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Author of Where Are We Going So Fast?

Learn more about my newest project ─ "How Does Disney Do That?™" ─ with Theron Skees, veteran Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Executive

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Author of Where Are We Going So Fast?

Learn more about my newest project ─ "How Does Disney Do That?™" ─ with Theron Skees, veteran Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Executive

"Where are we going so fast?" Blog

Created originally for the Chicago Tribune Media Group, my blog focuses on moments that connect us to ourselves and each other.

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Writing

Books

Book Contributor

Book Contributor

Author of Where Are We Going So Fast?: Finding the Sacred In Everyday Moments.

Book Contributor

Book Contributor

Book Contributor

James Warda Chicken Soup for the Soul, Expectant Mother's, Father's, Inspiration, Love

Columnist/writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, including contributing to the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Expectant Mother's Soul , Chicken Soup for the Father's Soul, along with The Pocket Parent

Forewords

Book Contributor

Coincidental Conversations™

Foreword writer for Turn Enemies into Allies: The Art of Peace in the Workplace and The Sequoia Seed.

Coincidental Conversations™

Communications and Marketing

Coincidental Conversations™

Interview series about serendipity and the power of coincidence as a portal. The series includes a conversation with Ted Neeley, who played Jesus in the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Columnist and Blogger

Communications and Marketing

Communications and Marketing

Background includes being a regular contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Pioneer Press, and also write Where are we going so fast? blog for the Chicago Tribune Media Group.

Communications and Marketing

Communications and Marketing

Communications and Marketing

 Gold Quill Award-Winning Communications and Marketing Executive with global experience across Fortune 100 companies, who has counseled leaders, directed complex cross-functional initiatives, developed and motivated teams, spearheaded innovative marketing programs, managed PR, and led large-scale change projects.  

Magazine and Web

Magazine and Web

Magazine and Web

Marketing James Warda Community Coincidence

 Contributor/writer for websites, including American Marketing Association Chicago and the Institute of Internal Communications, and magazines , including The Works. 

Job Search

Magazine and Web

Magazine and Web

Continues to work to help job seekers, including as a writer through 48 Lessons Learned in Job Search: How to Find a Job (and Yourself) Along the Way guide and as a speaker, through the 9-1/2 Myths of the Modern Job Search workshop.

Disney

Magazine and Web

Disney

James Warda, Walt Disney, One Man's Dream, Walt Disney World

Have written about Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company, including in a One Man's Dream cover story for Celebrations magazine, for the Chicago Tribune Media Group, and in Disney magazine, WDW Magazine and on the Disney4Dads website. 

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Speaking

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

As a speaker, presented to over 60 organizations, ranging from the Advanced Learning Institute to healthcare systems, universities and schools, and religious organizations. In addition, I offer workshops for leaders, teachers, parents and more.

Podcasts and Radio Spots

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

Guested on podcasts, including Teaching in the Arts  and The Art of Communication. Also hosted a daily "Moments" radio segment for WXLC 102.3 FM and appear on WRLR 98.3 FM in the Chicago/Milwaukee market.  

Webinars on Communications

Keynotes, Conferences and Workshops

Webinars on Communications

Guested on webinars, including "Communicating Bad News" for Groupe.io and "Putting Humanity Back into the Job Search" for Project Help You Grow.  

Webinars for Job Seekers

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

Webinars on Communications

Guested on webinars, including "How Creative Professionals Can Use the Strengths They Already Have to Get that Next Role"

Adjunct Professor

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

Adjunct professor for the School of Communications and Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago and sit on their Communications Advisory Board, and have been a guest speaker for DePaul University of Chicago.

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

"Chicken Soup for the Soul" Speaker

Background as Chicken Soup for the Soul "Souperspeakers" member, to include speaking to leadership in the U.S. Navy.

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background

Solo Artist

Former Chicago frontman for Mickey Finn, which played with Bob Marley's Wailer's, and then fronted The Groove. Now a solo artist bringing that Chicago sound to Florida, playing funk, rock and blues covers, often in ways you haven't heard them before, along with strong radio-played originals.

Studio music

"Do you remember?"

"Do you remember?"

"Do you remember?"

Being forced inside during the pandemic forced me inside myself more -- and I remembered my voice.

Wrote Do you remember?  during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's about realizing that using our voice in the future sometimes means going back through our past.

"Home Again"

"Do you remember?"

"Do you remember?"

Remembering who we are, what we want, and that we are always home.

Wrote Home Again in 2006 while with former band, Mickey Finn, that performs on this recording.  One of the highlights for the band was opening for Bob Marley's Wailers in 1989 at the Riviera Theater in Chicago.

"Dear America,"

"Do you remember?"

"Dear America,"

Wrote this song as a letter to our country as an old friend who is hurting. As a reminder of what we can be.

VideoS

Big Ed's, Gurnee, IL

 A hot time on a very cold night as a Polar Vortex was just hitting Chicago.

Stone Wall Pub, Cedarburg, WI

Playing at the Stone Wall Pub always brings out the stone-cold-coolest people.

Every band needs a montage

When the night is right, you just have to keep on playing.

Cancer Fundraiser at Donges Bay Clubhouse, Donges, WI

When you're playing for a good cause, it just makes everything feel that much more important.

Shady Akers BBQ, Arkdale, WI

Want a great combination? Amazing BBQ and the blues....

Funky Rehearsal

You have to practice like you play. End of story.

Testimonials

James Warda Testimonials

Richard N. Bolles, "What Color is your Parachute?"

"James Warda is very good at writing about human moments...”  

Jack Canfield, Co-Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul series

“James allows us to watch through his eyes as he struggles with the human condition. Then, by watching him find and lose and find his way again, we come to understand so much more about our own search.”  

Chicago Tribune

“Do you feel like you’re sprinting through life? If so, perhaps James Warda's book, Where Are We Going So Fast?, can help you step off the track for a while.”  

Gregg Levoy, Author, "Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life"

“James helps us remember life’s preciousness and brevity.”  

Michael Josephson, President, Josephson Institute of Ethics and the Character Counts Coalition

“James Warda is a father of three with the soul of a poet.”  

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