CRAIG SAMPSON
Human-centered Designer, Office Founder of IDEO Chicago, and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University's Segal Design Institute

“James has a wonderful "whole brain" balance: his creative talent and optimism help him collaborate and conceive great new ideas, and his analytic mind and diligence enable him to sweat the details and get things done. His visual design work demonstrates both of these talents. I wouldn't hesitate to work with James again on any new project.”

JOHN COYLE
Olympic Silver Medalist, Design Thinking Expert, World-renown Public Speaker and Creator of The Art of Really Living

“James has an easygoing demeanor that sits over top of a workhorse of an operator and some significant intellectual and creative chops. Working with James – even under the duress of deadlines – was always professional and polished and the final production was slick and smooth and impactful.”

WES DOUGLAS
Co-founder & Former Creative Director at the Maddock Douglas Innovation Agency

"James possesses the rare skills to effortlessly blend creative vision, design direction, focused execution and coordination of talent with first-class technologies necessary to insure that everything goes according to plan. It is truly wonderful to see James work his magic. if attention to every touch point of your brand is important to you then James Chesterfield should be your ring leader."

THOMAS REILLY
Chief Product Officer at CompTIA

“James is a true renaissance man, highly technical, artistic, detail-oriented and knowledgeable in all areas of organizing and producing world-class events. He is equally comfortable running the board, designing in Photoshop, writing copy, and managing the overall project. He is a key reason that TEDxNaperville has become one of the most popular, inspiring, and high production value events in the Chicagoland area.”

ZAINAB ZEB KHAN
Artist, Human Rights Activist, President of the Muslim American Leadership Alliance & UNICEF's 2016 Humanitarian Award Winner

“James was a stellar producer for TEDxNaperville. His professionalism, vision, and solution oriented approach facilitated the process of solidifying my talk. He focuses on how to extend TED in fresh directions, and really is able to craft ideas into deliverables.”

ARTHUR ZARDS
Founder of Lab Z, XNet Information Systems & TEDxNaperville

“In my 20+ years of being a successful entrepreneur, James Chesterfield was one of my top employees. He has the ability to learn new skill sets quickly, can work completely unsupervised, and his ideas and opinions I value as much as our company’s senior leadership. He has also been extremely successful in our leadership team running TEDxNaperville. James is one of the few people that I can easily drop into an unknown problem knowing that he will find a solution, even if he is outside his element.”

MARINA DALDALIAN
Former Lead Clinical Researcher at Cerner Corporation

“Professionally, I have encountered few people with the breadth and depth of skills that James possesses. Notable among these is his combination of highly detailed technical expertise with interpersonal skills that welcome others to collaborate and create. It is a rare and coveted colleague that inspires through both their words and deeds. James models this through his professionalism and emotional intelligence, while providing actionable feedback to others and continually producing high quality work that sets the standard and elevates everyone around him.”

MARK LAPENNA
Space-based Communications Pioneer and CEO and President of Xenesis

“James jumped right in, and was able to deliver (on short notice) an effective and well fleshed out confidence deck, as well as the public portion. It does however, go far beyond that. James took time, to actually understand what it is "I do", and because of that intimate understanding, I was confident that my talk would be all I'd hoped for. His level of professionalism was top notch, and his knowledge base was second to none. I'm glad I had the opportunity to work with him…”

MAHIR SAYAR
Former English Teacher at Turko-British Association (Kocaeli, Turkey) and Cloud Infrastructure Manager at Apple

“James was and always has been extremely professional. punctual, imaginative and always positive. James was a delight to work with.”

SETH DARLING, PH.D.
Chief Science & Technology Officer, Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate at Argonne National Lab

"James provided original, clean, communicative visuals for my TEDxNaperville presentation. He was interactive, responsive, and uniformly helpful--a pleasure to work with."