Futurist and Innovation and Trends Expert
Jim Carroll is recognized as one of the world's leading international futurists, trends, and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list. He helps transform growth-oriented organizations into high-velocity innovation heroes, and has been called "a leading source for innovation insight" by BusinessWeek. An author, consultant, and frequent media commentator, Carroll has some 3,000-plus media interviews to his credit. He has written over 35 books, including 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. In his keynotes, workshops and leadership meetings, Jim Carroll 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. 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.
Carroll's sessions are unique because he provides 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 shows organizations how they can become more competitive, innovative and adaptable, using a dynamic and motivational presentation that involves his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations. He builds his presentation based on industry challenges, and reveals how to realign business strategy for fast-paced economic trends, new business realities, and business model change. Above all, Carroll prepares organizations to succeed in a world that demands relentless innovation.
Carroll is globally recognized for his unique wisdom and insight into trends. He has been a CNBC guest expert on innovation and his insights have been covered by ABC News, INC, Fast Company, 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.
Carroll's clients include Motorola, Nestle, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Caterpillar, Lincoln Financial, CapitalOne, the American Nursery and Landscape Association, the Swiss Innovation Forum, Toshiba Australia, the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, and the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association.
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Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation. In the face of widespread economic volatility, organizations have three essential choices: they can panic, making rash decisions on structure, markets, investments; they can freeze and do nothing; or they can respond to rapid change through innovation, particularly with respect to strategies, structure, capabilities, markets, products, and activities.
Jim Carroll, one of the world's leading futurists, trends & innovation experts shares his insight on the strategies that leading edge organizations are pursuing to stay ahead of the economy.
It's timely and critical insight! Many CEO's and senior executives understand that in addition to managing existing challenges, now is the time to focus on trends and the future, and that they need to act quickly to establish an innovative mindset to get there intact. Jim provides his unique insight on staying ahead in volatile times, through his signature keynote addresses, after-dinner talks, discussions at small intimate management/Board meetings, or by speaking and participating in large scale senior management and leadership meetings.
7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy. While volatility rocks global markets, there continue to be fundamental truths: your industry, products, competition, skills requirements, organizational capabilities, and ability to respond to rapid change will define your future success. Innovative organizations succeed by mastering the pace of the new high velocity economy.
Product innovations occur today at such a pace that "time to market" is now measured in weeks rather than years. A furious pace of technological innovation continues unabated, with the rapid emergence of new technologies that change entire industries. Customer mindset has become increasingly difficult to capture as we become a society with massive attention deficits. Business models are subject to upheaval due to economic turmoil, commoditization of product, and the rapid emergence of new competitors.
It's a fast paced world - and that's why leading edge organizations are focused on key leadership strategies that provide for a fast paced future. In this inspirational keynote, Jim Carroll will challenge you to confront the "big trend" that you need to face head on and what you should be doing RIGHT NOW. Jim's client list includes the BBC, the Walt Disney Corporation, and Readers Digest Food & Entertainment group, the publisher of Everyday with Rachel Ray.
What Comes Next With the Global Economy? Opportunities, Strategies and Inspiration for Transformative Times. Where will we be in 2015? 2020 or 2025? What challenges and opportunities will we face? In a world of massive globalization, what will our markets, customers, industries and organizational structures look like?
These are truly transformative times, with an alignment of political leaders, business executives, consumers, researchers and industry groups all realizing that now is the time that we need to solve complex problems with bold thinking and "big ideas." Some of the biggest organizations in the world - including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Toshiba, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the BBC, Motorola and Nestle - have sought just such insight from Jim Carroll. As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim Carroll has become globally recognized as one of the world's leading international futurists.
In a highly customized presentation, he outlines the major trends that will impact you, and what you need to start doing now in order to respond. He will open your mind up to the opportunities of this transformative time - a new era when big ideas and bold action are proving to the foundation for significant transformation in how we approach global challenges, problems and opportunities. In doing so, he will ensure you are well positioned for the future!
What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy. Business Week recently named Jim Carroll as one of the four world's leading sources for innovation insight. He was featured as an innovation expert on a global broadcast of the CNBC show, The Business of Innovation.
It's no wonder - Jim has carefully studied the key strategies and leadership ideas that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity. Jim 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. His latest book, Ready, Set, DONE! How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, captures the necessity for urgent innovation in order to remain competitive in the high velocity economy.
Leading the Future: Key Leadership Strategies for the High Velocity Economy. We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless, rapid change. That's why leading edge organizations look to futurist, innovation and trends expert Jim Carroll for a keynote, executive briefing or workshop that clearly focuses on how to develop and engender the leadership skills of the 21st Century. As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim has become recognized for his keen insight into the necessary leadership skills of today. He outlines the major attributes that the future-oriented leaders of today have adapted:
What's Happening with Our Workforce: Making Generations Work. Join international futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll as he explores some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today.
With the coming "end of retirement," most companies will come to realize they'll need a lot of telephones with big buttons for members of the 70+ folk who are still a part of their workforce - and a lot of innovative workplace practices as well. That's but one challenge - the arrival of "Gen-Connect" (also known as 'Gen-Y') - the kids who have been wired with a mouse since birth - will lead to the question of whether "good luck" will be the only possible response to the question of "Managing Gen-Y." This workplace weirdness will only be compounded by the ongoing rapid evolution of knowledge and skills, such that most organizations will find it impossible to find the highly specialized skills needed in the economy of the future. Are we really in an economy in which there is an emerging profession of folks known as "manure managers?" You bet - and it's all part of the unique issues that companies must begin thinking about today.
Jim's unique insight into emerging HR trends is in high demand - 3,000 members of the International Human Resource Information Management Association recently heard him put the issues in context on stage in Dallas, Texas. Join Jim as he shares his insight into the trends that you are already faced with, and the innovative and creative ways that you can come to grips with the depth of the challenges ahead.
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