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FLAIR

FLAIR shows you how to add meaning and joy to your products, services, and everyday work that draws in customers, colleagues, and audiences and creates a positive and lasting impression. The techniques outlined apply to businesses of all sizes, to teams, and to individuals.

 

Events
Book

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

DESIGN MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE REVIEW
Inside Practices for Outside Success / Outside  Ideas for Inside Success

 

Article by Jim and Jennifer Poage about why some companeis are and some are not successful at creating engaging design.

http://www.dmi.org/?page=Review

 

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

DESIGN MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE REVIEW
Inside Practices for Outside Success / Outside  Ideas for Inside Success

 

Article by Jim and Jennifer Poage about why some companeis are and some are not successful at creating engaging design.

http://www.dmi.org/?page=Review

 

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

DESIGN MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE REVIEW
Inside Practices for Outside Success / Outside  Ideas for Inside Success

 

Article by Jim and Jennifer Poage about why some companeis are and some are not successful at creating engaging design.

http://www.dmi.org/?page=Review

 

AUGUST 17, 2016
 

CLAIM THE STAGE--Podcast Interview with Angela Lussier, Episode 15
We Need to Talk About Flair

Energizing you audicne in public speaking. Interview with Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/angela-lussier/claim-the-stage/e/ep-15-we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair-45918830

 

AUGUST 17, 2016
 

CLAIM THE STAGE--Podcast Interview with Angela Lussier, Episode 15
We Need to Talk About Flair

Energizing you audicne in public speaking. Interview with Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/angela-lussier/claim-the-stage/e/ep-15-we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair-45918830

 

ARTICLES & EVENTS

Bookings

OCTOBER 25, 2017
 

CONCORD FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS - Panel Participant
How to Write a GREAT Book!

Panel discussion on how to write a book and get it published.

NOVEMBER 13, 2017
 

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTS - Presentation
Create Memorable Experiences for Your Clients

How to energize clients to hire and re-hire you.

NOVEMBER 10, 2017
 

CRIMSON CONSULTING COLLABORATIVE - Workshop
Tips to Make Your Writing Pop

Make you writing on your website, LinkedIn profile, other social media, proposals, and reports POP to get readers to lean-in, pay attention, and follow-up.

MAY 23, 2017
 

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS: BOSTON CONSULTANTS NETWORK - Presentation
Engage with Clients Emotionally

How to gain new and follow-on work.

OCTOBER 20, 2016
 

STANFORD CLUB OF NEW ENGLAND - Presentation
Effective Flair: Be an Energizer and Write a Book

Talked about using flair in influencing and selling in whatever work one does. Also covered writing and published a book.

 

DECEMBER 6, 2016
 

CEO REFRESHER - Online article
How to Find the Joyful Essence in Your Offerings

Do your customers and audiences say, "Wow, this is neat." Or do they just say, "Okay, this looks alright; maybe I'll consider it." You offering will have a stronger pull for customers if it offers “something exciting.” This pull comes from the joyful essence of the offering: what causes customers to desire it emotionally and energizes them to purchase the offering.

http://www.refresher.com/how-to-find-the-joyful-essence-in-your-offerings/

AUGUST 2016
 

SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES - Online article on The Independent Consultant
How to Energize your Clients and Audiences

How to sell your work to perspective clients to get business; sell your results to get them accepted by clients, colleagues, and managers; and sell proposed ideas to managers and colleagues to be approved.

https://www.soa.org/News-and-Publications/Newsletters/The-Independent-Consultant/2016/august/Energize-your-Clients-and-Audiences.aspx

 

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

AUTHORITY MARKETING - Podcast
FLAIR: Energize Your Customers, Colleagures, and Audiences

Baking marketing into a product or service using flair.designers.  Podcast interview with text transscript.

