Our Mission

The KeePressingOn Project serves individuals and teams who seek to generate growth and increased productivity through relationships that build trust, encourage excellence, and create an expectant, positive view of the future.

Our Vision

The KeePressingOn Project promotes leadership, excellence, respect, hope, and growth in a variety of arenas.

We enable companies, teams and individuals to:

• Grow in effectiveness toward their goals, personally and professionally
• Increase productivity
• Cultivate healthy leaders focused on building relationships
• Wisely solve problems
• Build strong hope based in truth

We help companies and teams:

• Develop and execute effective strategies
• Promote a strong group identity
• Build trust and satisfaction
• Pursue competitive excellence

We Serve individual professionals through executive coaching toward:

• Development
• Effective transitions
• Encountering overload
• Achieving peak performance

About James Coltharp

As a highly-effective, ICF Associate Certified Coach™ and builder/leader of teams, I leverage effective assessment tools in combination with my ability to motivate and inspire individuals, teams, and organizations to create greater consistency in attaining peak performance. My longstanding passion to create community impact & involvement is the genesis of the KeePressingOn Project, serving businesses, teams, and executives who seek to generate growth and increased productivity through relationships that build trust, encourage excellence, and create an expectant, positive view of the future.

My background as a federal government-affairs executive & strategist with a strong economics background and decades of experience significantly contributed to Comcast’s growth during the past 20+ years. I helped guide policy strategy development and gained key victories in regulatory proceedings, transactions & acquisitions during my tenure with the company.

I originally joined Comcast as a Senior Director of Public Policy. I later became Chief Policy Advisor, FCC, Regulatory Policy, & then continued as Executive Director. I represented Comcast before the FCC, Congress & other federal agencies concerning public policy issues involving cable TV, programming content, equipment technology & other matters, which helped Comcast earn and build early public credibility. I was also the key contact for trade associations representing Comcast in a wide range of industry matters/initiatives. I helped enhance Comcast’s early industry reputation in a range of policy issues with positive customer impacts and helped lead effective community outreach programs.

My commitment to bring about positive changes enabled the success of many Comcast community and customer initiatives. I also helped develop corporate initiatives to create digital technology opportunities, community and school partnerships and enhanced community engagement by Comcast employees.

Early in my career, I taught Economics courses on government & business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I served as an FCC Industry Economist for Broadcasting/Cable matters, and led a team implementing key provisions of the 1992 Cable Act. Additionally, I was the principal author of five Commission broadcasting/cable rule-makings and served as Chief Economist, Wireless. Later, I became Special Counsel to Commissioners Andrew Barrett & James Quello.

I founded Bright Lights Tutoring in 1993 for 4th – 6th grade students in Washington, DC. As a competitive ballroom dancer since 2007, I have achieved numerous national Dancesport pro-am competition major titles with my longtime partner.