Several kinds of work · one curious human

You may know me
from one room.

I’m James Todd. I help people recognize what they bring, see possibilities they’ve overlooked, and make unexpected connections between the two.

That work takes different forms: leadership, coaching, real estate, and building things worth bringing into the world. This is the hallway between those rooms.

See where I show up Meet the human

Ways I show up

Different doors.
A familiar instinct.

I notice overlooked capacity, unrealized potential, and people or ideas that ought to meet. I help turn those connections into a next move that matters.

A public laboratory

Expeppermint

Hopeful ideas made real enough for reality to answer—then given room to surprise us.

Enter the laboratory

Real estate

James Todd at Keller Williams

Helping people make consequential property decisions with clarity, context, and a human in the loop.

Visit the real-estate site

Goals · coaching · facilitation

Goals Engine

See what matters, recognize what you bring, and build a plan you can use. Personal coaching with the licensed Best Year Yet process.

Book a 3-hour launch session

Learn about Best Year Yet (affiliate link)

Names with possibility

Premium domains

A long-running practice of spotting names that can make an unfinished idea feel suddenly possible. Selected premium inventory lives on BrandBucket.

See my BrandBucket domains

Writing

Everyday Superheroes

A book made in 24 hours in 2013. An ambitious collaboration taken from conversation to covers.

Find it on Amazon

Fractional leadership

Fraxonal

Experienced leadership for businesses that need senior capability before a full-time executive makes sense. An agency in development.

Coming soon

Experiment. Expeppermint. To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to.

What-ifs deserve somewhere to become real.

Expeppermint is a growing collection of curious questions made tangible, shared in public, and left open to surprise. Some begin as a practice. Some become a site, a story, a tool, or a place.

Give the idea shape. Let it breathe. Watch where it goes.

Meet the expeppermints

expeppermintA public laboratory for hopeful ideas

The names I hold

A drawer full of possibility

These names are not the whole story. They are a glimpse of how my mind works: notice an opening, give it language, and keep it alive long enough to learn what it wants to become.

Interested in a name? Ask about availability; some are part of projects I’m developing.

James Todd laughing, photographed by Jeremy Cowart — Joy first. Polish comes second. Portrait by Jeremy Cowart.

Meet James

Curious on purpose.
Serious about people.
Suspicious of tidy narratives.

I’m a father, friend, learner, yoga practitioner, real-estate professional, domain collector, systems-builder, and enthusiastic host of conversations that get unexpectedly real.

I like useful structure, but only when it serves a life instead of flattening one. I believe precision and play belong in the same room. I’m interested in what people are becoming, including me.

My work rarely stays in one lane. If something here makes you curious, let’s find out where it leads.

An open invitation

Know me from one room?
Invite me into another.

If something here changed your sense of where I might be useful, I’d love to hear what you’re considering.

james [at] jamestodd.net to start a conversation