Jim Carroll provides strategic trends and innovation insights that guide individuals, teams, and companies into the future. His insights, backed up by detailed research, has made him a trustworthy leader in his field.
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He is the author of nearly 40 business books, including:
– Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast (2007)
– What I Learned From Frogs in Texas (2010)
– The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast (2012)
– Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Stories From the Stage on Innovation, Disruption, and the Accelerating Future (2020)
– Now What: Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future (2021)
– Embracing Mediocrity: How To Do Nothing Notable and Accomplish as Little as Possible (2025)
– Embracing Mediocrity: How to Accelerate Your Future and Achieve Breakthrough Results (2025)
– Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times (2025)
– Being Unique: Turning Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage Into Your Competitive Edge (2025)
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His expertise has seen him become a familiar face on television and in publications, including ABC News, CNBC, The South China Morning Post, CAPITAL Magazine, The Advertiser, and Dubai’s Capital Magazine.
Jim has been a practicing futurist since the 1990s, with his insight drawing the attention of everyone from Disney to NASA and Pfizer. He is known globally for his ability to provide concise, detailed insight for offsite CEO or CxO leadership events.
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Previous Events
– NASA booked him twice to give the keynote on the ‘future of space’ in the context of space privatisation and commercialisation
– The PGA of America booked him twice on the transformative trends that provide growth and innovation in the golf industry
– Pfizer booked him for an internal leadership keynote on the transformation of healthcare through virtual and telemedicine
– He delivered a keynote on the future of manufacturing and opportunities for growth in third-world economies for the World Bank
– He was booked twice by Volvo to discuss research on electric vehicles and autonomous technology
– Disney had him deliver a keynote on the key concepts related to leading-edge innovation and creativity
– SAP have booked Jim for over 40 events for keynotes focussed on business transformation, digital innovation, and accelerating business operations
– KPMG: Multiple client-oriented events over the world on insurance, healthcare, and technology
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Keynote Speaker
Jim is frequently booked for CEO events and leadership meetings, often providing opening and closing keynotes on bespoke, often niche, topics, including the future of healthcare, the transformation of infrastructure, hyperconnected medicine, consumers post-Covid, disruption of the energy industry, the future of agriculture, the sharing economy, and the Internet of Things.
In a complex and competitive landscape, positioning your product or service to your client has become more of a challenge than ever before. Which is why organisations continue to invest in customer-client events.
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Keynote Topics
Dancing in the Rain: Leadership, Innovation, and Opportunity in Volatile Times: In a world rocked by economic uncertainty, relentless disruption, and market shifts, the default reaction is to retreat and wait it out. Jim challenges audiences to reject the pessimism that accompanies economic downturns, and instead to transform volatility from a threat into an advantage.
Key Takeaways
– Understand and cultivate a mindset of defiance
– Uncovering opportunities amidst chaos
– Mastering action frameworks for turbulent times
– Adopting future-ready leadership approaches
– Achieving organisational alignment for resilience
– Winning the recovery by building momentum
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Unlocking Tomorrow: How to Get To Your Future, Faster: Jim helps organisations understand how to align their tomorrow, today; he does this by helping you accelerate your innovation efforts and deliver growth.
Key Takeaways
– Better understand disruptive trends
– Focus on opportunity and the trends that matter
– Shift your thinking to the actions that matter
– Unlock your creativity
– Achieve agility
– Enhance your speed
– Accelerate innovation
– Collaborate more
– Deliver on growth opportunities
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Artificial Intelligence for Leadership Teams: Strategic Clarity for Forward-Oriented Management Groups: Jim provides leadership teams with customised presentations that will provide them with the deep insight into the impact of AI on a company or industry.
Key Takeaways
– You will understand more about Generative AI and AI Megatrends
– Overview of generative technology trends and their pros and cons
– Overview of the AI Megatrends already occurring
– Strategic opportunities that exist with AI within your industry
– Significant challenges and risks that exist in the same timeframe
– What leading innovators are doing to align with fast-moving trends
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What Do Work Class Innovators Do That Others Don’t Do: Jim has spent 30 years studying what makes some organisations excel at the concept of innovation while others do not. He has catalogued their approaches, attitudes, leadership styles, and strategies into a concise overview that is the secret sauce of innovative thinking.
Key Takeaways
– Understand when it is a good time to do great things
– What are world-class organisations and high-calibre leaders doing
– How to manage the velocity of change
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Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Aligning Yourself For the Era of Acceleration: We are living in a time of massive change and challenge, but also one of massive opportunity. 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, masting the timing of trends, and accelerating forward-oriented growth opportunities.
Key Takeaways
– See times of change as a time of opportunity
– Manage upheaval successfully
– Discover the opportunities in trends and how to make the future a reality
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Previous Keynotes
The Acceleration of Risk in the Era of Disruption: Baker McKenzie: Jim was booked to talk about the future of work, and the unique legal issues that the future brings. The keynote looked at new ricks involving intellectual property, the Internet of Things, new careers, and accelerated product innovation.
The Post-Pandemic Economy and the Future of Risk: Zurich Insurance: The global pandemic changed the axis of our universe – what was disruptive before is now potentially massively transformative. Jim took the delegates from Zurich Insurance on a voyage of three issues – how the pandemic changed the future, what impact it had, and what unique risk management issues might we now face.
The Future of Dentistry Post-Pandemic: Invisalign: Jim spoke to over 500 dentists about the emergence of dental biomaterials and living tissue implants, as well as the acceleration of dental science and how to innovate despite uncertainty.
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Clients
Alligntech, Baker McKenzie, Blackrock, Burger King, Cigna, Cisco, Computer Science Corporation, Disney, Ernest Young, Hitachi Ventura, HP Mexico, Johnson & Johnson, KOA Kampgrounds of America, McKinsey, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, NASA, Nestle, Nikon Japan, Pfizer, PGA, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Swiss Innovation Forum, Syngenta, T. Rose Price, Toshiba Australia, Volvo, the Wall Street Journal, the World Bank
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To check fees and availability for Jim Carroll, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289
