I align you to the future by providing highly customized trends & industry research, delivered in a compelling motivational style.
Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends and innovation experts. Over the last 30 years, Carroll has shared his insight with more than 2 million people in attendance at his events.
He is recognised within the global speaking industry for his highly customised, heavily researched, industry-specific keynotes, leadership presentations and small, intimate senior leadership meetings.
Jim’s global client list is extensive and covers virtually every industry sector, including the World Bank, Volvo, NASA, the PGA of America, the Walt Disney Organization, the World Government Summit in Dubai, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the Wall Street Journal, National Australia Bank, WorldSkills, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, DuPont, The GAP, the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Godiva, SAP, Pfizer, Mercedes Benz, and hundreds more.
With a front-row seat to the high-velocity change that is occurring as disruption comes to take hold of every industry and every organisation, he helps to transform growth-oriented organisations into high-velocity innovation heroes! Countless global organisations have engaged Jim for his unique insight and proven track record in providing a customised leadership program that will let you see disruptive trends, focus on opportunity, align to disruption, unlock creativity, achieve agility and enhance your speed, collaborate more and deliver on growth opportunities!
Jim provides high-energy keynotes for audiences of 50 to 5,000, as well as intimate, customised strategic planning sessions for CEO/CxO, board, and senior management meetings. He has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of organisations and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others.
Jim is known for his ability to take on unique, highly customised topics for senior leadership teams that align to a particular strategic goal or topic area, including t he future of the space industry for NASA – twice; the future of pharma and healthcare for Pfizer in Paris – 6 months before Covid, accelerating innovation in the golf industry for the PGA of America, the future of manufacturing in 3rd world countries for the World Bank, and innovation and creativity in a world of upside down trends for the Walt Disney Corporation. He has developed a well-honed reputation within the global speaking industry for being the go-to guy for virtually any type of specialised, unique trends or innovation topic.
Jim’s insight has been covered in countless global publications, including the UK Telegraph, Dubai’s Capital Magazine, South Africa’s The Star, the BBC, Reuters and AP News.
BusinessWeek named Jim Carroll as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity, and he was also a featured expert on the prime-time CNBC series, The Business of Innovation.
In addition, he is an author, with numerous books, including: Now What: Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future; Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; Surviving the Information Age; The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast; Ready, Set, Done; and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.
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Unlocking Tomorrow: How to Get To Your Future, Faster.
Futurist Jim Carroll is on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.Unlocking Tomorrow: How to Get To Your Future, Faster.
He does this by helping you to accelerate your innovation efforts and deliver growth through his 10 Rules for Aligning to Your Faster Future, Faster.
These 10 Rules, derived from providing senior leadership guidance on future trends to over 2,000 organizations and 2 million people worldwide, will provide you the insight you need to align to an era of acceleration.
Imagine if you could accelerate your way into the future, by clearly aligning future trends, your strategic thinking, and your internal engine of creativity. Countless global organizations have engaged Jim Carroll for his unique insight and proven track record in providing a customized leadership program that will let you:
- SEE DISRUPTIVE TRENDS: you’ll better understand the trends that will impact you in the near and longer-term
- FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITY: you will achieve clarity on the trends that matter
- ALIGN TO DISRUPTION: you will shift your thinking to the actions that matter
- UNLOCK CREATIVITY: you will discover that it’s buried in your teams – and how you can let it out
- ACHIEVE AGILITY: you will learn more about the role of fast-teams
- ENHANCE YOUR SPEED: you will discover how to better align to our faster future
- ACCELERATE INNOVATION: you will find ways to rethink your strategic pipeline
- COLLABORATE MORE: you will maximise the benefit of your internal idea factory
- DELIVER ON GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES: you shift from reactive defence to disruptive offence
You will join the company of global leaders at Disney, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, BASF, Nikon, and hundreds more who have found that Jim’s crystal clear trends and innovation insight take them into a world in which the future belongs to those who are fast!
Artificial Intelligence For Leadership Teams: Strategic Clarity for Forward-Oriented Management Groups
The future of AI? It’s bigger than you think. You need strategic clarity.Artificial Intelligence For Leadership Teams: Strategic Clarity for Forward-Oriented Management Groups
Your leadership team requires a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges.
That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary. Jim Carroll will provide your leadership team with a highly customised keynote presentation that will provide you with deep insight into the impact of AI on your company and your industry. For more than 30 years, leadership teams at NASA, Pfizer, the PGA, Volvo, and the World Bank have trusted Jim to provide clarity on leadership trends and strategies that matter.
