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James Feldman, CSP, CITE, CPIM, CPT, PCS

CSP
Transformational Leadership Growth Advisor
James Feldman Associates, Inc.
Country or state 
United States
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Global
City 
Chicago
Fee 
Languages 
English
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Yes

Personal Details

Current position (1)

Transformational Leadership Growth Advisor

James Feldman Associates, Inc.

Achievements (3)
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)

Conferred by the National Speakers Association, the CSP is the speaking profession’s international measure of professional platform competence. About 12 percent of the 5,000 + speakers worldwide, , currently hold this professional designation

Certified Incentive and Travel Expert (CITE)

Recognized as one of the most knowledgeable experts in the use of travel and merchandise for performance improvement.

Most Innovative People of 21st Century

Incentive magazine listed 100 of the most innovative individuals of the 21st century that included the founders of Google, Dell, Apple, Microsoft, and others.

Degrees (2)
Business MBA
University of IL
1975 to 1978
Law
Washburn Law School
1968 to 1971

Bio

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The Bright Idea Guy™

James Feldman is a highly accomplished Senior Executive, Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Thought Leader who drives change, innovation, and an improved customer experience for companies across a range of industries including automotive, telecommunications, hospitality, and consumer packaged goods.

Jim delivers transformative ideas that move people from disengaged to engaged, from waiting to become involved to joining in, from curious to committed, from apathy to outright passion, ensuring that Shift Happens!®

Leveraging extensive experience developing and implementing effective strategies to drive business improvements for both non-and for-profit organizations, he is a valuable asset for companies looking to drive growth through promotion, marketing, and sales initiatives.

His broad areas of expertise include brand development, business transformation, leadership development, creative problem solving, new business development, B2B marketing, and strategic planning.

Throughout his executive career, James has founded his own performance improvement companies, James Feldman Associates, Inc. and Shift Happens!®, as well as the Incentive Travelers Cheque International, which revolutionized incentive travel and individual travel awards, which is now a $500M distribution channel. In addition, has been responsible for facilitating Toyota’s launch of Lexus, spearheading the introduction of breakfast at McDonald’s, raising $450M for the Y-ME Breast Cancer Organization, and improving Hewlett-Packards go-to-market strategies.

James’ clients have included leading organizations such as AT&T, Carnival Cruise Lines, Verizon, the Department of Defense, Toyota, Walt Disney, Ritz Carlton, Hewlett-Packard, MGM, Ford, the March of Dimes, and the American Dental Association.

James holds a BA in English & Economics and an MBA in Marketing. In addition, he holds numerous professional certifications, including Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Certified Incentive and Travel Expert (CITE), Master Incentive Professional (MIP), and Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

A highly respected Thought Leader in his field, James is the author of several books including “Thriving on Change in Organizations” and “D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer®" and has written for publications including Adweek, Advertising Age, Investors Business Daily, and Business Travel News. Recognized as one of the top 100 Innovators and Motivators of the past 100 years by Incentive Magazine, he lights up a room with his humor and commitment to transforming the way we think, not what we think. He will help your organization turn uncertainty into confidence. 

As a seasoned Board Member, he has served on the boards of 7 nonprofits, 11 associations, 3 medical boards, and a no-kill animal shelter, with specific organizations including the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation, the Y-ME Breast Cancer Organization, and A Safe Haven Foundation.

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Presentations

Presentations (7)
D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer® It's all about relationships.

Most of the organizations we deal with are besieged by incompetence and a palpable, rampant indifference to the art of creating and keeping a customer, D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer® is what your organization needs to create and maintain great relationships.

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.

Jim's presentation delivers a 'view' that ultimately provides to be so compelling your attendees can never see a Customer in quite the same way again.

In his presentation Jim introduces "best of class" Customer retention insights. Your attendees will learn about how to WOW them, not WHY them. Jim will offer a 'relationship manual to create 'Customer Insistence' that develops a pattern of repeat transactions. It's about being transformational not transactional that creates long term relationships.

Innovation At The Speed of Opportunity on the Journey To Bright Ideas™

Innovation is how we make money from creativity. Innovation doesn’t come with directions. innovators see the result first.

Jim brings an unobscured vision and clarity to your audience by focusing on the end results and creating the path to get there.

