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Why do meeting planners consider James the world's most electrifying speaker and trainer?
James has the rare passion and ability to engage, entertain, empower and change people!
James knows how to spark change in your students, parents, professional members and staff and equip them to overcome their obstacles, achieve their greatest potential, and make the impossible, possible.Click here for more information or to request quote for a seminar or training session now!
From At-Risk to Ambitious™
How to Effectively Engage, Educate & Empower At-Risk Communities
In this seminar and training session, James will deliver proven techniques and ideas about how to engage at-risk youth and teens, increase parental involvement, leverage hip-hop culture and change the mentality, habits and attitudes of at-risk individuals, families and communities.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Increase Parental Involvement
• Engage, Influence and Empower At-Risk Individuals
• Apply Proven Methods to Strengthen Relationships
• Create Programs that Attract Youth, Teens & Parents
• Build Community Credibility & Trust
Grind for Greatness!™
How to Go From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Definition of Grind: when an individual or organization creates success using ambition, vision, strategy and perseverance to go from where they are to where they want to be.
James delivers his most requested, breath-taking and powerful presentation on the concept of “Grinding,” which demonstrates how individuals and organizations create success and achieve their greatest potential applying the “Final Four” features of ambition, vision strategy and perseverance.
Once an individual or organization learns and adopts the "Final Four" qualities, skills and characteristics presented in this keynote, they will immediately start grinding out of failure and from setbacks, toward achieving their greatest potential in business and life!
Attendees will learn how to:
• Develop Coping Skills to Overcome Obstacles
• Become Resilient & Circumvent Circumstances
• Develop Creativity, Innovation, & Passion
• Embrace Stress & Turn it into Success
• Create & Execute Strategies for Personal & Team Success
From Corporate Ladder to Elevator™
How Working Professionals Can Skyrocket Their Success
In this seminar and training session, working professionals can remarkably improve their performance, management skills, and become more productive, while creating value for their company or organization by developing an "entrepreneurial mentality," and learning how to take ownership of their career.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Take 100% Ownership for Their Duties & Departments
• Develop Discipline and Focus to Produce a Desired Result
• Retain, Recognize and Inspire Employees
• Not Ask for a Raise, But Create Value First
• Organize Their Financial Life
• Leverage Employee Ambitions Into Company Value Adds
From Mediocre to Magnificent™
How Working Professionals, Entrepreneurs, & Organizations Can Grind to Greatness!
In one of his most requested seminars, James presents the qualities, skills, and techniques that individuals and organizations must embody to catapult their teams and organizations to the next level in today's volatile and competitive marketplace.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Embrace individual & organizational change
• Strategically plan & execute for peak performance
• Create goals that force growth & development
• Channel passion into their organization
• Apply the "Final Four Features" to greatness
Hearts of Leaders™
The Process of Grinding into a Leader
Jump off the corporate ladder and take the elevator to success! The leadership skills that worked in the past are quickly becoming irrelevant in today's fast-paced, changing world. To be effective, leaders today must know how to adapt to and drive change.What qualities do human resource managers of corporations and community organizations look for when hiring today’s working professionals? Leadership skills are stated as the most critical factor in the hiring process.
This seminar and training session will teach your audience how to build their professional brand, how to obtain the job they want and how to go from contender to champion!
Attendees will learn how to:
• Build High Performance Teams
• Apply the Art & Science of Leadership
• Become Changemakers
• Develop the Essential Features of a Leader
• Engage, Influence, & Develop Others
• Develop Charisma, Integrity & more!
The Success Process™
Grinding Through the Process of Success is Worth More Than Achieving Success
A new "life-changing & mind refining” seminar on encountering difficult circumstances, and how to endure and exceed those circumstances to achieve personal and professional success. James guides the audience through essential success process and prepares them with tools for each of the phases, while describing what it will take to complete the process of achieving success.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Circumvent life’s circumstances
• Develop self-confidence & emotional endurance
• Emerge into a leader & develop professionalism
• Develop discipline, diligence, & determination
• Take initiative and build a proactive philosophy
Emerging Entrepreneurs
So You Have a Business Plan, Now What?
A powerful seminar that was created to equip, inspire and motivate beginning entrepreneurs to implement their new business plan and create wealth. In this workshop participants will learn how to develop a viable business model and transition from the planning stages to startup success.
Participants will leave the class knowing how to strategically choose appropriate legal business structures, execute their business plan with entrepreneur endurance, creatively obtain start up capital, and build a successful new business on a shoestring budget.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Implement their business plan
• Create & develop a viable business model
• Transition from planning stages to startup success
• Strategically choose legal business structures
• Develop Entrepreneur endurance
• Creatively obtain capital
• Build a business on a shoestring budget
As an experienced speaker and trainer, James can also customize a program to impact your audience's needs and produce your desired results.
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