Jim Dezieck has enjoyed a long association with MOR Associates as both client and collaborator, most recently serving as a leadership coach in MOR's Sloan Fellows Executive MBA program at MIT. Jim brings to those he serves 30 years of organizational development experience from both the education and biotech sectors.
Jim’s experience includes service as a senior management development consultant at Harvard's Center for Training and Development. He was both a human resources officer and a senior organizational development consultant on MIT's Organization and Employee Development team. While at MIT Jim was awarded MIT's "Infinite Mile Award" for service to the MIT community.
For close to 10 years Jim has practiced in the biotech world through his roles in Wyeth and Pfizer's biotech divisions. There he contributed in roles that ranged from frontline lean production implementation to global biotech executive team development. While at Pfizer Jim was named a "Pfizer Global Health 'Entrepreneurial Fellow" and loaned to the International AIDS Society (Geneva, Switzerland) for six months to build that organization's ability to advance the global fight to eradicate HIV.
Jim is passionate about advancing the power of leadership. Special professional interests are the role of adult developmental stages in supporting advanced leadership, the power of health practices in supporting performance, and international collaboration, the latter fed by two extended international living experiences in Antwerp, Belgium and Geneva.