He knows that today's business leaders are zeroed in on not only what gets done but more importantly how it gets done. It's not only about what you think but HOW you think that makes innovation possible.

Your audience will learn innovative decision making and business tools to help build business at the intersection of technology, changes, competition, and employee apathy.

In this interactive presentation, he connects ideas to the people who can improve and act on them, helping more ideas get the visibility and input they needed to thrive. It is about doing things differently avoid false compromises, and create disruption or use disruptive technology.

It's all about ensuring that Shift Happens!®

Profiting From Uncertainty

Resistance is the most common side effect of change.

Now is the time for your organization to stop worrying about election results, competitors, economy and and take things into your own hands. This program gives you dozens of resources, tools, tips, and training that you need to make things happen under any condition.

With recent changes in our world, we have to be more prepared than ever to know how to make things happen under any conditions.

Learn proven systems that convert your Big Ideas to help achieve your goals, overcome your challenges, solve problems, and better prepare you and your organization for the uncertainty of the years ahead.

This is for any organization that wants to go from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. The main point here is that resistance merely offers evidence that people feel the change.

This program will help your attendees discover how to think differently, communicate better, and make more money.

Getting To YES. Persuasive Presentation Skills

Organizations that sell anything to anyone should engage this insightful and resourceful presentation that will take you from boring to WOW. Your audience will leave with the tools and tips to be more impactful, more understandable, and more memorable.

A persuasive presentation is different than an informative presentation. It's not one that you can put without preparation or wing it no matter how well you've mastered your topic.

All presentations require meticulous effort. There's much at stake when you're trying to persuade someone to buy in to your idea, adopt your solution or approve your proposal.

This a compilation of proven tips, techniques and best practices that can help you to become more a more persuasive and influential presenter. You'll leave with greater insights into all the elements that make up your presentation' that will keep you audience engaged and your information more impactful.

Shift Happens when you ask: What IF? What's Possible? What's Next? Why Not?

Growth is a fundamental human need. We all seek a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, problem solving, and progress. However with our 'time crunch' and 'reduced resources' and being 'asked to do more with less' the challenge increases.

Can we create a process that turns good intentions into real results and superior performance? Jim asks the audience what would happen to your organization if each individual took charge of their future and increased their contributions to the growth of your organization?

Jim renews hope in people, reminds them of their own intrinsic value, and helps them think what is most important in their lives.

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 he demonstrates how to use them to shine a light on the future.

It's all about the "F" word on the Journey To Bright Ideas™

I love the F word. By F-word I mean F.E.A.R. (What did you think he meant?) There are three normal responses...Fight, Flight, Freeze but with encouragement I offer them FOCUS. It's Feldman's answer to FEAR that will engage your audience.

F.E.A.R. (Failure. Examination. Adjustment. Recollection.)

F.E.A.R. is the hidden driver of excellence. It offers new focus, offers management insights to overcome failure, and refine what works and what doesn't.

As a successful innovator, change agent, and market transformer I can demonstrate to your audience how to break through complexity, constraints, and constrictions to achieve greater abundance, freedom, and success. As a presenter Ji visuals are compelling, easy to understand, and contain very few words.

He will hep create a Brilliant Idea Checklist that will help attendees discover new opportunities using existing resources.

The need for Innovation has never been clearer.

Utilizing Metrics to Improve Operations and the Customer Experience

Gain a better understanding of how to determine what key metrics customer service groups should be measuring and how to use the information to wow your customers.

This topic will provide you how to better build rapport with customers, maintaining a positive attitude, listening with attention and empathy, dealing with angry customers, problem-solving and tips for dealing with customers over the phone and on email.

Agenda
What Gets Measured Gets Done…Especially If There Are Associated Rewards
Every Organization Is Different. One Size Does Not Fit All. Same With Customers. a Policy Is Not the Way to Wow Your Customers
Create Actionable, Measurable, Consistent Ways to Monitor the Wow Factor and Retention of Your Customers
Get Consensus From Those in the Center of Gravity as to What Works and What Doesn't
Develop a Resolution Rate
Reply Time to First Contact With Customer Service Issue
Monitor Complaint Backlogs
Evaluate Number and Frequency of Escalated Cases to Upper Management

Workshops (1)
Getting To Yes-Triggers to motivate, influence and persuade
Full day
(View workshop agenda)

It’s not what you put into it…it’s what they get out of it.Effectively increase the business impact of your presentations by applying useful tools, tips, and resources.

