Team - Distinction Communication

Passionate. Seasoned. Partners in your success.

The Distinction team brings a unique mix of experiences and skill sets to help meet your organization’s needs in a broad range of presentation settings.

Jim Endicott

President, Executive Coach, Conference Speaker

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.

"I’m not a natural but the training Jim gave me for my keynote really put me on the map. By the way, my presentation was voted best presentation and presenter. Very appreciative of the timely coaching!"

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Amy Wolff

TEDx Speaker Coach, Senior Trainer, Executive Coach

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.

"Amy is an excellent teacher. She constantly modeled the skills she taught in class but did so in an authentic, personable and professional way!"

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Dr. Scott Lee

PhD, Distinction Advisory Board

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 Walker

Distinction Advisory Board

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.

Note: You won’t find us adding a dozen faces here (of every coach we’ve had coffee with the last 10 years) to try to fill up our company page and impress you. We simply don’t need to. We’re small, adaptive and everyone you see are seasoned and full time Distinction coaches – never sub-contractors or distant cousins!

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