 

http://authoritymarketing.com/blog/podcast/flair-energize-your-customers-colleagues-and-audiences-with-jim-poage/

 

AUGUST 17, 2016
 

CLAIM THE STAGE - Podcast Interview with Angela Lussier, Episode 15
We Need to Talk About Flair

Energizing you audicne in public speaking. Interview with Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/angela-lussier/claim-the-stage/e/ep-15-we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair-45918830

 

JULY 11, 2016
 

AMA (American Management Association) - Online article on AMA PLAYBOOK
5 Reasons People Love a Good Story

Storytelling in business conveys information in a stimulating manner and makes it memorable, and a narrative approach engages customers and audiences emotionally, energizing them to act.

http://j.mp/2aQg8jl

 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
 

DIGITAL THIRST - Online article
Creating Consistent and Delightful Customer Experiences in an Imperfect World - by Jason Compton

Jim Poage quoted in this article.

https://www.digitalthirst.com/item/creating-consistent-and-delightful-customer-experiences-in-an-imperfect-world

 

FEBRUARY 13, 2016
 

WLOB HR Power Hour - Radio Interview

 

Radio interview with Jim about the book FLAIR was broadcast Feb 13 on the “HR Power Hour” show on WLOB AM 1310 out of Portland, ME. The pod cast is now on the website, hrppowerhour.com. Or you can go directly to the webcast at http://www.cmacareer.com/hrpowerhour//HR02132016done.mp3.

 

ARTICLES & EVENTS

Bookings

To learn more about speaking engagements, holding workshops, and consulting, contact Jim at  
poage@post.harvard.edu

 

MAY 10, 2019
 

Interview on RVN TV on New Perspective Show Hosted by Barry Lefkowitz
Create an Emotional Energizing Connection with Audiences, Readers, and Customers

Interview discussion about developing emotional and energizing relationships based on Jim and his daughter Jenn Poage’s book Flair: Design Your Daily Work, Products, and Services to Energize Customers, Colleagues, and Audiences.

MAY 10, 2019
 

VOICES ON THE GREEN: Storytelling Event - Storyteller
My Best Mistake

Told story of how finally facing up to a mistake in the way I studied in college led to success in graduate school and in my career. 

One of 7 storytellers at the Voices on the Green storytelling event at the First Parish Church in Lexington, MA.

JULY 2016
 

CEO CLUB of BOSTON - Video Excerpt of Presentation
Effective Flair: Energize Others to Act

Video except of talk on how to engage customers and colleagues with flair so they will follow up and act.

https://youtu.be/bZwRoFFKgW8

 

AUGUST 2016
 

SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES - Online article on The Independent Consultant
How to Energize your Clients and Audiences

Article covering How to: Sell your work to perspective clients to get business; Sell your results to get them accepted by clients, colleagues, and managers; and Sell proposed ideas to managers and colleagues to be approved.

 

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

DESIGN MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE REVIEW - Journal article
Inside Practices for Outisde Success / Outside Ideas for Inside Success

Article by Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage about why some companies are and some are not successful at creating engaging design even though they both employ good designers.

http://www.dmi.org/?page=Review

 

OCTOBER 10, 2018

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: Guest Lecture at Course "The Entrepreneurs Cocktail – Human Innovation, Creativity and Hard Work"
Move the Human Heart – Engage Customers’ Emotions

Talk on how to apply Design Thinking to develop a digital marketing campaign and reduce risks of not meeting marketing objectives and of having implementation problems.

AUGUST 16, 2018
 

DIGITAL SUMMIT BOSTON: DIGITAL MARKETING CONFERENCE 2018 - Speaker
Reduce Risk in Digital Marketing with Design Thinking

Talk on how to apply Design Thinking to develop a digital marketing campaign and reduce risks of not meeting marketing objectives and of having implementation problems.

AUGUST 16, 2018
 

DIGITAL SUMMIT BOSTON: DIGITAL MARKETING CONFERENCE 2018 - Speaker
Reduce Risk in Digital Marketing with Design Thinking

Talk on how to apply Design Thinking to develop a digital marketing campaign and reduce risks of not meeting marketing objectives and of having implementation problems.

OCTOBER 25, 2017
 

CONCORD FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS - Panel Participant
How to Write a GREAT Book!

Panel discussion on how to write a book and get it published.

NOVEMBER 13, 2017
 

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS - Online Course
Design Thinking for Technical Work

Design Thinking has garnered much attention in recent years mainly as a way to design consumer products that engage users, such as Apple’s iPhone. But its use is spreading to situations ranging from how to provide medical care to planning one’s career. This course explains what Design Thinking is about, but, most important, explains how an individual can apply Design Thinking to their own work.

