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The Jim Camp Group: Delivering Systematic Decision-Based Negotiation^TM

The Jim Camp Group offers the world's first and only negotiation training and project management system in conjunction with real honest-to-goodness expert negotiation training coaches. Together, the negotiation training and management system and the negotiation training coaches empower clients to learn, master, and manage complex multiple negotiations globally, in real time, in a secure online environment.

With strict confidentiality as a cornerstone, The Jim Camp Group's negotiation experts have been flying under the radar since 1987, working negotiations quietly behind closed doors with over 500 corporations. Negotiation training clients are able to develop the negotiation training mindset and characteristics that give them dramatic advantages against the conventional win-win approach to negotiation.

When anyone from The Jim Camp Group gets asked who they are or what they do, they say, "we are negotiation coaches." Each member of The Jim Camp Group has a background in athletics and sports as youngsters and understands the nuances of great coaching. Their belief is that when a negotiation training client fails, the negoitation coach has failed. When a negotiation training client is successful, the client is successful.

What Makes The Jim Camp Group Different from Other Negotiation Trainers?

Biography of Jim Camp, CEO and Founder, The Jim Camp Group

Jim Camp, best-selling author of negotiation books Start with No® and No: The Only System Of Negotiation You Need For Work and Home, is chairman of The Jim Camp Group, founder, CEO, and president of Coach2100, Inc. negotiation training system, and inventor of Systematic Decision-Based Negotiation™. Since 1987, over 100,000 people have used his negotiation training and management system in more than 500 multinational organizations in a diverse array of industries to complete thousands of negotiated business transactions totaling over $100 billion.

Camp and his negotiation training have been featured on CNN, CNBC, numerous radio shows, and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Cosmopolitan, San Francisco Chronicle, The Columbus Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor, and San Jose Mercury News. Knight-Ridder Publications declared his negotiation book "must reading." Camp has lectured on negotiation at many prestigious graduate schools, is a frequent conference keynoter on negotiation, and has taught his negotiation training methods in nine countries on three continents.

For 20 years, Camp has been one of the best-kept secrets in the corporate negotiations world. He works with very strict confidentiality agreements. If you could talk to one of his negotiation training clients they would tell you he loves to hide in the weeds advising his negotiation clients on what to do next in their negotiations. His contrarian negotiation training system is the first that is not compromise-based or assumption-based. Hundreds of organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, use his one-of-a-kind proprietary Internet-based negotiation training and project management system, Coach2100.com. Camp's negotiation technology provides a complete system of negotiation training, negotiation support coaches, interactive negotiation simulation practice, and reference library support. With the negotiation training system, negotiation training clients are empowered to conduct and manage negotiations anywhere in the world in real time, in a secure environment with multiple negotitation team members. Coach2100 is the only technology of its kind in the world. No other organization has such capabilities.

Camp served his country for seven years. He is a Vietnam Veteran and Air Force pilot. He holds a degree from Ohio State University in Education, Biological Sciences, and Health and Physical Education.

Camp lives in Austin, Texas, Vero Beach, Florida and Dublin, Ohio with his wife Patty. They have five children and six grandchildren.