“I DIDN’T EXPECT TO LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THINGS I ASSUMED I ALREADY UNDERSTOOD.”
PARTNER, AMLAW 50 LAW FIRM
“I DIDN’T EXPECT TO LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THINGS I ASSUMED I ALREADY UNDERSTOOD.”
PARTNER, AMLAW 50 LAW FIRM
SPEAKING
THE RESEARCH CAME FIRST.
James didn’t develop ideas to become a speaker. He became a speaker because nearly thirty years of research gave him something worth talking about. His presentations are compelling because the work is compelling, not the other way around.
A highlight reel can show you that James can hold a room. It can’t show you what happens when he has one. His clients, stages, testimonials, and the people he’s shared them with provide a better record of that.
Most organizations try to change results. James studies the five things that produce them: the relationships people keep, the environments that shape them, the constraints that hold them, the possibilities they can’t see, and the games that determine how they act.
Bloomberg New Economy Forum
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SXSW
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Aspen Ideas Conference
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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Chicago Ideas Week
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Bloomberg New Economy Forum ° SXSW ° Aspen Ideas Conference ° Festival of Dangerous Ideas ° Chicago Ideas Week °
WHERE TO BEGIN.
Start with the questions that sounds most like yours.
SAFER. EASIER. BETTER.
How do we build relationships that last?
Discover why the science of connection challenges almost everything we’ve been taught about building relationships.
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THE BLUE FROG PROBLEM
How do we create an organization where people thrive?
Discover why changing people may be the least effective way to change their behavior.
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UNSTUCK
How do we become better at change?
Discover why the very things that make us successful can prevent us from moving forward.
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AGE OF IGNORANCE
How do we discover what’s possible next?
Discover why the greatest opportunities belong to those who recognize what they don’t know.
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GAMEMAKERS
How do we bring out the best in our people?
Discover why better performance begins with changing the game, not the players.
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One hour. One idea that will change how you see things.
KEYNOTES
60 MIN · STICKY KEYNOTE
Safer. Easier. Better
For billions of years, nature has relied on one strategy to build lasting relationships. It’s time you learned it.
60 MIN · STICKY KEYNOTE
The Blue Frog Problem
The problem may not be your people. It may be the environment you’ve created for them. Discover why changing one can transform the other.
60 MIN · STUCK KEYNOTE
Unstuck
The very things that made you successful may be keeping you stuck. Discover why your brain resists change and what it takes to move forward.
60 MIN · STUCK KEYNOTE
Age of Ignorance: The Other AI
For centuries, knowing more gave us an advantage. But what happens when everyone has access to the same answers? Discover why the future belongs to those who ask better questions.
60 MIN · STUCK KEYNOTE
(For leaders and managers)
Gamemakers
People willingly spend hours overcoming obstacles in games, then spend their workdays trying to avoid them. Discover what game designers understand about motivation that organizations don’t.
Take the idea out of the presentation and into the room.
WORKSHOPS
60 MIN · KEYNOTE + 90 MINUTE BREAKOUT
Sticky by Design
(with Safer. Easier. Better.)
Relationships aren’t built on shared experiences. They’re built on mutual value. Discover how to use nature’s oldest strategy to make your organization difficult to replace.
60 MIN · KEYNOTE + 60 MINUTE BREAKOUT
The Belayer
(with Unstuck)
For decades, everyone has wanted to be a Trusted Advisor. It’s time to aim for something better. Discover why your clients and colleagues need a Belayer instead…and how to become one.
60 MIN · KEYNOTE + 90 MINUTE BREAKOUT
The Black Cat Challenge
(with Age of Ignorance)
The answers you need may be hiding in questions you’ve never thought to ask. Discover how curiosity can reveal what experience, expertise, and conventional thinking overlook.
60 MIN · KEYNOTE + 60 MINUTE BREAKOUT
The Retirement Party
(with Unstuck or Age of Ignorance)
Some of your organization’s most successful ideas have stayed long past their usefulness. Give them the retirement party they deserve and discover how a little humor can make letting go a lot easier.
MULTI-DAY
For leadership teams who want to build something, not just hear something.
STICKY & UNSTUCK
(All of the above)
Two essential challenges. Building what makes you sticky. Removing what keeps you stuck. Both deserve more than a day.
PROOF
What rooms actually say afterward.
“From the content to the structure to the design and the delivery, this was, by far, the best presentation I've ever seen.”
— Public Relations Society of America
"Prepare for a TedTalk on Steroids"
— Aspen Ideas Conference
“When a speaker is so good you are transfixed and unable to look away.”
— Silicon Valley Community Foundation
"I've never seen a speaker make complex ideas feel this simple and actionable."
— SR. Event Planner, L'ORÃEAL
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A short conversation is faster than guessing from a page.