James Lawrence

President/Founder

Power Automedia

CEO of Digital Media company in the Automotive Aftermarket.

Chief Executive Officer

Happy Companies

In the new era of work, building effective teams is more important than ever to organizational performance. Happy enhances organizational culture, communication and manager effectiveness at scale – making your people your competitive advantage. Happy is a coaching platform that uses behavioral science & AI to build a user manual for your entire team in less than 10 minutes.

CEO & Cofounder

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

As SEMA's Chairman of the board, I worked with the SEMA Board of Directors, provide leadership to the SEMA's CEO and SEMA Executive Management team, and helped lead the SEMA Association toward the future. SEMA is the #1 automotive aftermarket association in the world representing more than $50B of revenue.

SEMA Chairman of the Board

SpeedVideo

CEO of subscription-based Live Streaming Motorsports Network. Sold to FloSports in 2021.

Select Council Leadership, FLN/Young Executives Network (YEN) at SEMA. Responsible for helping lead the Young Executive Network/FLN within SEMA along with the select council and Chairman.

Select Council Leadership, SEMA Future Leader Network

ProMedia Publishing LLC

Founder of event production/media business. Also I was responsible for charting the strategic direction for the company, new business development, acquisitions, financial operations, marketing including digital, print, radio, TV; and also oversaw media/publishing/content.

MotorTrend Group

As an editor for the Ford Media Group within Petersen Publishing (now TEN/Discovery/Motor Trend). I planned, coordinated, and developed a wide array of content.

Editor

I believe in PEOPLE.. and believe a great TEAM is the most important competitive advantage.

🌟 I'm focused on reinventing the future of work and how technology and people can work together to improve organizational culture. 🌟

I'm currently the Cofounder of Happy, a coaching platform that enhances organizational culture, communication and manager effectiveness at scale – making people a true competitive advantage. Happy uses behavioral science & AI to build a user manual for your entire team in less than 10 minutes.

💌 Want to chat? Send me a message or reach out to me at james@happycompanies.com

My journey to leadership wasn't straightforward. Early in my career, I learned the hard way that authority doesn't come from a title; it comes from genuinely understanding and connecting with your team. 

I've got an interesting background:
-launched four startups
-former CEO of Power Automedia
-former Chairman of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturing Association
-Earned two national championships in auto racing
-Earned two youth football championships as a head coach

I'm married to my amazing wife Melissa, and father to three kids–Bradley, Jordan and Taylor. 

When I'm not leading our team at Happy or spending time with my family, you'll find me:

-coaching youth football
-driving a race car faster than 200 mph
-diving into one of my favorite books, which range from "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz to "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey.

I love public speaking on topics like innovation, leadership, organizational culture, and technology. 

I believe the cornerstone of every successful organization is its people. 

My mission is to unlock the power of human connection and happiness at work, using disruptive technology and innovative thinking. I love the process of creating things and collaborating with entrepreneurs, executives, and visionaries to solve real problems and improve the quality of work relationships.

Jessica Weiss

As a speaker, Jessica speaks about happiness at work and how to love your work and your career. She brings out the potential in everybody, leaving her audiences inspired, energized, thinking differently about the world and equipped with tangible skills that they can use at work and in life.

In her career as an entrepreneur and innovation and strategy consultant, Jessica has learned many important things about building a successful business and a creative culture. At the heart of all of her success has been seeing the importance of creativity: in your life, your career, and your organization. Most importantly creativity is a skill - we all have it, we all need it and we can all grow it!

Jessica brings her expertise to audiences teaching people how to capture unlikely connections, and inspires fresh thinking and disruptive ideas. Everyone will learn practical skills on how to actually come up with new ideas, how to embody the behaviors that foster creativity, and the practical frameworks to implement those ideas that can be applied immediately.

As an innovation and strategy consultant, Jessica works with clients across a broad range of industries to create more innovative cultures through keynote speaking, training, leadership work, and coaching.  Her work combines strategy, organizational design, leadership, employee engagement and culture with branding and marketing to create innovative organizations and growth for brands.

For more information: www.jessicaweiss.com

President

Chief

Chief is a private network designed specifically for women leaders - rising VP through CEO- to strengthen their experience in the C-suite, cross pollinate across industries, and effect change from the top down.

Executive Coach and Core Guide

?What If! Innovation

Jessica designed and delivered innovation training programs and keynote speeches to both executives and innovation project teams.  Jessica coached participants to diagnose current situation, instill discipline of innovation, build innovation pipeline and catalyze business innovations.

Innovation Strategy Consultant

Happiness Expert | Keynote Speaker | TEDx Speaker | Executive Coach |

Jessica Weiss is an author, keynote speaker and executive coach who teaches people and businesses how to find more happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction at work. With 15 years of experience working with global brands like Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express, Jessica is a trusted source for those who are searching for tangible, research-based strategies to create happier workers.

Jessica is a happiness expert who uses her humor and "tell-it-like-it-is" style to teach companies across the country why work can and should be a source of happiness, and how to create spaces where people love to work.

Order my book here: https://a.co/d/2uhO8ZV
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We love to talk all things happiness and happiness at work!

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