James Ballard is a management consultant, leadership trainer, motivational speaker, and consulting partner with the Ken Blanchard Companies, and author of What’s the Rush? He founded Maudala Press, a direct-mail educational publishing firm, and wrote a series of children’s books and books for teachers on humanistic education. After meeting Ken Blanchard at the University of Massachusetts, Jim began designing training materials for Blanchard Training and Development. He has helped create a number of widely-used Blanchard Training and Development models including Managing the Journey, Leadership Training for Supervisors, Quality-Driven Leadership, and Everyone’s a Coach.