James M. Strock is principal of James Strock & Co., providing
management consulting, communications and negotiation/dispute
resolution services, based in San Francisco.
From March 1991 through May 1997 Mr. Strock served in Governor Pete
Wilson's cabinet as California's first Secretary for Environmental
Protection. He assisted the Governor in his successful creation of
the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). During
Mr. Strock's service in the Wilson Administration significant
advances were achieved in protection of California's air, land and
water-while simultaneously reforming, simplifying and updating the
state's historically Byzantine regulatory process. Among the
Agency's recognitions was a $100,000 "Innovation" award from
Harvard University and the Ford Foundation.
From 1989 until 1991, Mr. Strock served in President Bush's
subcabinet as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement (chief law
enforcement officer) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
His office was instrumental in the development of the
Lieberman-Wilson Pollution Prosecution Act of 1990, signed by
President Bush. In 1988-89 he served as General Counsel and as
Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during
the transition from the Reagan to the Bush Administration. In 1998
he served as an appointee of Governor Wilson on the California
State Personnel Board.
Mr. Strock's other work experiences range from private law
practice, to service as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate
Environment & Public Works Committee and as a special assistant to
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William D.
Ruckelshaus. In the 1978 and 1980 election cycles he was research
director for Bailey, Deardourff & Associates, participating in
numerous statewide political campaigns across the country. Mr.
Strock was a senior analyst in President Reagan's 1984 reelection
campaign.
He was educated at Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law
School and New College, Oxford (Rotary Scholarship). Mr. Strock is
a frequent writer for general and professional publications. His
book, Reagan on Leadership- Executive Lessons from the Great
Communicator, was released by Prima Publishing in hardback in 1998
and in softcover in 1999
Beginning in 1973-74 when he moderated and produced a weekly
television program on WDSU-TV (NBC, New Orleans), he has been a
frequent public speaker. Mr. Strock has spoken in Mexico, Europe
and Asia under auspices of the U.S. Information Agency, U.S. Agency
for International Development, Deutsche-Umwelthilfe, the government
of Bavaria, the Confederation of British Industry, the
Confederation of Indian Industry and other public and private
groups.
Mr. Strock is a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute
(San Francisco). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
(New York) the Pacific Council on International Policy (Los
Angeles), the American Arbitration Association, the American Bar
Association (sections on Dispute Resolution, and Environment,
Energy & Resources), and the Society of Professionals in Dispute
Resolution. In 1996 Mr. Strock served as chair of the United
California State Employees Campaign. A long-time advocate of
national service, he served to captain in the U.S. Army Reserve
Judge Advocate General Corps (1987-1996), was a volunteer in the
Big Brothers (1983-86) and a member of the board of directors of
Youth Service America (1988-89). He is a member of the board of
directors of the Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually
Impaired in San Francisco.
Praise for Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership:
"The great thing about U.S. presidents is that as chief executives
of the most complex organization on earth, their wisdom is
invaluable to business leaders. This book renders its subject as an
aggressive, risk-taking master of PowerPoint-friendly advice." —
Forbes.com
"Vigorous is the best word to describe Teddy Roosevelt and Strock
does a fine job of communicating the energy with which our 26th
president approached every aspect of his life." — Business Review
Reader
"This book is filled with invaluable lessons for twenty-first
century leaders. It deserves a place on every executive's
bookshelf." — John C. Maxwell, author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of
Leadership, founder of INJOY
"Strock's book may well become a kind of Bible to many people, a
manual for inspiration that people will keep in the office desk, on
the bedside table, or in the briefcase for easy and quick renewal."
— Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Praise for Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership:
"The great thing about U.S. presidents is that as chief executives
of the most complex organization on earth, their wisdom is
invaluable to business leaders. This book renders its subject as an
aggressive, risk-taking master of PowerPoint-friendly advice." -
Forbes.com
"Vigorous is the best word to describe Teddy Roosevelt and Strock
does a fine job of communicating the energy with which our 26th
president approached every aspect of his life." - Business
Review Reader
"This book is filled with invaluable lessons for twenty-first
century leaders. It deserves a place on every executive's
bookshelf." - John C. Maxwell, author of The 21 Irrefutable
Laws of Leadership, founder of INJOY
"Strock's book may well become a kind of Bible to many people, a
manual for inspiration that people will keep in the office desk, on
the bedside table, or in the briefcase for easy and quick renewal."
- Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
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