JAMES FLOYD

• Taught kids ages 5–17 mindset, habits, and gratefulness.
• Consistently changed sites and built credibility and leadership stake with different groups of kids.
• Developed engaging programming and supported site operations.

• Private-session coaching for kids alongside Boys & Girls Clubs work.
• Skill development, game IQ, and self-regulation on the field.

• Officiated youth basketball games — game management, sportsmanship, and clear communication with players and parents.

• Coached sports, taught English, and trained mentality in kids ages 5–20.
• Spent time networking and learning from everyone possible — from 95+ year-old tribal leaders to big and small business owners.

• Lived deep in Northern India and taught English, business, and mindset to villagers.
• Traveled to learn from monks, Sikhs, mountain men, and many others — built resilience, perspective, gratitude, and resolve.

• Coached kids between the India trip and Chief of Staff work at Keiretsu — sports and character development.

• Camp for children of parents affected by cancer.
• Organized events and led campers in activities — from rock climbing to facilitating difficult conversations about realities of life.

• Service organization establishing positive values and skills in young men.
• Leader and experienced scout — skills spanning survival, event organization, and mentorship.

• First long-term job — helping with kids ages 0–5.
• Learned to motivate, excite, and keep kids happy while doing basic math, letters, and languages exercises.

• Private jet-hangar parties for family offices. Also dinners, yachts, and resorts.
• Ran events across SLC, Vegas, Miami, NY, and SF.
• Ran or supported event production at high-profile venues including Trump Doral Miami, Caesars Palace, The Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, and private jet hangars.
• Delivered event quality that resulted in cumulative AUM in the room of $400B to $2+ trillion.

• Brought ideas into reality and solved problems before and as they happened.
• Covered Marketing, Operations, Event and Content Production, Administration, Partnerships, and Strategy.
• Ran a successful overhaul of website, top-of-funnel, and search marketing — moved the site from bottom 30% globally to top 1% technically and tripled impressions and customer visits.
• Built a podcast studio and equipment setup → 100k+ views.
• Automated content production with AI agents → 100k+ views and 30 hrs/week saved.

• Managed and ensured the run-of-show for a gathering of ~2,000 family offices and qualified individuals.
• Traveled to establish in-person (hybrid) events in place of virtual — the transition more than doubled investment interest.

• Key member of a 23-person team facilitating $100M+/year in funding into startups and organizing hybrid events with ~2,000 registrants.
• Supported the world's largest, most active angel investor community — $1B+ Angel investments into 2,400+ companies (per Pitchbook and the HALO Report).
• Keiretsu Capital (the exclusive fund partner): ~$50M AUM.
• NW Angel Fund: new venture of the McDonalds family, starting with a $10M fund.
• Led teams in event operations → 900+ attendees.
• Analyzed and facilitated 100+ startup pitches.
• Learned and facilitated due diligence.
• Improved membership sales funnel through measurement; ran inbound and outbound marketing.
• Built websites (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace) — Keiretsu Family Office, KSN, and NW Angel.

• Top 200 of 27,000 applicants — top 1% — invited for interview and down-selected for CEO consideration.

• Consistently led the nation in sales and broke sales records.
• Top leader within the organization — earned an MVP award.
• Recruited, hired, managed, and coached a team of 5–30 members, consistently expanding and rebuilding teams.
• Oversaw strategic and back-end operations: customer segmentation, marketing strategy, payroll, taxes, inventory, and territory development.

• Part of founding a specialty team within the warehouse — entrepreneurial-spirited associates solving problems dynamically.
• Everything from sorting packages to fixing machines; constant observation and alertness for problems.

• Face-paced customer service for elderly residents — greeting, taking orders, delivering meals, resolving issues professionally.
• Learned and strictly maintained COVID precautions to ensure resident safety.

• Worked events with the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders, KJ Wright's Wright Way Foundation, the Jacob Green Foundation, Climate Pledge Arena, the Champions of Change Foundation, and an Oscar-winning singer, among others.
• Started by improvising a fix for a 1,200-lb stage set up in the wrong place using kids' toys with wheels — invited to the Gala as a guest, then chose to work the room instead.

• Jets, supercars, and connecting high-level humans — before the freelance role solidified.

• Construction-oriented mission trips — building and maintaining buildings on-site, working with children to facilitate connection.

• 1 of 14 people selected from Andrew Yeung's audience.
• Organized volunteers, built relationships with venue staff, solved setup problems, trained a volunteer on security protocol.
• Recognized by Andrew and the event planner for agency and ability.

100 interviews with 125 New Yorkers in 32 days. 180 miles walked (Manhattan × 13), all 5 boroughs, 20 parks, ages 11–86, 61 women / 64 men, 29 hours 37 minutes of footage, ~5 people/day.

1.2 posts/day for 150 days straight. 161,223 impressions (up 6,601%), 63,649 members reached, 2,956 engagements (up 5,275%), 1,187 followers (up 113%). Brought audience along as I shared stories from exploring in public.

An experiment to learn the process of creating quality content and see what performs. 30k views, 120 posts, 60 days.

Startups write updates to those who've invested in them. I write updates to those who've invested in me.

Automation that finds the most-viewed YouTube videos and sorts by topic, duration (shorts / medium / longform), recency, and language.

An early experiment in capturing life for the long run.

Helped run a 37-year-old club called Friendship Day. Voted best to bring home to parents AND most likely to win The Bachelor. Ran a 5-minute mile. Got the principal in trouble. Moved GPA from 2.8 to 4.0.

Cold-emailed strangers and made friends with them. Now I have friendtors.