JeffThinksDifferently
JeffThinksDifferently is a movement and a professional advisory brand built for individuals who want a clearer, more human, and mentally supportive way to navigate major decisions in business, franchising, and real estate.
This brand was created by people who know what it feels like to think differently — and who turned that lived experience into a strategic advantage.
We combine global business expertise with mental-health-informed decision support, helping people move forward with clarity, stability, and confidence they can trust.
We exist for entrepreneurs, investors, families, and decision-makers who want guidance from professionals who understand not just the deal — but how they think.
Our Purpose
To provide smarter, confidential, safer, and more personal decision support for people navigating high-stakes opportunities — where the financial, mental, lifestyle, and emotional impact all matter.
We believe great decisions come from:
- Clear thinking
- Real understanding
- Honest expectations
- Knowing how people process pressure
- Having the right support at the right time
This brand stands for:
- Human understanding — not high-pressure sales
- Celebrating that different is beautiful
- Mental-health-aware communication
- Clarity over confusion
- Stability over overwhelm
- Decision support built around the individual
- Real strategy, real honesty
Traditional advisors often focus on transactions.
We focus on the person behind the decision.
Why This Brand Was Created
The foundation of this company comes from lived experience — navigating life undiagnosed, masking, adapting, and learning how to fit into a world not designed for minds that work differently.
A late autism diagnosis brought clarity:
Not only in understanding how one mind works —
but in recognizing how others think, communicate, and respond under pressure.
That awareness became a strength.
It made it possible to support people in ways traditional advisory models never could — especially those who feel overloaded, misunderstood, or mentally drained when facing big decisions.
Over time, that perspective merged with decades of business expertise and global deal experience to form a new approach:
This isn’t therapy.
This isn’t sales.
This is high-level decision support rooted in clarity, lived experience, and honest guidance.
About The Founder — Jeff Thompson
Jeff Thompson has spent more than twenty years helping clients buy and sell over 300 businesses across 45+ states and 30+ countries — but clarity didn’t come from the deals alone.
It came the moment he understood why he sees the world differently.
Diagnosed autistic as an adult, Jeff realized something powerful:
People don’t struggle because they’re incapable.
They struggle because their thinking style, stress response, and communication needs aren’t understood.
And when someone finally understands how your mind works —
you make better decisions with less fear, less pressure, and fewer costly mistakes.
Jeff’s lived experience now fuels how he listens, communicates, and advises — helping clients process opportunities at their pace, in their language, and with respect for their mental bandwidth.
His journey led him to:
- Listen differently
- Support differently
- Communicate with clarity
- Guide through the emotional and strategic sides of decision-making
- Build a nationwide team of likeminded professionals
Because buying a business, selling one, choosing a franchise, or making a real estate investment isn’t only financial — it’s mental, emotional, identity-shifting, and life-changing.
Experience & Background
- Guided 300+ business transactions
- Worked in 45+ U.S. states & 30+ countries
- Built & operated companies in multiple industries
- Led national & international sales teams
- Launched global brands
- Advised on Real Estate transactions in 45 states
- Traveled to over 50 countries
- Mentored 100+ entrepreneurs
- Advocated for neurodivergent professionals
- Supported families and adults navigating mental health
- Founded and operated a clinic serving children with autism
- Built a platform for Mental Health Advocacy.
- Build and developed residential and commercial real estate properties
- Sponsored and Built multiple neighborhoods for Habitat for Humanity
This combination of global insight, neurodivergent lived experience, and mental-health awareness is what makes JeffThinksDifferently different.
It allows us to provide:
- Strategic intelligence
- Pattern recognition
- Pressure awareness
- Emotional clarity
- Understanding of diverse thinking styles
- Perspective beyond the transaction
People often choose this brand because they want to work with someone who thinks the way they do — or someone who finally understands how they think.
🎯 MISSION — Advocacy + Advisory
Our mission is to bring neurodiversity-informed decision support into industries that historically focus on transactions, not people.
We believe that:
Thinking differently isn’t the challenge —
making decisions without support is.
We help people move forward with confidence, self-awareness, and strategies that protect not just the outcome — but their mind, their family, and their future.
Our Team
JeffThinksDifferently is supported by a national and international network of trusted professionals:
Every partner shares the same standards:
- People-first mindset
- Confidential support
- High integrity
- Clear communication
- No-pressure guidance
- Mental-health-aware support
Here, you are not just working with one advisor —
they gain access to a network built for clarity, stability, and better decisions.