Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading global futurism, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue chip client list from dozens of industries. His speaking engagements range from small Board-level sessions with 12 people to high level CEO leadership meetings to 5,000 person conference keynotes.

WHO IS JIM?

More than 2 million people have shared his insight with his keynotes on stage, taking in his ability to inspire audiences through a combination of deep insight, on-stage humor and motivational guidance, all grounded in deep observations on future trends.
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The author of several books including “The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast, Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast;” and “What I Learned from Frogs in Texas,” Jim has been featured in BusinessWeek as one of four leading sources for insight into future trends and innovation, and was a featured expert on the CNBC Series, “The Business of Innovation.” His insight has been extensively covered in the media, including ABC News, INC, Fast Company, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, CAPITAL Magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates) CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT.

For close to 20 years, Jim has been studying what makes companies relentlessly creative and how they ride critical fast-paced trends in order to achieve dramatic market success.

He provides guidance that is timely and unique: how to realign business strategy for fast-paced economic trends and new business realities; a realistic outline of the emerging trends, threats and opportunities that will impact your organization; how to become a more forward thinking organization that can anticipate and manage change, rather than reacting to it; and guidance on how to do things differently in a world that demands constant, relentless innovation.

WHAT JIM SPEAKS ABOUT

Jim does very customized work in virtually every type of industry. You can run with some of the generic topics below, or go for a specific keynote tailored to your industry or topics of interest.

THINK BIG, START SMALL, SCALE FAST

INNOVATING IN THE AGE OF ACCELERATION

Those very things which might worked for us in the past might be the very anchors that could now hold us back as the future rushes at us with ever increasing speed. In the era of Uber, Tesla and Amazon, leaders must have the insight into unique opportunities for innovation and change. Futurist Jim Carroll provides a customized overview of the key trends impacting your organization, and invaluable leadership lessons that provide a clear path for going forward.

We live in a time of massive challenge, and yet one of massive opportunity, with every industry and organization impacted by business model disruption, the emergence of new competitors, the impact of technology, the collapse of product lifecycle, political volatility and ever-more challenging customers.

WHAT DO WORLD CLASS INNOVATORS DO THAT OTHERS DON’T?

Business model disruption. The rapid emergence of new competitors. The challenging impact of social media. Rapid prototyping and the global idea machine. The digitization of everything and the the impact of hyper connectivity. Rapid technological change. For over two decades, Jim Carroll has been assisting organizations and high-caliber leaders position themselves for a future in which the velocity of change is the new normal, acceleration is the reality, agility is the core, and adaptation is the reality.

What is that world class innovators do that others don’t do? That’s one of the key themes that Jim Carroll continually explores with organizations around the world.

THE LESSONS OF POWERFUL OPTIMISM

RETHINKING THE FUTURE RIGHT NOW

But with economic, political, career and business model volatility all around us, it’s all too easy to fall prey to a swirl of negative thinking — with the result that you lose sight of the fascinating opportunities from what comes next. It’s time to turn your mind to the future once again, restore a sense of hope and optimism, and link yourself to the fast paced trends which energize your outlook on opportunity! In this keynote, Jim takes you on a voyage to the future, and promises to leave you with a boundless sense of optimism and passion for what comes next!

We have seen more change in the last 5 years than we have seen in the last 100 – and yet there is so much more to come.

THE MASTERS IN BUSINESS IMAGINATION

MOTIVATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR THE ERA OF FAST

Once you ‘graduate’ from his MBI class, you’ll possess the skills common to this critical degree of the 21st century economy, by linking your initiatives to a carefully calibrated curriculum of change-oriented thinking. Fire up your enthusiasm, energy and innovation spirit with a unique motivational keynote by futurist Jim Carroll, as he inspires your team to align themselves to the only degree they will need for the future – The Masters in Business Imagination!

In an era of dramatic and relentless change, people and organizations are scrambling to align themselves for a new, topsy-turvy world. Jim Carroll comes to the rescue with his keynote, The Masters in Business Imagination, which will inspire your team to adopt relentless creativity and innovation as core virtues.

Stunning. We brought Jim in to challenge our top dealers as to how to think about the fat paced trends impacting our world. We then booked him again to come in and speak to our entire leadership team. It’s all changing fast — and we needed the message that eh brought to us!

Volvo Trucks

We needed someone who could give our audience some key insight into future trends around energy. You certainly delivered on that, covering a wide range of issues. And the humour in the delivery too – outstanding! It’s pretty evident that you did a lot of work on this! Thank you!

Nobel Energy

Jim really walks his talk! His commitment to preparatory research for our presentation was most impressive. Jim’s material is powerfully relevant, practical and actionable. He engages the audience with humor, sharing of personal experiences and unfailing courtesy and respect for his audience.

Rogers Communications Inc.

JIM IN ACTION

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