About James S. Emrich

Jim Emrich has thirty years of experience in the fields of leadership development, general management, corporate finance, organizational behavior. His professional responsibilities have included CFO of a multi entity not-for-profit health care chain; Presidential Exchange Executive serving in the Department of Health and Human Services; Senior management at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and; Executive Vice Present and Chief Operating Officer of a privately held enterprise which provided organizational consulting services and marketed employee assistance programs. His undergraduate degree is from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce and his graduate degree is from the University of California, Berkeley. He has held adjunct faculty appointments at both the Universities of Pennsylvania and California. During his career, Jim has served on more than 15 boards, both for-profit and not-for-profit and has a particular interest in trustee governance. He is a Lilly Endowment Trustee Educator.

Vision and Mission

Animating Spirit

I seek to truly integrate my vocation with who I am as a person and my spiritual grounding as a Christian. 

Vision

Acting as a servant-leader in the context of helping to reform societal institutions is the focus around which my activities as a civic entrepreneur and shepherd are centered.

Mission

I embody this in two ways. At the societal level, I endeavor to work on issues of equity, justice, reconciliation and opportunity addressing sociopolitical structures. At the individual level I function as a shepherd, seeking to encourage others in their own process of personal renewal and where appropriate bring my own Christian faith and witness to bear on this process.

Personal Mission Statement

Grounding in Scripture

I am committed to living in a way that is sustained by the Christian revelation. I am prepared to give my heart to (Philippians 2):

Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited. He emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness.  Being found in human form, He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death - even death on a cross. God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name.  At the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.  Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Therefore, I am called to
Work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. 
As
God is at work in me, enabling me both to will and to work for his/her good pleasure. 

I am prepared to work in such a way as to affirm the gifts of all as Paul wrote in Romans:
To Be with You

For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you - or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.  (Rom 1: 11-12)