Jim McCormick
Risk author, speaker and skydiver
Jim McCormick is an American author, speaker and professional skydiver who focuses on intelligent risk-taking. He wrote The First-Time Manager.
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American Born in Denver, United States
About Jim McCormick
McCormick founded the Research Institute for Risk Intelligence in 2013. He has set skydiving world records and took part in an international expedition that skydived to the North Pole. His earlier career was in real estate, construction and architecture, and he was chief operating officer at the firm Anshen+Allen Architects. He also held a government post in Washington, DC, for three years under President Reagan. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. He also wrote Business Lessons from the Edge and The Power of Risk, and The First-Time Manager was a bestseller.