We build outcomes through persuasive language, structure, and stage-level execution.
See What We DoJust Influence is the parent organization behind our live event, entertainment, and consulting work. Every brand in the portfolio exists because influence — real influence, the kind that moves people to decide, act, and commit — is both a science and a craft.
The science is in the structure: language, sequencing, timing, and delivery. The craft is in the execution: reading a room, adjusting in real time, and closing the gap between a great plan and a great outcome.
Different rooms. Different audiences. One discipline applied with precision every time.
Influence isn't a follower count. It's what happens in the moment a person decides to trust you, give to you, follow you, or move. Whether you're leading a company, raising money for a cause, commanding a room of strangers, or navigating a high-stakes conversation—outcomes come from rapport, framing, timing, and delivery. When those elements are structured and executed with precision, people move. When they're not, nothing does.
Connection creates permission. Without it, even the best argument lands on a closed door. Rapport isn't small talk — it's the fastest path to trust, and trust is the precondition for everything else.
Words don't just describe, they direct. The right language at the right moment shapes attention, frames meaning, and moves emotion.
Structure creates the conditions. Talent fills them with life. Real performance happens when the engineered framework disappears and what the room experiences is simply someone who knows exactly what they're doing.
Stage-level execution turns ideas into action. The gap between a good plan and a great outcome lives in the room, in real time, under pressure. That's where this work lives.
The right message at the wrong moment lands on deaf ears. Knowing when to speak, when to pause, and when to close is as important as what you say.
Influence is responsibility. Understanding how people decide — and being able to move them — is a significant capability. We use it to create outcomes people are glad they said yes to.
Practical applications of influence across a wide range of real-world outcomes. These are some of the areas we work in — the discipline reaches further than any list can capture.
Command of any room from the first moment to the last. Keynote, emcee, and full event management — structure, timing, energy, and execution built to move an audience and hold them there.
Clean, high-energy comedy shows for corporate events, grad nights, post-prom, fairs, festivals, and private engagements. We perform, we produce, and we book a wide variety of talent — comedy, improv, and specialty acts — for audiences of every size and every room.
End-to-end charitable event consulting and live fundraising performance. From event design and scripting to donor momentum and live auction execution — engineered to raise more and make the room remember the night.
Mindfulness, self-hypnosis, and performance improvement seminars delivered at scale. Designed for healthcare organizations, corporations, and live audiences ready to make real changes — not just hear about them.
Persuasion frameworks, NLP, and practical language skills built for real-world application. Delivered as keynotes, workshops, and training programs — for the individual who wants to perform better and the organization that needs its people to.
Your content, your social presence, your website — these are rooms full of strangers you need to move. We help solopreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofits engineer that presence, master AI tools, and build the kind of content that actually does something.
The parent organization and consulting arm. Speaking engagements, training programs, and advisory work — built on three decades of live performance and real-world influence systems.
Comedy shows, corporate entertainment, wellness seminars, and performance training. Clean, high-energy programming for every audience — from intimate private events to crowds of thousands.
Visit SiteFull-service fundraising performance and charitable event consulting. Scripting, donor momentum, and live auction execution — built to raise more and make the room remember the night.
Visit SiteEvery room is a dance. Somebody has to lead.
Justin James learned that early — through performance, choreography, and the performing arts — developing an understanding of stagecraft, rhythm, and audience connection that no classroom produces.
It deepened when Justin spent over a decade as Senior Executive Vice President for one of the nation's leading outplacement and HR consulting firms — working with Fortune 500 companies across virtually every major industry. Boeing. Microsoft. IBM. HP. Dell. Arthur Andersen. The Enron restructuring. From nuclear scientists to senior political appointees, Justin worked with thousands of executives navigating the most difficult professional transitions imaginable — and learned firsthand how people decide, move, and change under real pressure.
Founded in 1994, The Hypnosis Company began in the counseling and consulting world before quickly morphing into education and the performance arts. Justin taught hypnosis at the college level, performed coast to coast, and built a three-decade track record across Fortune 500 companies, universities, fairs, festivals, and schools.
Just Influence grew from the same discipline — an outgrowth of thirty years of professional consulting and live performance. When clients began asking for help with fundraising events, the pattern was clear: great structure, precise timing, and a skilled performer on stage could transform what an organization was able to raise. That insight became ComedyAuctioneer.com — and led to auctioning off the Ambassador of Spain in front of the State Department, raising funds with Starbucks at the Empire State Building, performing for the U.S. Navy League in Times Square, and standing on the stage at Minute Maid Park raising over two million dollars in a single night.
The philosophy behind Just Influence is the same one that has always driven the work. Lead the room. Tell the story. Move people forward.
"We exceeded our stretch goal by over 40% and raised the most dollars in the 10-year history of our fundraising event."— M.T., Executive Director
"Our employees are still talking and laughing about the event. To say we were impressed is an understatement — it was definitely money well spent."— K.R., Corporate Events
"From the first moments of greeting the crowd, it was obvious he commanded the room. His clarity in delivery, his timing, his ability to read the energy — everything was structured and precise."— D.L., Gala Chair
"He brought a lot of energy to the crowd and was very fluid at keeping the pace up and people engaged. It was a huge success."— J.M., Event Director
"He was engaging, dynamic, and read the room exceptionally well — never coming across as pushy, which can be a concern at fundraising events."— S.B., Development Director
"Justin was extremely professional through every step of the process. Our plans changed several times and he rolled with the punches seamlessly."— A.C., Program Manager
Whether you're planning an event, exploring a speaking engagement, or looking to understand what the right performer can do for your goals — the conversation starts here.
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