About Bristlecone Learning

Bristlecone Learning, Leadership That Lasts, is a global organizational transformation and leadership development company that teaches aspiring, emerging and enduring leaders how to reach their full potential and to bring out the best in the teams and the organizations they lead.

With offices in Raleigh, NC and Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Bristlecone seeks to accelerate sustainable growth for clients worldwide through the development of genuine, enduring leaders of excellence.

Bristlecone also successfully leads companies to craft strong succession plans, helps find and train winning successors, creates effective team leadership strategies and taps and mines the best in individual participants’ emotional intelligence.

Some of Bristlecone’s clients include: Bovis Lend Lease, IDEO, Novozymes, Red Hat, Shaw Industries, Winter Park Construction, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects and the World's Finest Chocolate Company, Inc.

Clients have described their experience with Bristlecone as “nothing short of amazing” and label Morris and Upchurch “more than just consultants and trainers,” calling them “partners for life”.

Bristlecone managing partner Betsey Upchurch has 20+ years experience in organization development and training. A gifted facilitator, she is much in demand for team coaching, facilitation and leadership development. Her approach is direct and honest yet gentle, humorous and compassionate. Upchurch has a knack for reaching the heart of individuals who participate in her programs, freeing them to learn, change and grow.

Senior partner Jim Morris is an inspiring and persuasive leader in his own right. Often described as a “natural, born leader”, Morris has an instinctive and extraordinary ability to teach and to lead others. Equal parts motivational expert, coach, adventurer, educator, learner and leader, his leadership skills are grounded in his experience managing and leading the nation’s two largest experience-based training and development organizations, working with over 70,000 participants annually. A graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Key Executives program, Morris serves as the Chairman for the Experiential Training and Development Alliance, a professional member organization dedicated to furthering best practices in corporate training and development.

Morris has written a new book, The Five Insights of Enduring Leaders which will be published in early 2007.

If you think you’re ready NOW to Add value, Inspire others and Change the World and to actually “be the change you wish to see in the world” as Gandhi advised, call us now for further information.