Past talks (11)
Innovative Problem Solving Executive Workshop
ADME
United States
December 31, 2013
Shift Happens: If you fail to plan then you plan to fail
InfoComm International
Seattle-Chicago-Miami-Houston-Dallas-New York-Los Angeles
December 31, 2014
How to be more productive
American Invsco
United States
December 31, 2016
Shift Happens!: Individual Incentive Rewards
GSI Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
December 31, 2013
DATING Your Customer
Small Business Expo Houston
United States
December 31, 2015
Presentation Tips and Tools
Merrill Corporation
United States
December 31, 2015
Shift Happens: If you fail to plan then you plan to fail
Creamation Association of NA
United States
December 31, 2015
Shift Happens: If you fail to plan then you plan to fail
Small Business Expo Chicago, Boston, New York, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis
United States
December 31, 2015
D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer®
Mandalay Bay Sales Team
Las Vegas
December 31, 2016
D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer®
American Family Insurance
Madison WI
December 31, 2016
3D Thinking on the Journey To Bright Ideas™
Harvard University Investors and Advisors
Harvard University-Cambridge MA
December 31, 2015
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Profiting From Uncertainty
Shift Happens!®
James Feldman Speaker Packet

Books & Articles (13)

DATING Your Customer®
Open Books Press,
2017
Shift Happens!®
Open Books Press,
2011
Doctor Travel's® Cure For The Common Trip
Sage Press,
2010
Celebrate Customer Service
Select Press,
2005
Thriving On Change
Institute For Organizational Change,
2003
D-A-T-I-N-G Your Customer®
Open Press,
2019
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU INNOVATE INSTEAD OF REPLICATE.f
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU BECOME A ‘VALUE INTERPRETER’ FOR YOUR CUSTOMER.
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU CREATE A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE.
HOW TO BE A BETTER PRESENTER
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU DELIVER WOW CUSTOMER SERVICE
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU INNOVATE
SHIFT HAPPENS!® WHEN YOU DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMER

Expertise (38)

Business
Leadership
Media & Marketing
Travel & Adventure
PR & Communications
shift happens Innovation Change Business Innovation Customer Service Keynote Speaker Consciously Leading Innovative Change Persuasive Presentations Communication Consulting opportunities Business Success change agent Customer Acquisition customer delight Shift your mindset Authoritative Knowledge Accomplished Author interactive keynote speaker Keynote Business Growth Branding for Small Business Career Coach Marketing business networking Authors Advanced Presentation Skills Business Creativity Business Entrepreneurs Creative Entrepreneurship business and creativity Business and Innovation

Clients

Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Apple, Toyota, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, CocaCola, Helene Curtis, K-Mart

Awards & certifications (6)

Certified Speaking Professional
National Speakers Association
2016
Platform Certified Speaker
International Platform Association
2015
Certified Performance Technologist
International Society for Performance Improvement
2011
Certified Incentive and Travel Executive
Society of Incentive and Travel Executives
1988
Certified Professional of Incentive Marketing
Association of Incentive Marketing
2010
Certified Photographic Counselor
Photo Marketing Association
1977

