Trapped Between The Floors: 5.5 Hours That Elevated My Business No phone. No escape. Zero control
The Elevator Talk That Will Have Others Talking About Their "elevator pitch."
The elevator talk will include others sharing their 'elevator pitch.'
James D. Feldman CSP, CITE, CPIM, CPT, PCS
I engineer wins using AI to increase Revenue,Engagement,ROI
Shift Happens!®
Keynote Programs
Travels from Chicago, IL, US
Fee Range: Over $10,000
Flexible pricing for local and virtual delivery
Fee Range: Over $10,000
Flexible pricing for local and virtual delivery
The Right Stuff: Turn Your Expertise Into Revenue Streams Beyond Your Time
Walk in with untapped expertise. Walk out with a product roadmap and the tools to build it.
You've built the knowledge. You've created the content. But you're still trading hours for dollars—and there aren't enough hours.Join James Feldman, CSP, AI strategist and product developer, for a keynote or breakout session that shows you how to repurpose your intellectual property into merchandise, tangible...
introducing AI Sauce™:
The Only Condiment That Pairs Well with Spontaneous Usage & Misplaced Confidence
Suppose your business strategy has been feeling a bit bland lately. In that case, it might be time to reach for something bold, spicy, and slightly confusing: AI Sauce™ — 100% Pure Insights and infinite unintended consequences.Inspired by the flavor-packed bottle mockup and the now-viral...
Customer Experience is the New Currency When You Provide Innovative Solutions
Customers Are The King Of The Marketplace=Hear Them Roar
There are a plethora of “best practices” to accomplish becoming the King Of The Jungle on the journey to bright ideas, however, leaders are often puzzled as to how to tackle this work and where to begin. Experiential learning moves participants from conversations about the...
Confused To Confident
5 Tips To Demystify AI
AI isn’t just coming—it’s already here. However, for most leaders, it feels overwhelming, overhyped, and out of reach. This confusion is costing organizations opportunities, efficiency, and a competitive edge. In *Confused to Confident: 5 Tips to Demystify AI*, I cut through the jargon, fear, and...
Forget the AI Hype. Learn What AI Moves the Needle. Harness What Scales. Leverage What Wins.
Scalable, actionable, and hands-on AI strategy
A Customized, High-Impact Learning Experience Objective: Build foundational AI understanding across the C-Suite and equip each leader with actionable ideas to eliminate inefficiencies, scale operations, and modernize decision-making. 🔹 What This Includes: 🌟 AI Foundations (without the fluff): 🌟 A clea...
Strategic AI Integration:
How to Operationalize Generative and Agentic AI for Real Business Outcomes
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future consideration—it’s a present-day imperative. But most organizations remain stuck in "pilot purgatory" or paralyzed by complexity, compliance concerns, or lack of internal AI literacy. This powerful session bridges the gap between possibility and performance. It delivers...
FROM CONFUSED TO CONFIDENT
Learn how AI can work for you—without the tech overwhelm!
🚀 Unlock the Power of AI in Your Daily Life! 🤖✨AI isn’t just for tech experts—it’s already a part of your everyday world! Want to understand how it works and how you can use it to make life easier? Join us for an engaging, hands-o...
Business Differentiation: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT
Harnessing the power of ChatGPT for your business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from an obscure concept to a universally acknowledged opportunity. With its potential for innovation in both business and society now being realized rather than forecasted, business leaders must acquire a practical understanding of AI and its applications to effectively...
AI Integration Workshop: Empowering Leaders to Think, Act, and Scale with AI
From Confused To Confident
AI isn’t optional. Understanding how to lead with it is. This is the session your executive team didn’t know they needed—until now.This high-impact session is designed for today’s decision-makers who require more than just AI awareness—they need real-world applications. Tailored exclusively for managers and executives...
Checkmate Your Competition: How to Leverage the Power of the CHATGPT Queen in Chess and Your Business
Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Business Challenges
To ensure that Shift Happens, our program empowers executives to reach new heights in their productivity capabilities using ChatGPT. Focusing on specific goals, fostering self-awareness, and driving intentional behavior changes enable leaders to make a lasting positive impact on their organizations, teams, and...
Soaring Like Eagles: Dominate Your Marketplace With Exceptional Focus
If you are seeking a speaker on increasing visibility in the marketplace, I believe I am the ideal candidate for the job.In today's competitive market, it is crucial to establish a robust brand presence and implement effective marketing strategies to capture the attention of potential...
Shift Happens!® Think Inside The Box Using 3D Thinking™
Latest Best Selling Book
When Shift Happens, you can manage it, or it can control you. The pandemic shifted the entire world. In this process, it leveled the playing field and marketplace. It's now what you think but how you think when you focus on identifying market opportunities, mitigating...
Get To Yes. It's not about price. It's about delivering a solution.
Creating a competitive differentiation to maintain price integrity and 'win' new business
Getting To Yes does not mean reducing your price. If you are being asked to lower your price ask yourself, Are you under-servicing? If the marketplace perceived you as the one who offered the most value for the price, who do you think would ge...
Shift Happens!® When You Start D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer®
A Relationship Manual-Published 7/1/17
Clearly, we are in a time of deep depression and deterioration when it comes to the way we treat our customers. We buy from vendors where there is the least hassle, the least ignorance, the least apathy.If you believe, as Jim does, that most of...
Shift Happens!® When The Customer Experience Is About WIIFM
It's about bringing the Customer back by creating transformational experiences not transactions.
Success is not about incremental improvements. Success is about bold, fundamental changes that create customer insistence. It is about repeat business, referrals, and retention. Bottom line: What's In It For Me (WIIFM) and me is the Customer.Oracle recently conducted a survey that revealed that only...
