’l Assoc. of Tax Practitioners
• New York Life
• Norwest Bank
• Norwest Mortgage
• Oklahoma Bankers Association
• Pacific Mutual
• Phoenix Life
• Primus Automotive Finance
• Prudential Insurance Company
• Reliance Standard Life Insurance
• Robert W. Baird & Co.
• Sanwa Bank
• Saskatchewan Government Insurance
• Security Pacific Financial Services
• Sentry Insurance Co.
• Smith Barney Shearson
• State Accident Insurance Fund
• State Compensation Fund
• Sun Life Insurance
• Texas Credit Union League
• Transamerica Insurance
• United Group Associates
• U.S. Bank
• U.S. Treasury Executives Institute
• US Bancorp Securities
• Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co.
• West One Bank
• Western Pension Conference

Jim Cathcart comes from the financial services industry. He has worked in banking, securities and insurance. His first job after his marriage in 1970 was as a salesperson for IDS, selling mutual funds and insurance.

Later on Jim became an agent and served as sales trainer for Massachusetts Mutual in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1977-1982). During the time he was with that agency they won the President’s Trophy twice! Their sales grew from $17 million per year to over $100 million per year with no increase in the number of agents. This led to 30 other consulting/speaking assignments for Massachusetts Mutual agencies and their home office. As a former banker Jim has worked in data processing, installment loans, and as a teller at three banks in Arkansas. In the 1980-90s he served as a member of the American Bankers Association Executive Development Program Faculty (five years). He authored two special reports for the ABA published in their Competitech series, one on Executive Stress, the other on Customer Service Management. He also authored a training manual on Personal Financial Planning for the U.S. Jaycees. Jim has been featured in the Legacy of Learning on the topic of Strategic Planning for Agencies, 1979, and authored feature articles in Life Association News on three occasions, Managers Magazine (LIMRA), and the Digest of Financial Planning Ideas. In 1997, Jim was a main platform keynoter for the Million Dollar Round Table.

• ABCO
• A Company Ortho
• Alberta Hospital Assoc., Canada
• American Assoc. of Homes for the Aging
• American Heart Association
• American Drug Stores
• American Medical Association
• American Optometric Student Assoc.
• Ames Division of Miles Laboratories
• Association of Healthcare Executives
• Baptist Medical Centers of Birmingham
• Becton Dickinson (BD):
• (BD): Diagnostic Instrument Division
• (BD): Vacutainer Systems
• (BD): Labware Division
• (BD): Technique Products-Europe
• (BD): Microbiology Systems
• Berlex
• Berlex Canada Inc.
• Beverly Enterprises
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield/Delta Dental of KY
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield – Tulsa
• Blue Shield – California
• Boehringer Mannheim
• California Assoc. of Homes for the Aging
• California Nurses Association
• California Optometric Association
• CIBA
• Ciba Pharmaceuticals Division
• Cycare, Inc.
• Dental Laboratory Conference
• Foundation for Hospice and Homecare
• GATE Pharmaceuticals
• Gateway Health Care
• GE Medical Systems
• Gen-Probe
• Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland
• Health Care Financial Assoc.
• Hindsdale Sanitarium and Hospital
• Markson Management Services
• Maxxim Medical
• OK College of Osteopathic Medicine & Surgery
• O.P.T.I.O.N. Care, Inc.
• Pfizer
• Pharmaco/Applied BioScience
• Prudential Health Care
• Sherwood Medical
• Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
• Sierra Health Services
• Support Systems International
• St. John’s Hospital, Springfield, IL
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Alliance
• Sundance Rehabilitation Systems
• Sunrise Medical/Joerns Healthcare/Quickie Design
• Texas Medical Association Auxiliary
• Voluntary Hospitals of America

Healthcare professionals from every division of the medical profession have learned from Jim Cathcart. He has worked with both traditional and non-traditional providers at all levels. His presentations have been to practitioners, administrators, technicians, manufacturers, distributors, researchers and educators.

In addition to the above, Jim Cathcart has personally worked in a hospital (St. Vincent’s Infirmary, Little Rock, Arkansas) and served as a hospital corpsman and medic while in the Army National Guard. Jim understands the “care” in healthcare from the viewpoints of the personnel, the patient, the practitioner and the administrator.

• Alpha Graphics
• Anacomp
• AT&T
• Beltone Electronics
• BICSI
• British Telecomunications
• C&K Components
• Canon
• Cellular One
• Ciba-Geigy Corporation
• Ciba Polymers
• Computer Consoles, Inc.
• COMSYS (Computer Systems)
• Consolidated Comm. Inc.
• Continuum Software
• CSC Logic, Inc.
• CyberTel Cellular
• Diebold Corporation
• Digital Equipment Corporation
• Egghead Computer
• Fuse, Inc.
• GERS Retail
• Harris Corporation
• Hayes Microcomputers
• Honeywell, Inc.
• iLearningGlobal.tv (Senior Faculty Member)
• IBM
• Independent Trust Mark Users Group
• Ingram Micro
• Lantech
• Marketing Information Systems
• Merisel (Computer Services)
• Motorola, Inc.
• NCR
• Nellcor
• Nortel
• Powersoft
• Rosemount Analytical Systems
• Simplex Time Recorders
• S-MOS (Computer Services)
• Software Etc.
• Sony
• TCS Management Group, Inc.
• Tandem Computers
• Toshiba
• TSTN.com (TV show host)
• Xerox

Jim Cathcart has been addressing clients, system designers and users groups in the information and technology industry ever since IBM Selectrics were considered state-of-the-art. Today he is intensely active on-line, has created hours of online training resources, conducts online conferences regularly, and has a powerful message about the human factors which effect both techies and non-techies alike.

