Meet the Team

Jim launched McCarron & Company after serving in leadership roles in two of the largest companies in the residential construction industry and as the Founder/CEO of his own successful company for ten years.

With over 20 years of competitive corporate experience, he is able to offer his clients a unique blend of hands-on operational experience with a strong leadership and coaching style.

Highly recognized for his work building High Performing Teams across industries, with experience in Turn-around Management, Organizational Development, and Change Management, Jim helps organizations create a corporate culture of performance and accountability.

Jim combines years of sales and operational excellence with a passion for Leadership Development, making him the perfect ally to drive change, coach business leaders, or be a strategic mentor & trainer for any team within your organization.

Kelly holds a master’s in Counseling & Organizational Behavior from University of Pennsylvania and joined McCarron & Co as a turnaround and coaching specialist. With over ten years of experience bringing order to chaos and coaching leaders through crises, including as the Founder/Director of her own event agency, she offers a distinct ability to draw out answers that would otherwise be lost.

Recognized at the state and national level for creating loyal client and staff engagement, Kelly’s passion is strengths-based capacity-building for companies. She has driven change as a leader and organizational development consultant in the technology, entertainment, non-profit, retail, and education sectors.

Kelly blends her experience spanning Operations and HR with coaching and mediation to create a track record of curating positive culture and surpassing business goals, making her an ideal support to help you identify the road map to the next level and coach your teams to their highest performance abilities.

Dean Hara came to McCarron & Company with more than 25 years of proven experience in the field of sales, marketing, and business development and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Over the years Dean has perfected the art of Sales Performance and has been recognized by several national companies for his excellence in developing topline accounts.

Dean has served in senior sales and leadership roles in the IT, healthcare, energy, non-profit, and manufacturing industries, and has a long track record of creating exponential revenue growth for the organizations that he works with. He worked with some of the biggest names in their industries, including Quest Diagnostics, Mondavi, and PG&E.

His exceptional cross-industry experience, coupled with his expertise of drawing out the optimal solutions from the teams and clients around him make him a perfect coach of your staff and their leaders.

William Berger (The BergerMan) brings to McCarron and Company more than 22 years’ success delivering world-class training to some of the county’s largest and most demanding organizations.

Awarded one of the first degrees in Management Information Systems from California State University Fullerton, The BergerMan has had first-hand experience with the development and evolution of management practices for Information Technology professionals. Arguably one of the newest, most expensive, and reputedly “difficult to manage” divisions in many organizations.

With experience as both an IT Director and the founder of his own IT consultancy, The BergerMan has advised management professionals across a spectrum of business sectors including: Banking; State, Federal and Local Governments; Education; Manufacturing; Medicine; and the US Military.