Soaring Heights Consulting is a full-service firm with over 30 years of experience working in private, public and nonprofit settings. Our approach is one that focuses on the client at the center of every job. In other words, every job is a custom job we’ll never force you into an out of the box solution. Instead, we design the right approach for the unique situations and needs of our clients every single time. Think of us as a concierge for all of your small business, nonprofit or government unit needs and if we don’t have it we will tap into our broad network of experts to find the right service for you.
Soaring Heights Consulting is located in Olympia, WA and is Owned and Operated by Jim Cooper.
Our services include:
• Facilitation for any conversation, there is no group too small or too large.
• Strategic & operational planning for companies, governments, nonprofits and campaigns.
• Policy and systems development.
• Resource analysis and planning for successfully financing of any project.
• Website/ CRM Services for small organizations and campaigns.
Operational support and administrative management. We specialize in projects such as facilitation, strategic planning retreats, local government revenue, nonprofit mergers, program design, organizational shut down, and interim executive work.
Jim Cooper is the principal and owner of Soaring Heights Consulting, a veteran owned Washington State based small business that focuses on success for small organizations, nonprofits and governments, since 2021.
Jim is also the President and Chief Executive Officer for United Ways of the Pacific Northwest, the regional association for 32 local United Way organizations in Idaho, Oregon & Washington, since 2013. In this work he has also served as the interim CEO for three different local United Ways. He is a founding member of the United Way Worldwide Disaster Resilience Committee and a leadership member of Idaho, Oregon and Washington VOAD’s (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters)
Jim served as an elected member of the Olympia City Council from 2011 through 2025 where he served on various committees including chairing the City Finance Committee, chairing the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency Board of Directors, chairing the Thurston County Solid Waste Advisory Committee, the founding chair of the Thurston County Regional Housing Council and the founding president of the Olympia Metropolitan Parks District.
Jim has 33 years of nonprofit, corporate and government leadership experience working with community organizations, governments and businesses to achieve positive outcomes for people and the environment. Jim has a unique ability to facilitate difficult group conversations in a way that brings people together towards common outcomes. His experience includes strategic planning, finance, non-profit leadership, communications and outreach, construction management, program development and evaluation, training, and public policy.
As an Army veteran, Eagle Scout and poverty abolitionist, Jim works to stand up for issues that financial mobility while aiming at his personal goal of the Pacific Northwest being the best place in America to grow up and live. He is a 2007 graduate of leadership Thurston County and made the Business Examiner’s 40 under 40 list in 2013.
Jim loves the outdoors and lives in Olympia, WA with his wife Thomasina, daughter Maggie, and their rescue dogs Rusty & Meli.
