Jim McCarthy



Founder,
Jim McCarthy Leadership

Happiness Workshop: Find Your Pleasure, Purpose & Peace is a deeply personal, highly interactive, 3-hour presentation & discussion led by Jim McCarthy. This internationally acclaimed workshop helps you contemplate transitions, your career, legacy, relationships, & purpose. It's packed with anecdotes, research, exercises & actions for how to be happy - right here, right now. Jim brings his unique perspective - as a Stanford MBA, Internet pioneer, world traveler, father, & person living with a cancer diagnosis. More here: http://jimmccarthy.com/

From Heidi Roizen - Venture Capitalist, Corporate Director, Educator:
Tremendous experience. I am very glad I did it & highly recommend to others that they do this!

From Brian Rumao - Chief of Staff to the CEO, LinkedIn:
Thoroughly enjoyed Jim McCarthy's Happiness workshop, which introduced new, thought-provoking lessons. Already find myself adopting several of the practices every day. Highly recommended to anyone looking for an impactful & self-reflective session.

From Mr. Mike Orsak - General Partner, Worldview Technology Partners:
Jim led a highly informative & interactive workshop where we were able to get to very deep & meaningful life issues. Jim got rave reviews! I highly recommend working with Jim. You will remember the material from the session for a long time!

When Jim presented this workshop at General Assembly in SF on September 15, 2016: Average Feedback Score: 9.6 (1 = Absolutely Worthless. 10 = Incredible)

• Embrace that you are mortal, & therefore make vastly better choices regarding your health, career, family, & community


• Realize the difference between pleasure & meaning, & how you need both to feel happiness & peace


• Create an action plan for bringing more happiness into your life immediately


• Develop practices to overcome stress, anger, fear, & frustration, so you can live more fully

Jim McCarthy

Founder,
Jim McCarthy Leadership

Jim McCarthy is a motivational speaker & leadership consultant. He has over 19 years of executive & board-level experience at Silicon Valley start-ups. He became employee # 258 at Yahoo in 1997, & later worked at NexTag, BlueLithium, & Answers.com. Earlier in his career, Jim was an English teacher in Frankfurt, a business journalist in Madrid, & a McKinsey consultant in Munich. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa (Phi Beta Kappa), was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, & earned his MBA from Stanford. He lives in San Francisco.