Author, Speaker, Nationally Syndicated Columnist & Radio Commentator,
Founder – Bookcase for Every Child

Jim Has spent the past 50 years sharing ideas that help others to improve their lives.

1970 – 2020

“The quality of our lives, our success and happiness, will be determined by the quality of our ideas.” — Jim Davidson​​

A Life of Community Service

     Jim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author, and motivational consultant has spanned more than fifty years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Diamond Club, sales organization of the Little Rock Chamber Of Commerce, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas.

     He has also been presented with the “Good Neighbor Award” by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 “Distinguished Service Award” winner for the Conway Public Schools. In November 2013, Jim was given a Senate Citation and the Conway Community Service Award by Senator Jason Rapert, during a ceremony at the Faulkner County Library.

     Jim was also an active member of the Conway Noon Lions Club for over 20 years, a past president, membership chairman, golf tournament chairman, and was named Lion of the Year.  He has also been chosen to receive the Dalstrom Award and was twice named a Progressive Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award in Lionism. However, he believes that literacy — teaching people to read and write for success in life — is one of the greatest needs we have in our nation today.

     For this reason, in 2005, he founded a nationwide literacy project titled “A Bookcase for Every Child” and this all-volunteer project provides a quality personalized bookcase, along with some quality books, to deserving children in low-income families. His last work may be the most important. Jim has made a commitment to partner with Arkansas PBS to develop a curriculum to teach pre-school children the success habits of Character, Integrity, Respect and Manners.  He believes that, over time, this will change the culture of violence in America.