You don’t need hype or hysteria – you don’t need utopian visions. You also can’t let your internal engine of scepticism defer your action. When it comes to AI, you need to have a compelling sense of urgency, but you might have an astonishing mindset of complacency. Futurist Jim Carroll will provide you with the strategic clarity on AI that you require.
What you will learn:
- the two key AI trends unfolding today – generative AI (ChatGPT & LLM’s) and the ‘AI megatrends’
- an overview of generative technology trends and their promise and peril, opportunity and challenge
- an overview of the even more significant AI Megatrends already occurring – based on up-to-the-minute detailed research specific to your requirements
- the strategic opportunities that exist with AI within your industry and organization, on a near, medium, and long-term basis
- the significant challenges and risks that exist for the same time frame
- what leading innovators and competitors are doing to align with these fast-moving trends
From Boards to Team Events: Jim shares his insight with small intimate groups of 15-20 (Boards, senior leadership teams) to large-scale corporate leadership meetings of several hundred people. He adapts his style to the audience – from highly interactive small group discussions to keynote presentations.
AI Megatrends: Beyond ChatGPT – How AI Will Redefine your Industry, Profession, Company, and Career – and What You Need to Do About It!
Futurist Jim Carroll has been engaged by associations and corporate groups worldwide to put into perspective the long-term, transformative AI trends that will reshape and disrupt entire industries in the medium and longer term. Recent keynote events have included talks on the impact of AI on manufacturing, agriculture, ranching, construction, pharmaceutical and clinical research services, healthcare, construction, and many, many more.AI Megatrends: Beyond ChatGPT – How AI Will Redefine your Industry, Profession, Company, and Career – and What You Need to Do About It!
In this keynote, you will get concise, highly customized insight into the AI issues that matter – not a surface-level overview that is common with much of AI insight that is available.
Jim approaches his keynote with you by helping you understand that AI is far bigger than new developments like ChatGPT and large language model technology – the future of AI is also all about the rise of robots, industrial autonomous technologies, machine intelligence, and machine vision systems, digital twin and augmented reality systems, sensor world technologies & so much more. That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary – and is what Jim will provide you with a highly customized keynote presentation that will examine several issues.
Jim is known globally for his ability to outline a concise, compelling, and research-rich presentation directly related to your industry, profession, and company. His AI presentations usually involve two key components.
The first part takes a deep look at the continued evolution of ‘Generative AI technologies’ – the fast-moving trends involving ChatGPT and other generative technologies involving voice, video, and more; the impact of productivity, workflow, and other software-based opportunities built on top of these trends; and other new tools, products and search engine technologies. All of these trends will come to change the nature of the way we search, learn, interact, and think. It’s a new era of human-knowledge augmentation that is coming about through the emergence of personalized knowledge butlers; an acceleration in just-in-time knowledge through on-demand knowledge robots; and the arrival of the always-available knowledge servant.
Second, Jim provides strategic clarity on the “AI Megatrends” – the far-reaching, transformative, and disruptive AI concepts involving such things as predictive diagnostics, autonomous technologies, and machine vision, the hyper-connectivity of intelligent devices, workforce, and process augmentation technologies, real-time risk monitoring, product reinvention, and transformation through embedded AI, and so much more! Your future is bigger than you think, and will be dramatically transformed with these AI technologies – many of which are already disrupting industries in significant ways.
What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?
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 impact of hyper-connectivity. Rapid technological change. All of these trends — and more — require that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their innovation efforts.What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?
They can do so by learning what the world’s leaders are doing with their innovation efforts. For over 30 years, Jim Carroll has had the opportunity to study what makes some organizations excel at the concept of innovation while others do not. He has carefully cataloged their approaches, attitudes, leadership styles, and strategies into a concise overview that is the secret sauce of innovative thinking.
World-class innovators possess a relentless focus on growth, continually transitioning their revenue source, and solving customer problems before the customer knows it’s a problem. They focus on upside-down innovation by sourcing innovation ideas through their customers. They concentrate on ingesting fast ideas; checking their speed focusing on corporate agility; and focusing on long-term wins through constant incremental improvements. They know that skills partnerships are a key success factor. Most importantly, world-class innovators aren’t afraid to back away from big ideas. They know that right now is a great time to make bold decisions and to take decisive advantage to forge aggressive new paths against their competitors.
While everyone else wallows in aggressive indecision and organizational sclerosis, world-class innovators know that it is a great time to do great things!
In this keynote, Jim Carroll will provide you with unique insight into what these world-class organizations and high-caliber leaders are doing, to 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 necessity!
Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Aligning Yourself for the Era of Acceleration
“Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived using methodologies not yet in existence with materials not yet invented based on ideas not yet imagined by people who do not yet know they are inventing tomorrow, today.” That’s the context for tomorrow – a future that will be here sooner than you think. What are you going to do to turn the trends of tomorrow into the opportunities of today?Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Aligning Yourself for the Era of Acceleration
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, disruption and change. There are massive changes underway all around us – it’s pretty clear that we are moving to a world of 24-hour farming based on autonomous technology and virtual agriculture; a time of healthcare that is more focused on fixing you before you are sick rather than after; one in which we underwrite insurance based on real-time analytics rather than looking back in time. A time in which most cars and trucks are electric, rather than being based on gas and diesel; one in which most of the world’s population lives in cities, not urban areas; a time when we do more construction offsite instead of onsite; in which more of our energy is coming from small, local community energy microgrids instead of big centralized energy utilities, with the majority of that energy coming from renewables instead of gas, coal and nuclear; a world in which more and more of our food is grown in vertical farms instead of traditional farms.
In this context, it’s clear that we will see more change in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 100 – every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors, new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other trends! The art is discovering the opportunity in the trends, the growth in the ideas, and the future in the reality!
Once you do that, you need to align yourself to the big opportunities of today through bold, transformative thinking; take the small-scale steps today to align yourself to this future, and focus on a culture of speed and agility that can help you to get there at the right time! You need to think about transformation, not just innovation!
In this keynote, Jim outlines his simple but transformative structure with deep insight into what it takes to master the new, complex volatile world, by embracing the chaos, thinking transformation not innovation, mastering the timing of trends, and accelerating forward-oriented growth opportunities. The new model for going forward in the era of accelerating change: Think big, start small, and scale fast!
Accelerating Creativity: Discovering Opportunity With an Innovation Reboot!
We will see more change in every industry in the next 10 years than we have seen in the last 100 as transformation and disruption sweeps the world.Accelerating Creativity: Discovering Opportunity With an Innovation Reboot!
Every company is faced with the rapid emergence of new competitors, significant new business models, more challenging consumers, the acceleration of science, and a transition to the speed of innovation that will define their future.
How do you manage this complex new world and get ahead? By turning on your innovation engine, firing your creativity thrusters, and strapping in for a rocket ride into your faster future. You need to accelerate your ability to generate radical new ideas and transformative concepts. You need innovation creativity!
In this keynote, futurist and innovation expert Jim Carroll shares the innovation and creativity insight that he has gained through three decades of a relentless focus on what turns organizations into high-velocity innovation and creativity heroes. None other than NASA has invited Jim in – twice – to share his insight on innovation strategies. Disney – a creativity superhero – invited him in for a keynote on the opportunities that come from rethinking creativity. The World Bank engaged him for a talk that linked fast-moving future trends to the need for accelerated innovation and fast thinking.
Jim’s keynote will share with you the key elements of his imaginary but powerful “Masters in Business Imagination” curriculum – a structure of 10 key leadership strategies, actions and structures that will help you envision opportunity, think differently, and act quickly.
Launch yourself into the faster future with this unique, high energy creativity focused keynote from global futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll!
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Innovating Through Uncertainty | Jim Carroll | Saxton Speakers
History has taught us that only 10% of organizations become breakthrough performers during a period of economic challenge. What will you do to be part of this elite group of aggressive survivors? Futurist Jim Carroll has carefully studied the strategies they pursue, the concepts that drive them, and the actions they take to become a success in this complex new world. It's timely and critical insight! Recovery-oriented CEOs and senior executives understand that in addition to managing existing challenges, right now is the time to focus on strategies that align with our complex new reality to achieve growth and pursue opportunity. They know that they need to act quickly to establish an innovative mindset with their team to get there quickly. In this interactive keynote, Jim provides his unique insight on staying ahead in volatile times. A culture that has everyone thinking about what can be done going forward rather than looking back. A solutions-oriented mindset in which people are thinking less about the problems that have occurred and more about the innovative strategies that could be pursued. A leadership style and mindset that takes on volatility as a form of innovation oxygen, complexity as a foundation for action, uncertainty as the platform for disruption, and ambiguity as the clarity for stifling aggressive indecision.The thought leadership and action provoking sentiments that he evokes are truly remarkable. ... keep reading SAP North America
Your presentation was up-to-the-minute timely, possible only because of your ability to work with conference organizers in advance to determine our needs. This is a rare gift among keynote speakers, and greatly appreciated!
Everyone thought that you completely underscored the importance of creativity and innovation with a presentation full of energy and compelling information.
There's no doubt your talk will provoke on going discussions at all levels in the BBC for months to come.
We were extremely pleased with Jim's presentation...the content was great and would hopefully prompt people to think about the rapidity of change going on in our world!
