
James B. Rosseau, Sr.
Helping leaders achieve sustainable and profitable business growth
James Rosseau, Sr. helps leaders achieve sustainable business growth. He serves on the DeVry University Board of Trustees, is an Executive in Residence at the Kellogg School of Management and is the author of Success on Your Own Terms: 6 Promises to Fire up your Passion, Ignite Your Career and Create an Amazing Life. James…
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James Rosseau, Sr. helps leaders achieve sustainable business growth. He serves on the DeVry University Board of Trustees, is an Executive in Residence at the Kellogg School of Management and is the author of Success on Your Own Terms: 6 Promises to Fire up your Passion, Ignite Your Career and Create an Amazing Life. James has confronted and overcome major challenges. Born and raised in North Philadelphia, an area that does not inspire its residents to reach success, James struggled to gain self-confidence.
He lacked his father’s support, acceptance, and validation; tore his ACL, crushing his football dreams; and did not make it into college as he had planned. But he had a good work ethic, so he just kept going, eventually returning to complete his Undergraduate and Graduate degree. He discovered his passion for helping others and found success.
During his twenty years in leadership in companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Allstate, and LegalShield, James has created and guided high-performing teams through delivering double-digit growth, mergers and acquisitions, offshoring, outsourcing, startups, and well over 300 partnerships. In 2018, James transitioned from the corporate sector to be an entrepreneur and lead his non-profit, The Corelink Solution.
The Corelink Solution is leading a “head and heart” mission, delivering training focused on authentic career development and leadership, along with the creation and curation of supportive media.
In 2018, James transitioned from the corporate sector to be an entrepreneur and led his nonprofit, The Corelink Solution, whose goal is to increase high school graduation and career success rates in low income communities by empowering individuals to reach their potential. The leadership facilitation work he delivers as an entrepreneur allows him to fuel the non-profit.
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MEDTRONIC
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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
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SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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SAP COMPANY
Thank you again, Dr. Kimbrough, for a great presentation, our attendees are still talking about it!

CAMPUS LABS
Dr. Henry Lee's presentation was entertaining, insightful and wise. I, and everyone at Pfizer, especially appreciate the remarks you directed about following your passion and preparing yourself to excel. Thank you, everyone, at PDA for helping to make this happen!

PFIZER
The event was successful! I received many messages expressing how awesome, outstanding and inspiring Ms. Webb-Christburg's speech was."

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MEMORIAL BREAKFAST, BOSTON, MLK SPEAKER
Everything went well. Atsuko was very easy to work with and the students enjoyed her performance! Thank you again for your recommendation and I hope to work with you again in the future!

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Dr. Novello left this morning after a very successful event on our campus! Thank you PDA Group for your help from the first phone to the last you were with us every step of the way.

GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
Jordan Carlos was very very entertaining! A majority of students who answered the event survey indicated they really enjoyed Jordan and definitely will bring him back!

WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
On behalf of myself and my organization Entertainment Unlimited the Campus Programming Board of Ferris State University, we thank you PDA and Dan for a successful event!! Dan was magnificent! Students really enjoyed the presentation. I know I did. Can't wait to bring in more programs with PDA Group.

FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
It was a great pleasure to work with PDA Group! The communication was always prompt, friendly and helpful. We loved the speakers and events we booked through Mr. Peter Walker (PDA Group).

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Thank you, Peter, for all your help, you'll be happy to know that the event went incredibly well! Aneesa Ferreira was by far one of the best speakers we've ever had!

FURMAN UNIVERSITY
Topics
Leading with Intent
Organizations are struggling to achieve sustainable growth. Employee engagement is dwindling. James Rosseau shares his battle-tested formula: Passion, People and Process = Performance. James has served in senior leadership roles within three organizations over the past twenty years, achieving double-digit growth in each. He has led new start-ups, market expansions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, offshoring and more. With this as the backdrop, James takes the audience through a journey. He shares the trials, the defeats, and the triumphs, but most importantly the proven lessons that propelled his team’s success. Participants will leave with an understanding of the five inherent challenges that prohibit transformational growth; an understanding of the three Ps of the formula; and three to five actions that they can take the next day to make near term impact.
Success on Your Own Terms
Turn employee retention and leadership capability issues upside down – – engage your employees at their core. Whether it is dealing with the reality of a more transient millennial segment of the workforce, or the continued challenge of identifying fungible management talent, employers must take decisive and concerted efforts to develop their workforce. James took an unlikely course to reach the C-Suite, overcoming major challenges along the way. As he documented his journey and the practices that helped him, which is changing lives every day. This program will propel your employees towards their ultimate success for your organization and themselves. Participants will leave with actions to immediately improve their performance and a roadmap towards the future.
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James B. Rosseau, Sr. - Billion Dollar Techniques
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