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 Mr. Mercer is President and Founder of The
Mercer Group, lnc. The firm offers management consulting in the areas of organization and management analysis, privatization, strategic planning, organization development,
compensation and classification, management systems, and executive search primarily in the public sector. Prior to forming The Mercer Group, Mr. Mercer was President/CEO of Mercer, Slavin
and Nevins, Inc., and prior to that he was regional vice president of Wolfe & Associates, both management consulting firms. He has also been Director of Governmental
Consulting Services for Coopers & Lybrand in the Southern Region.
Mr. Mercer was formerly manager of the Industrial Extension Division and the
Resource Productivity Group of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he was a partner and vice president of Korn/Ferry International, where he
regularly conducted searches for executives in both the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining Korn/Ferry, Mr. Mercer was General Manager of Battelle
Southern Operations, a venture of Battelle Memorial Institute. BSO was established to bring a wide range of research and development capabilities to
bear on social, economic, and technological problems at the state, regional and local levels.
Mr. Mercer has also served as national program director for Public Technology
, Inc., in Washington, D.C. where he directed a $10 million multi- sponsored program to increase innovation and technology utilization amongst 27 local
governments. As a former Assistant City Manager of Raleigh, North Carolina, he managed the City's capital improvements program, functioned as the city
budget officer, and was responsible for city-wide management systems. He also spent several years in the private sector and was on the staff and faculty of two major state universities.
Mr. Mercer is a certified management consultant (CMC) with over 30 years of
management consulting experience specializing in organization and management studies, strategic planning, privatization, operations analysis, organization development and training and executive search.
Mr. Mercer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management
and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Certificate in Municipal Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is also a graduate of the Executive Development Program at Cornell University. He has taught and lectured extensively to college, university, local
government, and private-sector groups. He is a corporate member of the International City and County Management Association, a member of the
Institute of Management Consultants and many other professional organizations, and is a consultant to the National Science Foundation. He has
published over 250 articles (including the Harvard Business Review) and reports and has authored or co-authored six books: Public Management Systems; Public Technology: Key To Improved Government Productivity; Managing Urban Government Services; Strategic Planning for Public
Managers; Public Management in Lean Years, and Public Employee Involvement Processes: Adaptive Management. He is currently working on a new book to be entitled Local Government Innovation. Jim has been
quoted in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and other national
and international news media. He has also appeared twice on CNN and is listed in Who's Who In The World, in America, and in Contemporary Authors.
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