Jim Smucker

Jim Smucker is President of Keim, a 580-employee home center and building supply company in Charm, Ohio.  He holds both Masters’ and Ph.D. degrees in Management.  Prior to his work at Keim, Jim served for twenty-seven years as a partner and President of the Bird-in-Hand Corporation, a hospitality management company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in business and organizational management at several universities.  His research interests include empowerment in the workplace and developing authentic leaders. He has embraced Anabaptism as a foundation on which to build a model of serving leadership throughout his adult life.  He lives near Sugarcreek, Ohio, with his wife Anna and has three adult children and two grandchildren.