Take Flight is the culmination of HOW I reinvented my life and business starting in 2008 and built a 37M brokerage business by 2013 during the height of one of the worst economic times our country has ever encountered. Since 2013, I have had the privilege to observe top producers within and outside our firm in Chicago and across the country. The challenges are same. The solutions are the same. During the past decade, I’ve observed, tweaked, editorialized, tested, and documented the ideas that I believe could help brokers build a life and a business that work in tandem. It is through my own self-development that I created Take Flight, with the purpose of sharing my findings in a way that is boiled down to the absolute basics of how to best build a successful real estate brokerage business. The core of this class is that “success” is defined by you, not anyone else.

As Executive Vice President and City Designated Managing Broker, Jim Miller occupies a key leadership position at Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty. In this role, Jim oversees sales across the firm’s 2 largest offices - Lincoln Park and Gold Coast as well as other key functions including agent education and development. He also works closely alongside CEO Chris Feurer and the firm’s executive team providing strategic direction for the company.

Jim joined Jameson in 2008 as an agent and by 2012 was one of the firm’s top producers. In 2013, he was introduced as Managing Broker of the Lincoln Park office and in 2016, Jim added the title of Executive Vice President for his role as a strategic partner to the ownership team. In February of 2018, he added the management of the sales team at the firm’s flagship office located in the Gold Coast. Combined, the 2 offices complete over $1.8 billion in real estate transactions annually while consistently achieving the status of #1 for average sales price, #1 for average individual producing agent and #1 for highest market share of luxury transactions over $2,000,000. During Jim’s tenure as Designated Managing Broker, the city offices’ production has grown 5x while the agent count has remained virtually the same . More importantly, Jim has recruited, coached and developed some of the top agents in the Chicago market and changed the business trajectory for countless others. These results have provided Jim with the reputation as a high performance coach as much as he is seen as a seasoned managing broker and leader.

His success at developing agents with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty has drawn the attention of luxury agents within Sotheby’s International Realty and other national brokerages. His podcast “Ask Jim Miller” has a strong following and has positioned him as a highly sought after high performance coach. As a result, he is hired to develop individual agents and small teams that consistently sell over $2 billion in homes across the top luxury markets within the United States and Canada.