James Bandrowski

Jim Bandrowski is president of Strategic Action Associates in Danville, Calif., and author of Corporate Imagination–Plus: Five Steps to Translating Innovative Strategies into Action (Simon & Schuster). Industry Week stated: “James Bandrowski's system emphasizes action that helps companies beat their competition.” In May 2009, he coauthored his second book, Discover Your Inner Strength, with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, and Brian Tracy. 

Bandrowski helps clients achieve remarkable measurable results in health care, high tech, oil, consumer products and services, industrial equipment, business services, and government and nonprofit organizations. Clients include GE, Disney, Merck, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Kodak, TRW, Electronic Arts, Mazda, Suntory, Chevron, Exxon, Saudi Aramco, Safeway, Century 21, First National Bank, MITRE, Vlasic Pickles, Kaiser Permanente, HealthNet, the U.S. Navy, and various cities.

Before founding Strategic Action Associates in 1984, Bandrowski was director of planning for DiGiorgio Corporation, a $1 billion conglomerate in San Francisco. He helped the company’s 10 food processing, building materials, and distribution businesses to out-innovate their competition. Prior to that, he was director of planning of Systron-Donner (a high-tech conglomerate), a senior planner with Kaiser Industries, and a management consultant with Stone & Webster. At Becton-Dickinson, he was in R&D, product design, design of automated manufacturing processes, manufacturing engineering, and was new products coordinator. Bandrowski received two patents and was published in Clinical Chemistry magazine for a discovery in fluorometric chemistry.

Bandrowski is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has an MBA in accounting from NYU, an MS in management science/industrial engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a BE in chemical engineering from Villanova University. He is an adhoc faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other university executive education programs, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.