KEYNOTE TOPICS

High-impact programs designed to drive Accelerated Insights—not just applause.

Pick a topic below. Every session is customized to your audience, industry,
and meeting objectives.

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the best-fit topic and format.

Live or Virtual • Keynote or Workshop • Customized for your audience

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Keynote Topics

As a keynote speaker, James shows audiences how to stop treating AI as a threat or a mystery and start using it as the turbocharger for the pattern recognition, experience, and judgment they’ve already built. James didn’t invent “Think Inside The Box” as a keynote hook. He wrote the book on it.

Because in these keynotes, AI doesn’t stand for Artificial Intelligence. It stands for Accelerated Insights
— the most powerful implementation engine that 3D Thinking has ever had.

Participants leave with a practical AI implementation plan — not a technology lecture — built on the same 3D Thinking methodology that has helped organizations from Apple and Disney to McDonald’s and Hyatt, Marriott, Ritz Carlton achieve breakthrough results. (All presentations can be breakout or workshop sessions. Ask how to bundle them for your event.)

When you contact us to inquire about collaboration we will provide a higher resolution version of
THE JOURNEY TO BRIGHT IDEAS
original artwork.

At our first face-to-face meeting, James will bring a frameable version.

And, of course, some artisan, gourmet, handmade chocolates. Isn’t that sweet?

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James trademarked Shift Happens!

,,James discovered this in the most unlikely classroom imaginable: an elevator. Trapped for 5.5 hours with no phone, no signal, and no escape, he did what his 3D Thinking framework had always taught — he looked inside the box. He mapped his highest-value challenges, identified the friction costing him clients and revenue, and walked out with a business plan built entirely from the insights he already owned.

James trademarked Shift Happens! because he saw the landscape changing and the difficulty of dealing with change. The opportunities are NOW, not later.

Known as the AI Concierge™, James customizes each ‘conversation’ offering

‘Plain talk for Smart people.’

Each topic is part of the ‘foundation’ of building a strong business by leveraging the wisdom of an advisor who has worked in dozens of industries to help his clients discover new opportunities using existing resources by thinking ‘inside the box.’

Did we mention he brings artisan chocolate? All presentations are available as virtual or live events. Keynotes are customized to the specific needs of your audience and include case studies and interactive conversations that help shift how to think, not what to think.

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Jim’s creative, innovative techniques let your organization compete and dominate in radically changing environments using your existing resources.

James delivers insight, wisdom, and big-picture thinking at the intersection of

CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, CHANGE, INNOVATION, needed NOW.