Jim Carroll

Noted futurist, trends and innovation expert, guidance on creativity, and growth strategies mixed with a bit of fun!

JIM CARROLL
Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert

"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!" Walt Disney Corporation

"...the thought leadership and action provoking sentiments that he evokes are truly remarkable" SAP North America

"...there's no doubt your talk will provoke on going discussions at all levels in the BBC for months to come." British Broadcasting Corporation

“The feedback we received...rated you as one of the best speakers we have had in our 16 years of our conference.” Wirtz Beverage Group

• a leading international futurist, trends & innovation expert with unique global insight, recently covered in Advertising Age, Credit Suisse Bulletin, Dubai's Capital Magazine ...
• The Walt Disney Corporation needed to inspire senior staff on the topics of innovation and creativity: and brought in Jim Carroll
• Business Week : "Jim is one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity"
• a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation," hosted by Maria Bartiromo
• Credit Suisse profiles Jim Carroll in their global customer publication Bulletin: "unique insight on growth"
• Example keynote: 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy
• a strategic thinker and "thought "leader" - deep insight into trends, the future, creativity, innovation, with a global client base that includes Nestle, Motorola, American Society for Quality, Caterpillar, SAP, Verizon, the BBC, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Property and Casualty Insurance Association of America, and the Swiss Innovation Forum and many more -- see the client list
• an author, columnist, media commentator, consultant, with a focus on linking future trends to innovation and creativity, provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 3,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning insight for CEO / board / senior management meetings
• hundreds of thousands have shared his insight with highly energized presentations in Zurich, New York, Vancouver, Cayman Islands, Palm Springs, London, Los Angeles, Budapest, Miami, Toronto, Costa Rica, San Francisco, Nassau and Stockholm,
• Jim is the author of Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation
• Sample topic: Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World
• an 18 year track record in providing direct, independent guidance to a huge, diverse client base, combined with a previous professional financial background, including 12 years with the world's largest professional services firm
• he has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of industries, associations, professions, companies, individuals
• has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries
• he has provided his insight in dozens of books, in over 600 articles, and in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with media exposure and interviews with ABC News, BusinessWeek, INC, Fast Company, CNBC, Texas Meetings and Events, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL Magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates) CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few

• he 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.
• he sets the stage for organizations to become more competitive, innovative and adaptable, and that are open to the opportunities of the future
• he does so in a very dynamic and motivational style, with presentations that involve his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations

• he 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.
• "thought provoking, full of energy, up to the minute and timely" are just a few of the ways to describe Jim's presentations. Jim has the ability to energize people so they can discover opportunities for personal and corporate growth.
• each presentation is unique and customized. Clients value the time Jim takes to "know" their industry or profession, their issues and concerns.

• 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy
• Where's the Growth? What's Hot and Not When Volatility Rocks!
• Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World
  
• What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy
• What Comes Next? Leadership Insight for the High-Velocity Economy
• After "Flat": Competing Effectively in the Global Economy

Jim works with you and undertakes detailed research to prepare a customized presentation that meets your needs. He does what you need him to do: he addresses your issues, goals and opportunities, in the framework of his expertise as a global trends, innovation and change expert. In doing so, he comes up with some wonderfully customized, serious or quirky title presentations for your keynote that will be sure to engage your audience right off the bat. .

More client comments

"I knew from the moment you used a ketchup bottle to effectively illustrate how change impacts all of us that your presentation would be anything but typical. You were spectacular! ..... Feedback on you and your presentation were phenomenally positive. Our attendees were particuarly impressed with how you demonstrated ways in which they could immediately apply what they had learned. " American Payroll Association

"Everyone thought that you completely underscored the importance of creativity and innovation with a presentation full of energy and compelling information. " CBS/Infinity Broadcasting

"Most of the crowd and management agreed that you were the best keynote speaker we've had in the last few years." National Rural Telephone Association / National Rural Electrical Cooperative Association

"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! " International Newspaper Marketing Association

"Energetic, refreshing, meaningful ... you definitively set the stage for the next day. " Roche Diagnostics .