A principal and co-founder of Peregrine Partners, Jim Waldroop is Associate Director of MBA Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School, where he has worked since 1981. Together with Dr. Timothy Butler (also of the Harvard Business School) he developed the Business Career Interest Inventory, the Management and Professional Reward Profile, the Management and Professional Abilities Profile and the Internet-based interactive career assessment program CareerLeader.

Dr. Waldroop's work focuses on two areas of interface between psychology and the world of business: individual management development (executive coaching) and career development assessment and counselling.

He has worked with a wide range of organisations in both the manufacturing and service sectors, from Fortune 50 corporations to smaller high-growth firms. Among his clients are McKinsey & Company, GTE, General Electric, Citibank, Sony Music Entertainment, KPMG Peat Marwick, BankBoston, Gillette, Boise-Cascade, Hewlett-Packard, AMS, Spaulding & Slye, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Boston Edison, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mercer Management Consulting, Maximus, Philip Morris, and Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath.

Peregrine Partners is active in research into the psychological underpinnings of career satisfaction and success, making use of assessment materials from a data base of over 4000 business professionals. Jim and Tim Butler are the authors of Discovering Your Career in Business (Addison-Wesley, 1997). They are also authors of "The Executive as Coach" (the Harvard Business Review , November-December, 1996), "Finding the Job You Should Want (Fortune, March 2, 1998) and "Eight Failings That Bedevil the Best" (Fortune, November 23, 1998), and were recently profiled in Fast Company magazine. They have a new Harvard Business Review article in press and are completing a new book for Currency Doubleday books.

Jim has published several articles in professional journals and has been interviewed extensively in various popular media on topics related to business psychology and career management. He is a Diplomat in Counselling Psychology and is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Psychological Association.