Meet Your Coach...Jim Castiglia

Business today is a street fight you can’t afford to lose!!!

Your competitors aren’t pulling any punches in their efforts to take away your customers, sales, and profits; and knock you out of the market.

Karate-do black belt JIM CASTIGLIA, founder of Business Street Fighter Consulting, LLC, can expand your confidence to lead your company to the next level of growth and success. You’ll move from frustration to focus and get the edge to solve your toughest problems, find your best opportunities, stop buying excuses, and make better decisions… in other words, maximize the value of your business and win the fight. Jim has spent his four-decade professional career helping people overcome their biggest challenges, solve underlying contradictions, and accelerate growth.

Business Background:

• Senior Trainer—The Summit Organization, Inc., a statewide $28M California personal and professional development organization
• Led over 3,000 workshops attended by 150,000 people
• Conducted more than 27,000 one-to-one problem-solving consultations 
• Started a business leader coaching practice in 1994
• Top coach and coach mentor—Business Breakthroughs International, Inc., a Tony Robbins/Chet Holmes company; assigned over 200 clients
• Faculty member—Communispond, Inc., management consultants to the Fortune 500; led over 45 trainings 
• Executive Analyst—George S. May International, Inc., an 87-year old management consulting firm
• Consultant—Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
• Invited lecturer:
  • University of Southern California (USC), Graduate School of Engineering
  • University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  • California State University, San Diego

Personal Background:

Jim earned a black belt in Okinawan Shobayashi Shorin Ryu karate-do, a purple belt in Ying Jow Pai (Eagle Claw) Gung Fu, studied the Japanese art of Aikido for 2.5 years, as well as Jerry Peterson's SCARS close-quarters combat and Tim Larkin's Target Focus Training. He designed and taught a self-defense training that graduated over 400 students.

A native of Washington, D.C. and the only son of a former NFL fullback and MLB catcher, he grew up in a house full of females… eight sisters, and survived — just barely! He moved to California at 21 years old to follow a dream and after 41 years returned to the east coast in 2015, currently residing in Raleigh, NC.

Jim was married in Venice, Italy, and has three children. He has studied several languages, achieving the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Intermediate High Level in French and Italian. He is an International Open Water certified SCUBA diver. As a teenager, he served three summers on Capitol Hill in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Congressional Page.

One of his most profound experiences has been a Jesuit education during six formative years. Their philosophy of service—being a “man for others” was ingrained in Jim and includes a year on the San Francisco Child Abuse Council and two years on the board of directors for the San Diego Community Congress, a certified United Way Agency.