The Companies I've Built to Help People Build Better Relationships
Relationships Are My Business
I’ve spent my career in roles where success depends on building relationships, creating opportunities, and connecting the right people.
- Property Management: I built partnerships that turned ideas into tangible assets while navigating complex deals, handle high-stakes negotiations, and keep multiple stakeholders aligned.
-Food & Beverage management: I advised entrepreneurs on how to protect and grow their ventures. Mastering customer experience in high-pressure operations with low margins.
-Director of Membership: Commerce Club in Atlanta:
I work with the city’s most influential professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders—helping them connect with each other in ways that lead to real business growth.
Ways to work with me
Strategic Relationship Snapshot Session
Designed for business owners who want an intentional and tailored experience designed to help them identify the untapped relationships and opportunities around them.
What it looks like
✓ Uncovering underutilized strategic relationships that already exist
✓ Clarity on the purpose of strategic relationships in your business
✓ Evaluation of business readiness and approach when seeking strategic relationships
Best for:
✓ Service Providers who already have established relationships but are unsure on how to leverage the relationships around them.
✓ Founder-led businesses desiring new relationships to expand their business.
✓ Operators who are self-starters but looking for direction or clarity with relationships.
This is an intentional session focused on clear results and progress. Not a casual or surface-level meeting.
Strategic Relationship Snapshot Session
Designed for business owners who want an intentional and tailored experience designed to help them identify the untapped relationships and opportunities around them.
What it looks like
✓ Uncovering underutilized strategic relationships that already exist
✓ Clarity on the purpose of strategic relationships in your business
✓ Evaluation of business readiness and approach when seeking strategic relationships
Best for:
✓ Service Providers who already have established relationships but are unsure on how to leverage the relationships around them.
✓ Founder-led businesses desiring new relationships to expand their business.
✓ Operators who are self-starters but looking for direction or clarity with relationships.
This is an intentional session focused on clear results and progress. Not a casual or surface-level meeting.
General Business Services
For the client interested in services other than a consultation, and are seeking intentional, outcome-driven engagement across business development, visibility, and execution through relationships.
Best For
✓ Organizations seeking structured support for events, programming, or relationship-driven initiatives
✓ Founder-led businesses needing strategic involvement beyond consulting conversations
✓ Service providers looking to increase visibility, credibility, or access through intentional engagement
✓ Operators who value clarity, professionalism, and execution over one-off or transactional support
What It Looks Like
✓ Strategic speaking, facilitation, or moderated conversations aligned to a clear objective
✓ Curated events, programming, and experiences designed to create meaningful connection and impact
✓ Advisory support for partnerships, community engagement, and growth initiatives
✓ Media appearances, interviews, and training sessions that reinforce positioning and credibility
✓ Custom introductions and relationship support tied to specific business goals
Ways to work with me
Strategic Relationship Snapshot Session
Designed for business owners who want an intentional and tailored experience designed to help them identify the untapped relationships and opportunities around them.
What it looks like
Uncovering underutilized strategic relationships that already exist
Clarity on the purpose of strategic relationships in your business
Evaluation of business readiness and approach when seeking strategic relationships
Best for:
Service Providers who already have established relationships but are unsure on how to leverage the relationships around them.
Founder-led businesses desiring new relationships to expand their business.
Operators who are self-starters but looking for direction or clarity with relationships.
This is an intentional session focused on clear results and progress. Not a casual or surface-level meeting.
General Business Services
For the client interested in services other than a consultation, such as speaking, event curation, advisory services, media appearances, training, custom introductions, or other services.
One Philosophy, Four Ways to Put It Into Practice
Every business I've built comes from the same belief: relationships are the mechanism for achieving anything worth achieving. Not a nice-to-have — the strategy itself.
Over the years, that belief has taken different shapes. Sometimes it looks like consulting with an organization's leadership to rebuild how their members experience community. Sometimes it's standing in a room teaching professionals how to walk into a networking event with confidence. Sometimes it's as simple as a card on a table that turns two strangers into a real conversation.
Below are the companies and frameworks I've built to bring that philosophy to life — each one designed for a different moment, a different audience, and a different way of putting relationships to work.
Strategic Relationship Snapshot Session
Designed for business owners who want an intentional and tailored experience designed to help them identify the untapped relationships and opportunities around them.
What it looks like
✓ Uncovering underutilized strategic relationships that already exist
✓ Clarity on the purpose of strategic relationships in your business
✓ Evaluation of business readiness and approach when seeking strategic relationships
Best for:
✓ Service Providers who already have established relationships but are unsure on how to leverage the relationships around them.
✓ Founder-led businesses desiring new relationships to expand their business.
✓ Operators who are self-starters but looking for direction or clarity with relationships.
This is an intentional session focused on clear results and progress. Not a casual or surface-level meeting.
The SRC Group
The SRC Group is James's consulting practice that helps membership-based organizations move off a growth plateau by rebuilding experiential strategy, partnerships, and member engagement.
Best For
✓ Georgia based membership-based organizations (100–750 members)
✓ Executive Directors or Membership Directors desiring enhanced programing and member experience initiatives.
✓ Organizations ready for outside perspective, with budget flexibility and a clear decision-maker
What It Looks Like
✓ Diagnostic-first approach — identifying the real gaps before building the fix
✓ Bespoke strategy based on your organization's most pressing needsprograming and member experience initiatives.
✓ Ongoing partnership with ongoing accountability, not a one-and-done deliverable
Super Connector Academy
Super Connector Academy is James's networking education program that teaches the practical tactics of building relationships before, during, and after any room you walk into.
Best For
✓ Early-career professionals and individuals wanting to network with more confidence and intention
✓ Organizations and universities looking to build networking skills into their programming
✓Anyone who wants a repeatable and scalable system for relationship building, not just " make more connections"
What It Looks Like
✓ Live, facilitator-led training built around real-world networking scenarios
✓ A structured curriculum that takes you from mindset to execution to follow-through
✓ Flexible delivery for individuals, teams, or full organization
My Networking Style
My Networking Style is a self-awareness framework that helps people understand their natural networking approach so they can network more authentically and effectively.
Best For
✓ People who want to network in a way that feels natural to them rather than forced
✓ Teams and organizations looking for an engaging icebreaker or activation for events, such as team building or development
✓ Anyone who wants to understand not just how to network, but who they are as a networker
What It Looks Like
✓A quick, insightful assessment that reveals your natural networking style
✓ Personalized frameworks for how you build and manage relationships
✓ Easy to integrate into workshops, onboarding, or team-building session
Networking Conversation Cards
Networking Conversation Cards are an engaging, tactile tool that sparks meaningful conversation and breaks the ice at events, meetings, and gatherings.
Best For
✓ Event organizers looking to add an engaging icebreaker element for their events or activations.
✓ Teams or groups wanting to foster deeper conversations beyond small talk
✓ Anyone who wants a low-pressure way to build real connection while networking
What It Looks Like
✓ A simple, guided tool for sparking meaningful conversation
✓ Topics that move people past small talk into real connection
✓ Curated Ice breaker for events, meetings, or team gatherings
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