For more information, go to:

NOVEMBER 13, 2017
 

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL CONSULTS - Presentation
Create Memorable Experiences for Your Clients

How to energize clients to hire and re-hire you.

NOVEMBER 10, 2017
 

CRIMSON CONSULTING COLLABORATIVE - Workshop
Tips to Make Your Writing Pop

Make you writing on your website, LinkedIn profile, other social media, proposals, and reports POP to get readers to lean-in, pay attention, and follow-up.

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

Business Talent Group - Online article
How to be More Persuasive

Just because you don’t work in sales doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know how to sell. We might sell our work to clients , or sell ideas to managers and colleagues for approval. Successful business leaders need to connect with people—and persuade them to take action.

https://businesstalentgroup.com/blog/be-more-persuasive/

 

DECEMBER 2016
 

WebEngage - WEBINAR
Supercharging Your Communication With Personalization

 

Use flair to personalize your cloud and online communication with clients to create an emotional pull to what you are offering.

https://monk.webengage.com/resources/webinar-supercharging-your-communication-with-personalization/

 

SEPTEMBER 2016
 

AUTHORITY MARKETING - Podcast
FLAIR: Energize Your Customers, Colleagures, and Audiences

Baking marketing into a product or service using flair.designers.  Podcast interview with text transscript.

 

http://authoritymarketing.com/blog/podcast/flair-energize-your-customers-colleagues-and-audiences-with-jim-poage/

 

AUGUST 17, 2016
 

CLAIM THE STAGE - Podcast Interview with Angela Lussier, Episode 15
We Need to Talk About Flair

Energizing you audicne in public speaking. Interview with Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/angela-lussier/claim-the-stage/e/ep-15-we-need-to-talk-about-your-flair-45918830

 

MAY 23, 2017
 

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS: BOSTON CONSULTANTS NETWORK - Presentation
Engage with Clients Emotionally

How to gain new and follow-on work.

JULY 11, 2016
 

AMA (American Management Association) - Online article on AMA PLAYBOOK
5 Reasons People Love a Good Story

Storytelling in business conveys information in a stimulating manner and makes it memorable, and a narrative approach engages customers and audiences emotionally, energizing them to act.

http://j.mp/2aQg8jl

 

OCTOBER 20, 2016
 

STANFORD CLUB OF NEW ENGLAND - Presentation
Effective Flair: Be an Energizer and Write a Book

Talked about using flair in influencing and selling in whatever work one does. Also covered writing and published a book.

 

DECEMBER 6, 2016
 

CEO REFRESHER - Online article
How to Find the Joyful Essence in Your Offerings

Do your customers and audiences say, "Wow, this is neat." Or do they just say, "Okay, this looks alright; maybe I'll consider it." You offering will have a stronger pull for customers if it offers “something exciting.” This pull comes from the joyful essence of the offering: what causes customers to desire it emotionally and energizes them to purchase the offering.

http://www.refresher.com/how-to-find-the-joyful-essence-in-your-offerings/

FEBRUARY 13, 2016
 

WLOB HR Power Hour - Radio Interview

 

Radio interview with Jim about the book FLAIR was broadcast Feb 13 on the “HR Power Hour” (hrpowerhour.com) show on WLOB AM 1310 out of Portland, ME. You can go directly to the interview at:

AboutJim

ABOUT JIM

Jim became focused on technology, systems engineering, optimization, and patterns while studying at Stanford and Harvard Univerisities. Today, his career has evolved to include processes, suppliers, employees, culture, external influences, storytelling, and other success factors. He has worked with major national, government, and international clients, including The World Bank, NASA, and SAAB Sensis.

Most recently, Jim has written the book, FLAIR, with his daughter Jennifer Poage who works in fashion design. It is available March 15, 2016 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

CONSULTING

Clients

 

Founded in 2003, JLP Performance Consulting helps clients:

  • Make better decisions through development of decision-making processes based on measurable data

  • Enhance performance that involves human and technology interactions

  • Obtain consensus of stakeholders in decisions and formulating actions, through facilitation and coaching

  • Engage customers emotionally and increase sales, by adding flair to products and services

  • Increase memorability and adoption, by adding flair to daily work

 

Consulting

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