AI CONCIERGE™ -TRANSFORMATION GROWTH ADVISOR

the future is now!

Do you need more customers – NOW?

…want to retain current clients – NOW?

…desire to hold on to key talent – NOW?

…require competitive reconnaissance – NOW?

…struggle to monetize your ROI [Return on Ideas] – NOW?

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We live in a time where the term SHIFT HAPPENS is an understatement.

It’s time for INNOVATION at the speed of OPPORTUNITY.

James’s approach is UNCOMMON common sense.

WE ARE A SINGLE-SOURCE SOLUTION

My mother once told me. “It’s a poor dog that won’t wag its own tail”
What follows is a lot of tail wagging…blame my mother, not AI.

We don’t just talk about AI. We put it to work.

James Feldman, CSP is the AI Concierge™ for organizations, association leaders, hospitality professionals, and meeting planners who are done being confused and ready to start winning. As founder of SOAR Academy and publisher of the AI Sauce Newsletter, James doesn’t lecture about technology — he shows you exactly how to use the AI you may already own to hit the business goals that actually matter.

His approach is still uncommon common sense. The difference? Now it comes with a prompt.

“I’m not here to explain AI. I’m here to help you win with Accelerated Insights”

AI Implementation Strategy

Stop collecting AI tools and start deploying them. James works with organizations to map AI to specific workflows, revenue goals, and audience outcomes — no coding, no overwhelm, no wasted budget.

Keynote & General Session

From intimate board retreats to main stage conference moments, James delivers customized presentations that entertain, educate, and send attendees home with tools they can use before their next meeting. His current signature program: “Stuck Between Floors: Think Inside The Box Using The AI You Already Own.”

Executive & Team Advisory

Whether you’re leading an association, running a hotel group, or managing a MICE portfolio, James serves as your on-call AI Concierge — helping you identify where AI creates the biggest lift with the least friction.

SOAR Academy

An ongoing learning community built for professionals who want practical AI skills, not theoretical frameworks. Because one conversation isn’t enough.

Ready to stop watching and start winning? Schedule a Strategy Call: https://jfa.tips/BookACall

He provides plain talk to smart people. James focuses on the results and challenges your audiences…“don’t let what you think you know prevent you from learning what you need to know.”

Here’s some relevant information you might want to know about James:

James offers your organization an infusion of ideas that deliver new ways of looking at opportunities using your existing resources and combining with others to create or increase revenue streams.
He teaches transformational techniques and skills that anyone can learn.
The presentations are customized to your audience.
The content is targeted to your industry.
James learns your language and asks ‘what’s working?’ ‘What’s not working?’ ‘what’s missing?’ and ‘what’s next? ‘what’s possible?’, and ‘why not?’
He helps organizations learn what they don’t know so they can create their own ‘shifts.’
It’s a demonstration with audience interaction and participation that helps them become aware of what they hadn’t realized.
He has discussions with your audience, not lectures.
100% of his clients have offered to be referrals.
James’ deliverable is to encourage thinking ‘inside the box’ to ensure Shift Happens.

If you want to make Shift Happen consider a no-obligation discussion of what James can provide to your next meeting, event, conference, or retreat. Jim offers transformational insights into business challenges that can shift a business’s trajectory. https://jfa.tips/BookACall

If you seek a presenter that is enlightening, relevant, controversial, entertaining, and applicable to your industry, consider James as your next keynote or workshop speaker.

Clients Jim has been keynote or breakout speaker

James has worked with Fortune 500 companies, including McDonald’s, Toyota, Marriott, Apple, Microsoft, Xerox, Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Hyatt, The Ritz-Carlton, American Airlines, Carnival, and Helene Curtis as a change facilitator. Jim helped introduce new products, refine target audiences, and deliver measurable results.

Toyota engaged Jim for over 150 projects, ranging from new-car promotions to parts and service performance improvements, introducing tangible techniques that made everyone part of the solution and enabled them to capitalize on change.

Working with Hewlett Packard he motivated channel partners to increase their support of HP products in the marketplace while displacing many of HP competitors.

Aria Resort and Casino engaged Jim to work with their sales, marketing, and operations departments to create an Idea Exchange, which produced over 700 new ideas in less than 45 minutes. Imagine what Jim can do for your organization?

He concentrates on overcoming entrenched cultures and habits, introducing innovative thinking and risk-taking to develop solutions that help his clients springboard to success. Are you ready to make Shift Happen?