Certified Virtual Presenter
Over a decade of Virtual Presentations
Every topic offered by Jim is available as a virtual or in person presentation. Using high resolution images, licenced movie scenes and relevant information Jim brings a uinque mindset – open, curious, hungry, and free of prejudice – and ability to re-invent the future based...
Shift Happens!® When You Exploring The WHY behind the "WOW" to retain your Customers and Employees.
Meaning Memories® How To create a Customer Return Policy For A Reason
This program shows you how to create experiences that engage customers in a personal way. to create an indelible, favorable impression. It provides insights that create transformational change within your organization that results in long-term sales growth.Jim provides a revolutionary way of thinking about you...
Forces of Success To Magnify Shifts In Your Business
Tips, tools, and resources from his latest book
The confluence of technology, the pandemic, and the shift in social business interaction have leveled the marketplace.What worked in the past may no longer be productive. It's time to shift HOW to think not what to think.James wrote a book that is a toolbox filled...
VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
Every live presentation is also available for VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
During these challenging times, many meetings have been postponed or canceled. James has been presenting virtual content for almost every topic he offers.It can be challenging to make virtual presentations exciting and engaging. If you’ve ever attended one where drab slides accompanied a low energy...
Shift Happens!® When You Discover Innovation At The Speed Of Opportunity
It's how you think--not what you think-- that makes Shift Happen.
Innovation is how we make money from creativity. Innovation doesn’t come with directions. innovators see the result first.Often called The Bright Idea Guy™ by his clients, Jim brings an unobscured vision and clarity to your audience by focusing on the end results and creating the...
Shift Happens!® When Getting to YES
Managing growth through innovative change requires persuasive presentations that focus on YES.
Acquisitions, reorganizations, expansions and executive changes have created a renewed emphasis in building persuasive presentations that result in YES. Innovation is how we make money from creativity.Today it's all about stability and profitability. Presentations make or break almost every selling or sharing...
Shift Happens!® When You Stop The Stupid Stuff®
Don't let what you think you know prevent you from learning what you need to know.
It's time to Stop The Stupid Stuff®. Stop “Shoulding” All Over Yourself If you want a topic that is “unusual” or “different” this is for you. It is not for the timid.We all take steps that may not be productive and create obstacles for ou...
Shift Happens!® When You Profit from Uncertainty
You can't build your business of tomorrow using the tools of yesterday.
This is for any organization that wants to go from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. It will help your attendees discover how to think differently, communicate better, and make more money.With recent changes in our world, we have to...
Shift Happens!® Requires Persuasive Presentation Skills
How to WoW them instead of 'why' them?
Organizations that sell anything to anyone using visual aids should engage this insightful and resourceful presentation that will take you from boring to WOW. You will leave with the tools and tips to be more impactful, more understandable, and more memorable.Historically visual aids suck. Ofte...
Shift Happens!® To Influence Performance Improvement
Using incentives to increase sales and reduce costs
Properly designed non-cash reward and recognition programs address many of the major business issues to achieve new success.With over 1,000 incentive programs created by Jim's companies, he is a one-of-a-kind expert Most incentive programs rewarded results. They were tracked by sales. Inside staff, productio...
Shift Happens!® When Know The Rules So You Can Break Them.
Lessons from a serial entrepreneur
Nothing cuts through the clutter of today's competitive marketplace like unique products, services, and personal branding that get you noticed in this over-marketed, media saturated environment.This program delivers valuable marketing and promotion tools drawing on the experience of hundreds of other organizations...
Shift Happens!® Requires Thinking 'Inside' The Box
Strategic thinking is above the neck. Tactical is below the neck.
It is estimated worldwide that more than 60% of strategies are not successfully implemented. For anyone who’s tried to execute strategy, this finding should come as no surprise. It's about establishing realistic goals and objectives consistent with your mission, in a defined time frame, withi...
Shift Happens!® When You Dare To Be Different
Creating sustaining client relationships
This is the blueprint for contractually growing your business. Your audience will learn how to develop the skills and strategies needed to rise to the top in a world where clients have almost unlimited access to information and expertise. Discover what clients really want from...
Shift Happens!® At The B2B Bootcamp
If you are not offering incentives and recognition you are losing opportunities to WOW your Customers, Employees, Suppliers.
This Boot Camp will provide focused, relevant, insights into the B2B marketing realm, what it is, and its functions–both short and long term tactics for improving your performance.Real world examples from a real world practitioner. Learn how to get past the gatekeeper to the decisio...
Shift Happens!® If you ask...What IF? What's Possible? What's Next? Why Not?
Ordinary Questions-Extraordinary Results
Ultimately it's about making the future brighter than the past. That act helps you separate yourself from situations, relationships, and activities that could trap you in the past.Instead, Jim demonstrates how to use them to shine a light on the future.Growth is a fundamental huma...
Shift Happens!® If You Use The "F" word on the Journey To Bright Ideas™
Navigating The Roadmap To Success
Jim loves the F word. By F-word he means F.E.A.R. (What did you think he meant?) There are three normal responses...Fight, Flight, Freeze but with encouragement, encourages focus.F.E.A.R. (Failure. Examination. Adjustment. Recollection.)F.E.A.R. is the hidden driver of excellence. It offers management insights to...
Shift Happens!® When Offering Incentive Rewards and Recognition Awards
It's about how to create profit centers through incremental improvements
If your organization is not using incentive rewards for your employees you are missing a self-funding program that can have a positive impact on performance.In the past decade, shift happened. Now there are programs designed to reward employees for performance improvement, achieving business objectives, and...