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you to thrive
Providing expertise and guidance on strategic planning, policy development, and the implementation of innovative solutions for the challenges facing businesses, public agencies, and non-profits of all sizes.
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Jim Goodwin led non-profit and public agencies for over 30 years. His final 17 years he served as City Manager in three different California communities, managing teams and multi-million dollar operating and capital budgets. Jim retired from public service in 2025 and founded JWG3consulting LLC to continue helping teams in organizations of all sizes and complexity discover opportunities for improvement. Jim is a member of Collaborative Commons, adding depth of resources to meet your needs.
Our Services
Embrace challenges to reach your teams strategic goals—on schedule and within budget. Let’s transform your vision into reality together!
Team Building
Foster collaboration, enhance communication, and leverage diverse strengths to drive collective success.
Strategic Planning
Set clear objectives, analyze internal and external environments, and develop actionable initiatives to help guide your organization toward its long-term goals.
Project Development
Carefully planning, executing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals within defined timelines and budgets.
Organization Improvement
Helping your team see your organization and pinpoint your greatest opportunities for improvements.
The System
Endorsements
In local government, time and clarity are everything—and Jim Goodwin brings both. His approach to process mapping helped me see bottlenecks I hadn’t recognized and sparked discussions that led to real, practical improvements. His facilitation style is collaborative, respectful, and grounded in a strong solutions mindset. Any municipality or organization seeking to optimize its workflow would benefit from his expertise.
I have worked with Jim in various capacities for more than 25 years. He excels at, and is committed to, helping teams and individuals succeed. I recommend him highly!
Jim Goodwin takes the initiative to listen, really hear, and motivate stakeholders who might otherwise not engage at all, to respond with their higher potential, aligning their interests to find the best outcomes. Jim has the ability to see the bigger-picture outcomes, fostering collaboration to formulate a plan, and executing it with tenacity. When a problem is identified, he addresses it—ignoring problems is not an option.
I have known Jim Goodwin for more than 30 years and have watched his leadership in a wide range of high-stakes executive roles, from Chamber Executive to City Manager in multiple communities. What consistently sets Jim apart is his rare combination of visionary foresight and disciplined, practical execution.
Jim has always understood that an organization is only as strong as its systems and the people who run them. As an executive, he didn’t just focus on setting policy; he focused on strengthening the human system. He built and led high-performing teams that not only met the demands in front of them, but also improved how services were delivered over time.
His current work with JWG3Consulting is a natural extension of that leadership. Jim’s deep, hands-on experience allows him to look beyond the immediate crisis, diagnose the real issues, and redesign core systems so public agencies and communities are not only able to survive, but are truly positioned to thrive and grow their capacity over the long term.
If you want a partner who can both articulate a better future and provide the blueprint for building it, Jim is a strategic choice you can trust.
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