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Jim Carroll

“I align you to the future by providing highly customized trends & industry research, delivered in a compelling motivational style” – Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurist, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue chip client list. Over the last 25 years, Jim has shared his insight with more than 2 million people in attendance at his events.

Jim’s global client list gives him a front row seat to the high velocity change that is occurring as disruption comes to take hold of every industry and every organization. With that insight, and the customized research that he undertakes for every engagement, he helps to transform growth-oriented organizations into high-velocity innovation heroes!

Jim provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 5,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning sessions for CEO / board / senior management meetings. He has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of associations, professions, companies, individuals, and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others.

He is recognized worldwide as a “thought leader” and authority on: global trends; rapid business model change; business model disruption in a period of economic uncertainty; and the necessity for fast paced innovation. He is an authority recognized for his deep insight into the cutting edge trends of our time, including autonomous vehicle technology, 3D printing, virtual reality, alternative energy generation and storage technologies, genomic medicine and healthcare virtualization, advanced robotics and artificial intelligence, blockchain and virtual cash, machine learning and robotics, crowd-thinking and next generation R&D.

Jim’s global client list is extensive and covers virtually every industry sector, including with NASA and 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, International Roads Union & hundreds more.

Jim’s insight has been covered in the UK Telegraph, Dubai’s Capital Magazine and South Africa’s The Star, and AP News, among hundreds more. BusinessWeek named Carroll as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity. He was also a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, The Business of Innovation.

Jim Carroll is an author, with books including Surviving the Information Age, 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: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.

Jim has an experienced track record on stage, having shared his insight with over 2 million people in 1,500 presentations worldwide over a 25 year time span.

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  • CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

    A highly customized keynote, built on a variety of potential themes, designed to accelerate your imagination, ignite your creativity and turn your innovation engine on. Explore these potential keynote topics to start planning for your own event. The content will be aligned and highly customized to your particular issues, strategies, needs and requirements.

  • EMERGING AND FUTURE TRENDS

    We have a new vocabulary! Self-driving cars, 3d printing, crowdfunding, the sharing economy, blockchains, personal drones, swarmbots, smart dust, vertical farms, Internet of Things, cognitive computing, smart factories, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, quantum computing, intelligent farms, smart clothing! What seemed to be science fiction just a few short years ago has become a reality today, as time compresses and the future accelerates.

  • THE FUTURE OF MEDIA & TECH COMPANIES

    Technology and media companies used to think their industries were changing fast. Then before they knew it, along came the velocity of change introduced by the idea of the planck constant and the concept of the yottabit!

  • SPECIFIC INDUSTRY INSIGHT

    Jim is a widely recognized industry expert – in multiple different industries! Spend some time to explore the keynote topic descriptions that can be used to accelerate your thinking for a keynote for your event or leadership meeting. Jim will undertake extensive consultation with you on your event and customize to your particular needs.

  • Agriculture

    “Whether it’s driverless tractors, a weed-zapping robot or data-transmitting crops, the future of farming is arriving faster than you might think!

  • Automotive & Trucking

    “There can’t be a more exciting industry in the world today than what is happening with the marriage of automotive/transport technology to Silicon Valley! It’s a FAST moving industry, with SEISMIC changes underway.”

  • Manufacturing

    “Collapsing product lifecycles. The connectivity of the Internet of things. Mass customization. Digitization, robotics and the cloud. Design based on crowd thinking. Rapid prototyping and deployment. Faster time to market. 3D printing / additive manufacturing. Are you ready for the new world of manufacturing?”

  • Retail and Consumer Products

    “The average consumer scans some 12 feet of shelf space per second. Mobile interactions in the retail space are the new normal for purchasing influence. You’ve got but multi-seconds to grab their attention. Faster is the fast! ”

  • Insurance Industry

    “The world of insurance is moving from an era of looking back at past results to assessing risk in real time! The winners will be those who can realign to the new disruptive concepts of risk assessment as this occurs!”

Books

Surviving the Information Age
Surviving the Information Age

Whether it’s HAL the murderous computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey or billing systems demanding payment for $0.00, baby boomers have grown up with a simple message — computers are not to be trusted! We are skeptics, but let’s face it, we know our discomfort with technology is leaving us behind as the world of work and leisure changes. It’s no longer something we can afford to ignore — quite simply, we must adapt to survive the dramatic economic change arising from an increasingly wired planet. Originally published in 1997, Jim Carroll’s Surviving the Information Age is an engaging, humorous and non-technical account of the challenges that baby- boomers faced in the early days of the computer revolution. With today’s hyper-connected world of Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, it’s all too easy to forget just how strange the early days of the computer revolution happened to be. The book takes a fascinating look back at what happened when technology first began to invade our lives - and the challenges and opportunities that it presented along the way!

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  The Future Belongs to those Who are Fast
The Future Belongs to those Who are Fast

We live in a period of time in which change is happening faster than ever before. Success will come to those who innovate, change and adapt! The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll's blog, in which he covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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   Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast
Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast

The high velocity global economy of today drives rapid consumer, business, industrial and marketplace change. The fast paced world around us is relentless and unforgiving. It drives increased customer and business partner expectations, requires faster innovation, and necessitates a faster more complex response to rapidly changing circumstances. That's why you need to learn how to innovate when faster is the new fast - by getting into a mindset where you're prepared to figure out a solution to a problem, almost before you know you have a problem.

You can purchase this book here

      What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation
What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation

We live in an era of unprecedented and relentless change. The emergence of China as a superpower; hyper-innovation and business market turmoil; constant career change and rapid scientific advances. Competition is changing overnight, and product lifecycles often last for just a few months. In What I Learned From Frogs in Texas, Jim Carroll provides concrete guidance on how to:
* Turn challenges into opportunity
* Anticipate future trends that will impact you
* Move from a culture of indecision to one that is forward-thinking and decisive
* Instill an innovative culture in your company
* Develop key leadership skills for the future
* View change as an opportunity to pursue not as a threat to be feared

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