Team Bios

Jim Endicott, Distinction’s founder in 1998, is a nationally-recognized executive coach and management consultant with a passion for driving impact, results and deeper influence through personal communication excellence.

Jim was a Jesse H. Neal award-winning columnist for PRESENTATIONS magazine and has also contributed presentations-related content in magazines like Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power.

There’s not too much Jim hasn’t seen or experienced. For the last 20 years, he’s had the opportunity to coach clients ranging from senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies to small business entrepreneurs and just about everything in between.

When Jim’s not with clients, he’s sailing in the San Juan Islands, making furniture in his workshop or wrestling with his two adorable granddaughters. Life is about balance.

Amy Wolff is a highly-rated senior trainer, executive coach, and event speaker. In addition to coaching corporate lawyers to non-profit advocates, corporate managers to sales teams, shoes designers to engineers, Amy is also a TEDx speaker coach for TEDxPortland, one of the top ten TEDx organizations in the world. Her greatest thrill is mixing business and personal passions by facilitating trainings for community leaders in Kigali, Rwanda (one of her favorite places on earth!).

When Amy’s not with clients, she’s meeting friends in small coffee shops, scheming to travel the globe, and constantly picking up toys… lots and lots of toys.

Dr. Scott Lee is a clinical psychologist who has worked with Distinction since 2000. He co-authored the Presentation Survival Skills Guide with Jim and has contributed greatly to Distinction’s training curriculum approaches over the years. Scott’s insight into the social/psychological issues facing presenters never fails to provide practical perspective for Distinction and our coaching methodologies.

Jim brings several decades of entrepreneurial experience in the Portland area to his board role at Distinction Communication. He currently is the VP of Operations at Orenco Healthcare Partners and is on the Engineering Advisory Board for George Fox University. His perspective and experience has been instrumental in guiding Distinction into the future.

Jake brings a ton of sales and marketing insight to the Distinction advisory board. His 10-year background in these areas (and understanding our business so well) gives him some very needed insight into how to drive growth and pushing through the challenges of a growing business. When he's not working his day job, you can find Jake playing with his 2 daughters and trying to figure out how to sneak in a hunting or fishing trip.  Glad to have you on our team, Jake!