Cathcart Institute
Cathcart Institute LLC is an education and research collaboration founded and led by Motivational Expert Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE in 1977 and currently based in Austin, Texas.
The Institute teaches Experts how to become a Thought Leader, a Leading Authority in their field, a Certified Professional Expert, CPE™. This is done through a combination of mentorship, consulting, keynote speeches, seminars and workshops, convention presentations, in-company training and individual coaching for Expert-Based Businesses.
In the last 45 years Cathcart Institute LLC has trained hundreds of thousands in over 3,000 different client organizations. These have covered virtually every industry and profession. Jim Cathcart has personally delivered presentations before more than 3,500 client audiences around the world. These range from the Fortune 500 to consultants, experts, local retailers and service providers.
The Family Man
The Traveler
The Speaker
Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE is one of the top 5 most award-winning speakers in the world. His Top 1% TEDx video has 2.7 million views, his 26 books are translated into multiple languages, including 3 International bestsellers. He is a Certified Virtual Presenter and past National President of the National Speakers Association. Jim’s PBS television programs, podcast appearances and radio shows have reached millions of Success Seekers and he is often retained to advise achievers and their companies.
Even his colleagues, some of the top speakers in the world, have hired Jim to speak at their own events. Jim is a former Executive MBA Professor at California Lutheran University School of Management and serves as their first Entrepreneur in Residence. He has been inducted into the Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame in London for his pioneering work with his concept of “Relationship Selling.” He is also in the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame and has received The Cavett Award and The Golden Gavel Award. In 2021 High Point University presented Jim Cathcart with an Honorary Business Degree.
The Musician
The Author
Jim at a Glance
Motto
Helping People Grow™
Books Written
Number of Paid Convention Speeches
TEDx video number of views:
Speaker Hall of Fame, CPAE
President of the National Speakers Association
Legends of the Speaking Profession Induction
Miles Ridden on a Motorcycle
Songs known to instantly play on guitar & sing without notes
Golden Gavel Award
Cavett Award
Married Paula (Dugger) Cathcart
Largest Speaking Fee
Twice what I paid for my first home
Largest Audience
for the Opening Ceremonies Keynote of the USA Special Olympics in 2010
Coolest Travel Experience
Flown by private jet
to give a speech in France
Prestige
I have met two US presidents
in the White House
- Bill Clinton and Gerald R. Ford
Weird Fact
I was briefly on an episode of
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Most Notable Speech Event
2003 Keynote for
Harley Davidson’s
100-year anniversary
What is "The Cathcart Method™"?
- Become an expert in your field
- Think like a start-up™
- Think as Owners do
- Fully commit or don't play
- Think like your recipient
- Have fun or find a new game
- Suspend selfish interests
- Provide value
- See each step as a beginning
- Excel at gratitude
- Observe intelligently
- Interrupt patterns in order to improve
- Enhance incrementally
- Develop habitual initiative
- Master reputation creation
- Be honest
- Inspect your patterns
- Solve problems skillfully
- Know your role
- Recognize your “Real ESTATE”
- Manage your causation chain™
- Achieve “escape velocity” often
- Do your homework
- Read the manuals
- Meet the parents
- Act on positive impulses
- Capture power minutes™
- Wonder intelligently
- Express desires clearly
- Listen to understand
- Handle relationships intentionally
- Take the first step
- Ask the daily question
- Do it now!
- Assume possible error
- Increase intentionality
- Never stop improving
Let’s discover how much more successful YOU can be!
The Purpose of Life is Living… REALLY LIVING! Stop accepting your limitations, transcend them!
Build the confidence and skills to live the life you were designed to live. Be the expert that the world needs.