Jim Gray, President of Jim Gray Consultants, LLC, discusses tactics for downsizing with sensitivity during this unprecedented and uncertain time.
About Jim Gray
Jim’s practice has a primary focus on Union Awareness, Avoidance and Labor Relations, but serves other HR related areas such as executive coaching, “positive downsizing”, leadership teambuilding, restructuring, harassment investigations and prevention, employee engagement and leadership development. Today, Jim has over 200 clients in 27 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
For over 20 years, Jim served as the top Human Resources Executive Officer for 2 companies (most recently, Vice President, Human Resources with global manufacturer AstenJohnson’s international corporate headquarters in Charleston, SC).
Jim is a past Chair (1992-1994) and past Board of Directors member of CUE, Inc. Jim was named South Carolina’s 1994 Human Resources Professional of the Year. He was appointed by South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges to the Workforce Education Task Force (origin of the SC Education in Economic Development Act [EEDA]) and appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities and Economic Change. He is a past Board member of the SC State Chamber of Commerce, was former chair and served on the SC Chamber’s HR Committee, is a past member of the National Labor Relations Expertise Panel and the Employee Labor Relations Committee of SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management. Jim previously chaired the Charleston Metro Chamber’s Labor Climate Network and serves on the Chamber’s Business Advocacy Committee. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Charleston Area Trident United Way and currently serves on the Finance/HR Committee.
In 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2017, Jim was featured in HR Magazine’s Labor Relations and Downsizing/Crisis Management cover stories and has been quoted or highlighted in 11 other HR Magazine articles as well as stories appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Charlotte Observer and Charleston Post & Courier.
