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About Me

Native of Southern California...still my home. Worked for many years as a geologist and now "coach" people in business to achieve greater levels of success. Married 11 years. Father of two amazing boys.

Location:
United States, Temecula, CA
Current organization:
MorrisonMcNabb
Past organizations:
California State University San Marcos at Temecula
Current role:
Transformational Business Consultant
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Leadership Development and Transformation, Coach - Business
I am:
Business adviser, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Parent, Project manager, Scientist
My website links:
James R. McLaughlin - Transformational Business Consultant, MorrisonMcNabb, TEDxTemecula
Universities:
University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
TED conferences attended:
TEDActive 2013
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I'm passionate about

Nature. Discovery. Games. Language.

My TED Story

Inspired by Tribal Leadership author Dave Logan and triggered by a blog post by Tribes author Seth Godin, I applied for a license to organize a TEDx event and on January 19, 2012 I received word the license had been granted. Our first event in October 2012 was a big success and I and the team look forward to building on it.

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    A comment on Conversation: What do you think of Code.org?

    Mar 6 2013: I was introduced to programming as a child in the early 1970s (my junior high school was rare in that it had a Digital computer). Akin to those in the video, seeing the teletype machine ka-chunk out "JIM MCLAUGHLIN IS GREAT!" was a milestone event. In the 80's, grad school, "Computer Applications in Geology" I spent late hours on campus tweaking FORTRAN 77 to produce more and more beautiful output. Then my dad gave me a Commodore VIC-20, later a C-64 and a C-128. How I longed for an Amiga and Video Toaster! In the 90's taught myself Visual Basic and landed a job (mid-life - temporary - career change). When HTML got complicated, I "retired." Until I discovered code.org (2 days ago) I had taken for granted how much coding had been part of my life and hadn't considered how that type of thinking (logic, problem solving) could be taught in a way that is addictive. In my home I hope code.org becomes the new Minecraft.

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