JIM CARROLL
Leading Global Futurist, Trends and Innovation Expert

Transforming Growth Organizations into High Velocity Innovation Heroes!

The world's largest organizations turn to Jim Carroll when seeking insight into the future. So should you!

Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends & innovation experts. And it’s his inspirational, transformative thinking that will help you discover opportunity in an era of high-velocity change. And in his most recent keynotes and leadership sessions, he has been helping his clients focus on growth through innovation, and by aligning their strategy to fast-paced future trends. Jim keynotes audiences of 4,000 in Las Vegas, or works with small Board/CEO level strategy sessions. With a 15-year track record, he has deep, unique, industry or association specific insight.

Partial client list: Disney, Pearson PLC, CapitolOne, Readers Digest Food & Entertainment Group (Publishers of Everyday with Rachel Ray), Lincoln Financial, Burger King, Visa, IBM, Nestle, BC, Deloitte, Caterpillar, Rockwell Collins, Trane/Ingersoll Rand, World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Conference, Swiss Innovation Forum, Toshiba Australia, Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Express, National Association of Children's Hospitals, Texas Credit Union League, SAP Sweden, American Community Bankers, Verizon, Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, US Army Corps of Engineers, World Congress on Quality, American Landscape and Nursery Association -- and 1,000 more!

Jim has a tracked record of providing unique guidance on cutting edge trends, and identifying opportunities for innovation; his unique insight has been sought by some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. When the Walt Disney Corporation went looking for an expert on the topic of innovation and creativity, they went with Jim Carroll! When the Readers Digest Food & Entertainment Division, the publisher of such innovative magazines as Everyday with Rachel Ray, went looking for a keynote speaker for a New York City based symposium on marketing and advertising trends, they went with Jim Carroll. And when the US College Board searched for an inspirational futurist who could address the future of education, for an audience that includes leading educators from Harvard, Yale, and 100 other top US universities and colleges, they chose Jim Carroll!

What's Jim Carroll talking about? Global economic trends; social-networking and branding; hyper-innovation; rapid time to market; the latest consumer trends; collapse of product lifecycles and high-velocity marketing; the global economic crisis; the skills issue and workforce challenges; managing Gen-Y and Gen-connect and the new workplace; creating high performance, change oriented teams. Achieving innovation and opportunity in an era of economic challenge. You name it -- this global thought leader is talking about it.

Quick background

• a leading international futurist, trends & innovation expert with unique global insight, recently covered in The Advertiser, Credit Suisse Bulletin, Dubai's Capital Magazine ...
• 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"
• a strategic thinker and "thought "leader" - deep insight into trends, the future, creativity, innovation, with a global perspective
• 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, Sydney, 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
• 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

What he does!

• 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

How can he help you?

• 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.

Potential topics - Jim will work with you to customize!

Global clients such as Disney, Caterpillar, Nestle and Motorola didn't choose Jim for a canned speech - they chose Jim Carroll because of his worldwide reputation for providing a highly customized, energizing and unique presentation into the future, innovation, and issues of creativity that directly relates to their issues, challenges, opportunities and concerns. Of course, every presentation needs a title, and consider a few of the recent ones that his clients have used to promote their event or meeting:

• What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?
• Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation
• 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy
• Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Change Everything You Think You Know
• What's Happening with Your Workforce: Making Generations Work!

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.

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 .