Jim Camp, author of negotiation books Start with No and No: The Only System Of Negotiation You Need For Work and Home, is chairman of The Jim Camp Group, founder, CEO, and president of Coach2100, Inc. negotiation training system, and inventor of Systematic Decision-Based Negotiation™. Since 1987, over 100,000 people have used his negotiation training and management system in more than 500 multinational organizations in a diverse array of industries to complete thousands of negotiated business transactions totaling over $100 billion.

Camp and his negotiation training have been featured on CNN, CNBC, numerous radio shows, and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Cosmopolitan, San Francisco Chronicle, The Columbus Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor, and San Jose Mercury News. Knight-Ridder Publications declared his negotiation book "must reading." Camp has lectured on negotiation at many prestigious graduate schools, is a frequent conference keynoter on negotiation, and has taught his negotiation training methods in nine countries on three continents.

For 20 years, Camp has been one of the best-kept secrets in the corporate negotiations world. He works with very strict confidentiality agreements. If you could talk to one of his negotiation training clients they would tell you he loves to hide in the weeds advising his negotiation clients on what to do next in their negotiations. His contrarian negotiation training system is the first that is not compromise-based or assumption-based. Hundreds of organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, use his one-of-a-kind proprietary Internet-based negotiation training and project management system, Coach2100.com. Camp's negotiation technology provides a complete system of negotiation training, negotiation support coaches, interactive negotiation simulation practice, and reference library support. With the negotiation training system, negotiation training clients are empowered to conduct and manage negotiations anywhere in the world in real time, in a secure environment with multiple negotitation team members. Coach2100 is the only technology of its kind in the world. No other organization has such capabilities.

Camp served his country for seven years. He is a Vietnam Veteran and Air Force pilot. He holds a degree from Ohio State University in Education, Biological Sciences, and Health and Physical Education.

Camp lives in Austin, Texas, Vero Beach, Florida and Dublin, Ohio with his wife Patty. They have five children and six grandchildren.