Reviews

Testimonials (11)
  • I had the distinct pleasure of working with Jim in October of 2013 during International Customer Service Week. Jim was our organization’s keynote speaker for BASF’s Customer Care Summit. Jim’s innovative and creative mind enabled him to communicate to every level of the organization. He truly captures his audience and keeps their attention delivering powerful and thought provoking dialogue. Jim delivered his speech at three Customer Care hubs for BASF, I received feedback such as “the best speaker we’ve ever been exposed to”, “I’m going to use his tips right away”, “Jim really gets it”. I highly recommend Jim and would hire him again for any type of keynote speaking engagement.
    Gail Englesbe
    Sr. Operations Manager
    Medidata Solutions
    Verified
  • It is with great pleasure that I endorse Mr. James Feldman. A friend, a business associate, a consummate professional and perhaps one of the most creative people I will ever meet. When he solves a problem for your business, my experience is that it will be totally out of the box and a solution that you have never thought of. Jim is a perfect solution for the difficult business climate that we all face today. His marketing acumen and inside-the-box solutions often leave business leaders and consultants in the proverbial dust. I’ve known Jim since the mid 80’s. Over the past few years, Jim has developed a unique professional speaking practice that directly ties in his vast business knowledge with his warmth, candor, and fascinating personal history. Jim is a true entrepreneur and brings that experience when working with any size company. He is a person of personal integrity, a genuine pleasure to work with and one of the funniest people I know. I recommend him and his companies without hesitation.
    Joseph Sugarman
    Chairman of the Board
    BluBlocker Corporation
    Verified
  • Jim Feldman is amazing. Often times when writing a testimonial for a dear friend, I cringe and grope for things to say. NOT so with Jim Feldman. Where do I start? He's an incredible speaker, trainer and presenter...a master of the stage and spoken word. His knowledge of hospitality and client motivation is unexcelled. A gourmet and wine expert...world-class. He's a businessman keenly aware of the market...a deal-maker...a connector, putting products and services in front of those that truly need them. BUT, to me, most of all; he's a trusted friend. His word means something and his handshake is an unbreakable contract. I'll put my name on his integrity. A 20-year relationship as friends and professional speakers; Jim Feldman is dynamic and informative. My admiration for Jim goes beyond his words, it's the concrete results he produces that sets him apart from most speakers.
    Jim Ziegler
    Professional Speaker/Conference Producer
    Planning Marriott Corporation
    Verified
  • Working with Jim both as a fellow Incentive Research Foundation Trustee and as a customer of Marriott is a delight. He challenges our thinking, proposes innovative ideas, and develops creative solutions. If you are looking for someone to help you overcome obstacles and see the possibilities from a new lens, Jim is a terrific partner!
    Stacey Milne
    VP, Portfolio Marketing Strategy
    Sanborn & Associates, Inc.
    Verified
  • Jim Feldman is one of the most creative, connection-making, opportunity creating people I know. Among the many things I admire about Jim in addition to his own creativity and ability to teach others is his hustle and drive--in the best sense of both words. Jim makes things happen, and shows others how they can, too.
    Mark Sanborn
    President
    NA Channels at Ergotron
    Verified
  • Jim Feldman goes beyond just an entertaining presenter; he reads his audience and captivates you with spot on examples that hit home, and then moves you to participation and shifting your way of thinking. He is able to demonstrate ideas simply but with relevance to a wide variety of participants – and the take home tools reinforce the training for days and months to follow.
    Betty Grogan
    AVP
    MW Mobile Media
    Verified
  • James is one of the best and brightest "thinkers" I know. Creative, intelligent, organized but outside the box. James is the kind of individual that can create ideas and solutions in most any situation, and is a real treasure of implementation of his creative talents, which are many.
    Mike Willett
    Owner/Director
    Luxury Sales at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
    Verified
  • Jim is dynamic, creative and always forward-thinking. He is a charismatic speaker who engages his audience.
    Mary Gallo
    Global Account Director
    Royale Caribbean Resort and Spa
    Verified
  • I have had the opportunity to hear James speak at two different conferences, and both times you nailed it so well, that I can't help but wanting to recommend you as speaker.
    Bent Hadler
    ADMEI President 2015
    Hotel El Ganzo Grupo Questro
    Verified
  • James is definitely the go to guy. He has a way of putting things in a whole new light that is always spot on and inspirational. James can command an audience but with the greatest humility and cleverly engage them with quick wit and truly genuine sincerity that appeals to everyone and anyone. I am so grateful to know him and feel very fortunate to have had him both as a speaker and a coach.
    Ileana Rousseau
    Director of Sales and Marketing
    Verified
  • It has been a pleasure and joy to work with James Feldman over several years and visits, when he mezmerized Marquis Los Cabos ( a Leading Hotel of The World) workforce with very motivating Service & Customer CARE seminars. The results were immediately felt and longlasting, translating into reputation improvement as well as sales growth. I will always have James as my first speaker at any business that I run because he delivers tangible results to a team. Thank you Jim!
    Ella Messerli
    Director
    Verified
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