Jim Carlough

Jim Carlough is The Leadership Identity Architect—a battle-tested C-suite operator who has spent 30+ years proving that leaders aren't born, they're built. Having scaled organizations from $100M to $1B under the mentorship of business icon Ross Perot, Jim discovered the real crisis holding back organizational leadership: the Identity Gap. Most leadership development fails because it addresses skills without addressing belief. Your technically brilliant managers—the ones with proven track records—don't think they're "leadership material." They see leadership as an innate gift they lack, not a learnable craft they can master. Jim's proprietary Six Pillars framework transforms this limiting belief by architecting a new leadership identity anchored in Integrity, Focus, Compassion, Stability, Empathy, and Humor— human qualities that can't be automated and won't be replaced by AI. Through keynotes, workshops, and his 12-week Executive Leadership Accelerator, Jim helps organizations close their leadership pipeline crisis by building confident, values-driven leaders from their existing technical talent—saving millions in turnover costs and unlocking transformational performance.