Take-a-lesson: Uncovering Hidden Mentors For Diverse Leaders

Jim Cates sits down with Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere, Founder of Altruistic Leadership and Ed Harris to discuss his leadership journey on Take-A-Lesson. Get to know Jim James E. Cates is the CEO and Founder, LOBI Group, LLC and believes that leadership has three dimensions: attitude, aptitude and efficacy. He has developed a framework for applying this approach to any business task. He founded LOBI, which stands for Ladder of Business Intelligence (BI), a consulting services firm where he is developing management-training modules using his techniques. Jim draws on more than 30 years of executive leadership (CIO / VP)  in software development, IT deployment and corporate management in leading companies including Altera, Brocade, Information Technology Solutions( which evolved into Keane International, Inc.), Synopsys, Silicon Graphics and IBM. He has served on an Ohio State University Engineering Advisory Board for over 20 years. He also holds an MS in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State Universi