About
James Buhlman, ChPC
James has spent the last 25 years building a career in the sporting industry. During that time he has coached both Athletics and Basketball at the College level, become a Chartered Professional Coach (ChPC), coached at numerous Canadian Championships while still finding the time to complete his Masters in Coaching from the Johan Cruyff Institute in the Netherlands.
Outside of the coaching realm, James has been an active speaker at sport conferences around the world, including the 2023 International Sport for Life Conference in New York City and the 2023 International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) Global Coaching Conference in Singapore.
In 2016-17, James worked as a sports consultant for a private Beijing sports company designing basketball curriculum, leading elite coaching clinics, teacher training, and conference speaking engagements.
He has organized sporting tournaments and championships at the local, provincial and national level, been a high school basketball convenor, a Physical Education Instructor, Athletic Director, and Technical Manager at the National Sport Organization (NSO) and Provincial / Territorial Sport Organization (PTSO) levels. His extensive professional experience in many varied areas of sport have helped inform him as a coach, coach mentor, learning facilitator, coach evaluator, conference speaker, and sport management consultant.