About Jim Ewing
Jim Ewing has spent 35 years making order out of chaos — in enterprise IT portfolios, C-suite boardrooms, and improv comedy stages. Sometimes all in the same week.
As a Senior Consultant at Integrated Project Management Company (IPM), PMP credential holder since 2001, and a SAFe Scrum Master, Jim brings rigorous, field-tested project and portfolio management expertise to organizations navigating complexity. He translates strategy into execution, aligns teams around what actually matters, and helps leaders make confident decisions with incomplete information — which, let’s be honest, is most decisions.
But what sets Jim apart isn’t just his methodology. It’s his method. After 30+ years as a professional improvisational actor, Jim knows something most consultants don’t: the fastest path to real change isn’t a better framework. It’s getting people to say yes, and — to each other, to uncertainty, to growth.
A Track Record Built on Real Stakes
Jim’s career spans industries where the margin for error is small and the pressure is high — entertainment, healthcare, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and retail.
He founded and led a well known Sports/Entertainment company’s first IT Program Management Office, overseeing a portfolio of major projects and full-lifecycle deliverables over 13 years. At a Healthcare Company, he cut clinic onboarding time from 18 months to 6 months by rebuilding systems integration from the ground up. At a large financial institution, he led a North America-wide technology rollout. At an Electronics Chain, he directed a full end-to-end ERP replacement across merchandising, logistics, and point-of-sale.
These weren’t theoretical wins. They happened inside real organizations with competing priorities, imperfect data, and people who had every reason to resist change — and didn’t, because Jim knows how to bring people with him.
The Improv Edge
The Improv Edge™: Where the Stage Meets the Strategy Room
Here’s something you won’t find on most consulting bios: Jim has performed improvisational acting for over 30 years — at venues across North America, with training at The PIT, The Second City, The Groundlings, and more.
That’s not a fun fact. It’s a professional differentiator.
Improv teaches you to listen — really listen — before reacting. It trains you to stay present when the plan falls apart, to build on what’s in front of you rather than what you rehearsed, and to make your teammates look good, because that’s what wins the scene. These are exactly the skills that separate good project managers from transformational ones.
Jim has developed The Improv Edge™ as a training and coaching framework that applies improvisational principles to change management, executive decision-making, and team dynamics. Because the best strategy in the world still has to be performed by people — in real time, under pressure, without a script.