Jim Phills
Chairman

Jim Phills has been involved with Thinkfit ever since the company's inception in 1997. Over the last twelve years he has provided strategic counsel, helping to develop the company's strategy and advance its mission.

On October 1, 2009, Phills became the President and CEO of Thinkfit as part of a major restructuring of the company. To do this he took a leave from his position as the Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) and Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Over the previous eight years, he  built CSI into the leading academic center in the world in the area social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship as recognized by it 's #1 ranking in 2005 and 2007 by the Aspen Institute. Phills  also  co-founded and served as  Academic Editor of the award winning Stanford Social Innovation Review.

He is an expert in the areas strategic management, organizational learning, and social entreprenuership. Phills is the author of a number of publications on learning and change in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, including Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations, published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Prior to Stanford, he was at the Yale School of Management where he received the Alumni Association Award for Excellence in teaching in 1995.

In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Phills has consulted to a wide array of organizations for over 25 years. A partial list of his clients includes: American Electric Power, Dean & DeLuca, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, General Mills, Girl Scouts USA, Herman Miller Corporation, Hoffmann-La Roche, I-CO Global Communications, Kaiser Permanente, the Monitor Group, and the San Francisco Police Department.

An elite athlete, Jim Phills was a 5 time Canadian Junior Champion, Co-captain of the Harvard wrestling team  and the program's first Eastern conference Champion since 1939. After college, he continued his wrestling career competing internationally for both the US and Canada where was the first alternate at heavyweight on the 1984 Canadian Olympic Team. In 2007, Phills came out of retirement to win the U.S. Veterans National Champion,  a feat that he repeated in 2008.

Phills is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, holds a Master's degree in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, and received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School and the departments of Psychology and Sociology at Harvard University.