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JAMES BRINK, Ph.D.
SENIOR PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

James T. Brink is an expert in human dynamics and non-Western communications. He combines a background in human resources, executive recruitment and corporate cultures with specializations in teaching, training, facilitation and creative problem solving in educational, corporate and intercultural contexts. He joined Results Group in 1998 to launch and lead a recruitment division serving the for-profit sector.

He comes to Results Group after a career as a cultural anthropologist and educator, where his research centered on the artistic expressions and material cultures of African and Native American societies. He is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on the arts of the Bamana peoples of Mali in West Africa. His original field work is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and his work has been featured in permanent and temporary exhibitions at that museum as well as at New York’s Museum of African Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

As an anthropologist, he published award-wining papers and research summaries, served as a professor at Indiana University and Brooklyn College, and consulted on field methodology, grant writing and ethnographic films. His field research was conducted in Mali, West Africa and with the Arapahoe and Shoshone peoples at the Wind River Native American Reservation in Wyoming. His competitive research fellowships include four National Defense Foreign Language grants and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. James Brink holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, a Ph. D. in social and cultural anthropology from Indiana University and a Business Certificate from the Graduate School of Business Administration at NYU. He also served as a classroom teacher at the elite public New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, creating a unique secondary school history curriculum in World Cultures and African Studies.

Prior to joining Results Group, Mr. Brink served as an independent executive recruiter and as a human resources executive at Grey Advertising in New York City. Working as a generalist, he rose through the ranks at Grey to become Director of Recruiting and Vice President, Associate Director of Human Resources at this global advertising agency. His responsibilities included policy development and implementation, employee relations, benefits administration, compensation, department reorganization, personnel administration, succession planning, recruitment, employee retention and employment law. He served on the company's Personnel Planning Council for 3 years.

Mr. Brink was raised in Nebraska, where his family lived for several generations on the Omaha Indian reservation. Today, he divides his time between New York City and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he restores vintage farm structures and pursues organic vegetable gardening.

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