Through his career, James has honed techniques to embrace change, foster a culture of innovation and great customer service, and creatively solve business problems. He shares this knowledge with your audience to create an entertaining, informative presentation that your attendees will be talking about for weeks and months afterward.

Special Designations:

1 of only 6 individuals in the world to earn the Master Incentive Professional (MIP) certification
1 of only 50 to earn Certified Incentive Travel Executive (CITE) certification
1 of only 40 to earn Certified Professional of Incentive Marketing (CPIM) certification
1 of just a few hundred worldwide to earn Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) certification
1 of less than 12% of all speakers, worldwide to earn Certified Speaker Professional (CSP) certification
1 of less than 500 to earn Certified Photographic Counselor (CPC)
1 of less than 250 Certified Facilitators
1 of less than 150 Certified Innovation Trainers
1 of less than 150 Certified Dream Managers®
Only person in the world to have earned all of his industries’ certifications

Certifications:

Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) National Speakers Association
Certified Virtual Presenter– espeakers
Master Incentive Professional (MIP) – Association of Incentive Marketers
Certified Innovation Trainer-SolutionPeople
Certified Dream Manager-Matthew Kelly
Certified Facilitator-Destiny Seminars
Certified Incentive Travel Executive (CITE) – Society of Incentive & Travel Executives
Certified Professional of Incentive Marketing (CPIM) – Incentive Marketing Association
Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) – International Society for Performance Improvement in affiliation with the American Society for Training and Development
Certified Photographic Counselor (CPC) – Photographic Marketing Association
Managing Real Estate Broker, State of Illinois
Realtor®
Expert Witness: U.S. Federal Courts
Expert Witness: IRS Hearings
Expert Witness: Colorado Federal Courts
Underwater Photography Instructor-PADI
Underwater Wreck Diver-NAUI
Underwater Rescue Diver-PADI
Certified Food Service Handling Manager, State of Illinois

Associations

Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) – Trustee 2007-2014
Incentive Marketing Association (IMA) – Member – Since 2001
Incentive Travel Council SIG – Former President – 2008 – 2012
Institute of Marketing Consultants, USA-2014 http://www.imcusa.org/
International Platform Association – Board Member-2013
PAWS Development Board – Advisory Board
National Speakers Association (NSA) – Active Member – Since 1996
MEXICO Tourism Advisory Board – Active Member- Since 2000
Association of Incentive Marketing (AIM) – Now merged into IMA – Member and Education Conference Chairman – 1982 – 2001, Board of Directors
Society of Incentive Travel Executives (SITE) – Member – 1986 – 2007 – Previous Co-President and Vice President of SITE Chicago, Board of Directors
Meeting Planners International (MPI) – Member – 1990 – 2001
Direct Selling Association (DSA) – Member – 1990- 2001 – Past Board Member – Committee Positions
University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation – Board of Directors – 1993 – 1996
Promotional Marketing Association of North America (PMAA) – Member – 1990 – 1997 -Committee Positions
Y-ME Breast Cancer Organization – Board Member – 1992 – 1997
Professional Speakers of Illinois (PSI) – Member – 1997 – 2002
Lake Point Tower Condominium Association– Board Member-2013-14
Lake Point Tower Garage Association-President-2013

Awards

In June 2005, Incentive Magazine named the top motivators in the last 100 years. In the Innovators category, James Feldman was one of just six people honored.
The International Platform Association awarded the 1997 IPA Engraved Silver Bowl to James Feldman. The award is presented by the IPA Board of Governors to a speaker who represents the “Magic of Communication.” Previous recipients include Art Linkletter, Bill Cosby, David Frost, Harry Blackstone, and Henry Kissinger.
1992 Y-ME Member of the Year (Helped raised $45O,OOO,OOO for breast cancer research)
AIM Presidents Award-2001- for outstanding accomplishments and education
SITE Crystal Award-2002- for Individual Incentive Travel program for Compaq-now Hewlett Packard
SITE Crystal Award-2003- for Hewlett Packard

Education

BA, English & Economics, Kansas State University
MBA, Marketing, University of Illinois
Washburn Univ. Law School
IIT Kent Law School
University of Notre Dame, Executive Development Seminars
Adjunct Professor, Roosevelt University, Innovation and Hospitality
Visiting Professor, Northern Illinois University, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Visiting Professor, University of IL Hospitality
Visiting Lecturer: Purdue University