Hello.

Jim Ball and Jennifer Kuchta (cook-ta) started our company sixteen years ago.

We are in the Goals Business.

Our mission is to help organizations and people appreciate and attain their potential by setting and achieving goals. We help people and organizations understand what they can become and then we show them how to become it— by helping them set and achieve their business and individual goals.

We believe that all behavior is goal directed. We believe that all growth, improvement, performance, profit, and success begins with first having a goal.

History

Jennifer and Jim met when Jennifer came to work for Venture America, the venture capital firm Jim founded. Venture America helped finance and launch over 20 new businesses including The Discovery Channel, Digene Diagnostics, and other successful companies.

After being in the venture capital business for ten years Jim decided to form a business to focus on human potential. Jennifer decided to join him in this endeavor.

Evolution of Our Business

We started The Goals Institute by providing strategic goal-setting services, writing and publishing books, and delivering speeches and seminars.

Next, we began creating simple methodologies, systems, and techniques that we could teach to others for achieving goals and getting things done.

We now are focused on packaging our resources for use by others. Our goal is to provide high quality, easy-to-use tools at affordable prices. We offer books and resource tools for individuals and teams.

Clients and Customers

We have provided our products and services for hundreds of customers. Thousands of individuals have purchased and benefitted from our books and tools.

Our customers are in many industries including:

• Education
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Small Business
• Government
• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing

Products and Services

We categorize our products and services in the four categories below.

1. Goal Achievement includes:

• Books on goal achievement
• Goal setting planners and tools
• Goal achievement aids

2. Teach-It-Yourself includes:

• Facilitator kits for teaching our seminars yourself
• All teaching and presentation aids to teach our programs
• Participant materials and tools

3. Books and Tools for Success

• We created our Keep It Simple for Success® book series to provide high quality content in a short and effective format.
• We produce posters, reminders, and other tools for achieving goals and getting things done.

4. Specialty Services: We provide the services below for a small number of clients interested in a longer-term, mutually beneficial relationship.

• Business planning
• Strategic goal setting
• Business consulting
• Executive coaching
• Idea generation
• Keynote presentations and leadership seminars

If these specialty services are of interest to you, please email us and tell us of your interest.