Jim Carroll

Leading Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert

Some of the world’s leading organizations turn to Jim Carroll for insight into future trends and innovation.

In his keynotes, workshops and leadership meetings, Jim provides specific, concrete guidance on the key management and innovation strategies that should be pursued by the client to ensure that their activities are closely aligned with significant future trends.

With his strategic insight and inspirational message, Jim wakes people up to the trends that will affect them, and challenges them to cope with a world that continues to witness constant, dramatic change.

He spends a tremendous amount of time building very customized keynotes — and that’s why he has built such an effective reputation for his insight int specific future trends and innovation issues related to your company, industry or association.

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With a client list that includes the Walt Disney Company, the PGA of America, NASA, and Johnson & Johnson, Jim’s unique insight is a much sought after commodity!

Essentially, Jim assists in organizations in dealing with the future, trends and innovation through three distinct types of events:

as the opening or closing keynote speaker for the annual meetings/conferences of national or international associations
keynotes or workshops for private corporate leadership events, ranging from small groups of 15 to several hundred executives, often sponsored by the CEO, for a vast range of global Fortune 1000 companies
keynotes or panel discussions on customer oriented meetings or promotional events

Jim provides:

unique, detailed, customized insight into workplace, business, economic, current events, social and cultural trends, as well as into demographic, lifestyle and technology issues, based on highly original research
insight as to how organizations can become more competitive, innovative and adaptable
a very dynamic and motivational presentation that involves his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations.

Jim builds his presentation according to your specific industry challenges, including:

how to realign business strategy for fast-paced economic trends and new business realities and business model change
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
how staff can make the transition from a tactical role to a strategic role
guidance on how to do things differently in a world that demands constant, relentless innovation.

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Jim Carroll spends a tremendous amount of time building very customized keynotes — and that’s why he has built such an effective reputation for his insight int specific future trends and innovation issues related to your company, industry or association.

The Internet of Things

Jim’s signature keynote

Jim Carroll has been talking on stage about the Internet of things since the late 1990’s, when he began using the phrase “hyper connectivity” to describe a world in which “every device that is a part of our daily lives is about to become plugged in.” Since then, he has delivered his insight on the topic to a wide variety of organizations: several global technology leaders with a keynote talk on the future of home automation; several of the world’s largest HVAC companies about what happens when a global, intelligent home and industrial energy infrastructure emerges through widespread connectivity; consumer, food and packaged goods conferences about the impact of intelligent packaging. He has been booked by many leading global health care organizations for keynotes that have focused on what happens when consumers start aligning their wellness strategies through their own personal healthcare infrastructure.

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast

We live in a time of massive challenge, and yet one of massive opportunity. We’re faced with deep and complex issues involving the environment, health care, water and food. At the same time, every industry is faced with upheaval and disruption. At the same time, every business, and every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors (think Uber), new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other challenge

The speed with which these changes occur are now being increasingly driven by he arrival of a younger, more entrepreneurial generation; a group that seems determined to change the world to reflect their ideas and concept of opportunity. They’ve grown up networked, wired, and are collaborative in ways that no previous generation seems to be.

And therein lies the challenge.

Most organizations are bound up in traditions, process, certain defined ways of doing things — rules — that have helped them succeed in the past. Over time, they have developed a corporate culture which might have worked at the slower paced world of the past — but now has them on the sick-bed, suffering from an organizational sclerosis that clogs up their ability to try to do anything new.

Customized Keynotes

This area continues to be Jim’s biggest growth market. He truly believe that clients today are looking for much more than a canned message; they want real insight, deep research, and a highly customized message. He’s certainly been delivering; here are a few of the unique topics he has taken on:

The Future of Steel

Physician Recruitment in the Era of Digital Intimacy

The Future of Risk in the Era of Big Infrastructure

The Future of Energy Infrastructure

Future of Health, Wellness and Fitness

Healthcare 2020

Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Self Driving Cars and Intelligent Highways

Leading Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert

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