• American Building Contractors Assoc.
• Building Service Contractors Association
• California Mortgage Bankers
• Century 21
• Century 21 International
• Century 21 of Canada, Ltd.
• Century 21 of the Pacific
• Century 21 of the Southeast
• Century 21 Region V
• Chase Manhattan Mortgage
• Coldwell Banker
• Concrete Conservation Corporation
• Duncan Group
• Employee Relocation Council
• ERA Pacesetters Partners
• First Interstate Bank Mortgage
• Housing Guides of America
• Houston Apartment Association
• L.J. Hooker Limited, Australia
• Manufactured Housing Association
• Mason-McDuffie Mortgage Corporation
• Michigan Association of Realtors
• Missouri Association of Realtors
• National Apartment Owners Association
• National Association of Realtors
• NATWEST Mortgage
• Norwest Mortgage
• Oklahoma Association of Realtors
• PHH Relocation
• Preferred Properties, Inc.
• R & B Enterprises
• Real Estate Leaders of America
• Realty World
• Realty World of So. California
• Re/Max Promotions
• Texas Association of Realtors
• The Weitz Company, Des Moines
• United Van Lines

Developers, sales associates, brokers, lenders and more have learned from Jim Cathcart since his sales rallies back in the late seventies. Today, Jim brings a compelling message of how to evolve in this challenging business culture and stay on top. His new research and exciting insights add depth as well as fun to every presentation.

In addition to speaking for a wide variety of firms in the Real Estate industry, Jim Cathcart has personally worked in urban renewal, mortgage lending, sales consulting and has studied real estate law.

• AH & MA/ AHLA
• Amfac Hotels & Resorts
• ASAE*
• Biltmore Four Seasons, Santa Barbara
• Benchmark Management Company*
• Canadian Pacific Hotels & Resorts**
• Club Managers Association (Australia)
• Colony Hotels & Resorts
• Crystal Cruises: aboard Crystal Symphony & Crystal Serenity
• Disneyland Hotel
• Fairmont Hotels***
• Four Seasons Hotels: Austin, Westlake Village, Santa Barbara 2014
• Hilton Hotels
• Int’l Society of Hospitality Consultants
• Interstate Hotels
• Journeys End Motels
• La Costa Resort & Spa
• Marriott Hotels
• Meetings & Conventions Magazine
• Meetings World
• MPI
• Mulia Resort & Villas (Bali, Indonesia) 2014
• Nendels Motor Inns
• PCMA
• Ritz-Carlton
• Servico (Royce Hotels)
• S.I.T.E. University
• Successful Meetings Magazine
• Thrifty Rent-A-Car
• Westin St. Francis

As a frequent speaker in the “Meetings Industry”, Jim has been well known for some time among leaders in the Hospitality field.

Jim’s son is the Director of Human Resources for a 5 star hotel and has worked in this industry for more than a decade and a half. This provides Jim (Sr.) with special insights into the challenging situations and a current understanding of issues that most speakers and consultants would not be aware of.

*ASAE booked Jim for multiple national conference keynotes and also retained him to create training programs on member service. * Benchmark, a conference center leader hired Jim to train them in assessing their talents. He spent a week at their National Sales Meeting and later trained their corporate staff in “The Art of Choosing Well.” ** After addressing a meeting of the General Managers in Banff Springs, Canada, Jim created a special video on Managing Customer Service for use throughout the CP system. This was prior to their purchase of the Fairmont Hotels. *** For almost a decade Jim Cathcart conducted seminars and delivered speeches for various groups of Fairmont personnel. His most frequent audiences have been the sales departments and their National Sales Conferences.

Music Industry

Jim Cathcart is also a professional musician: singer/songwriter. One client hired him to be the featured speaker at an international forum in Caracas, Venezuela for 800 business leaders. During the break in Jim’s 3 hour seminar he brought a guitar on stage and started performing popular rock & roll hits from the 60s and 70s. The audience quickly came back into the room and commenced to sing along…in English! They knew all the songs too. Jim got a standing ovation for his performance during the break and again for the rest of his seminar. Since then Jim has performed at Conventions, Parties, Special Events, Art Festivals, in Night Clubs, Restaurants, Bars and House Concerts around the world. His ‘band name’ is “ReZoom The Boom!” and friends often join him on stage. NAMM: the National Association of Music Merchants, is the biggest event in the music industry each year. These conventions draw 100,000 people to Anaheim and a huge crowd to Nashville as well. Jim has attended or presented at four recent NAMM Shows and has conducted sales & management training for a variety of music industry businesses. Kaman Music Company (KMC) & Seymour Duncan are among his clients. Since 2011 Jim has toured the Martin Guitars Factory in Nazareth, PA; the Gibson Factory in Memphis; the Taylor Factory in El Cajon, CA and Seymour Duncan’s factory in Santa Barbara, CA. As a performer Jim Cathcart brings not only his guitar and singing talent but also his 40 years as a speaker and trainer. Jim is happily comfortable on stage and really knows how to “work a room!” For details on the music side of Jim go to: www.GuitarMusicLive.com and see some of the videos, hear the audios and review his song list of hundreds of your favorite hits.