Jim Carroll

Global Futurist, AI Speaker, Trends and Innovation Expert

Jim Carroll is recognized as the world’s leading futurist, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list. Over the last 30 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight 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 50 to 5,000, as well as intimate, customized strategic planning sessions for CEO/CxO, board, and senior management meetings. He has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of organizations and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others. He has been invited in by NASA, Disney, PGA of America, Pfizer, World Bank, and the Wall Street Journal for his perspective on disruptive trends.

Jim Carroll Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
Canada

Jim Carroll Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
Please Inquire
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
Canada

Why Jim Carroll?

The world’s most prominent organizations – from NASA to Disney, the PGA to Mercedes Benz, the World Bank to Volvo, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the World Government Summit, Nikon to Blackrock – have all turned to Jim Carroll for his insight – shouldn’t you?

What Jim Provides For Your Leadership Team

Identification of The Trends That Are Transforming Your Industry
Identification of the Barriers That Challenge Your Culture of Opportunity
How to Fuel Creativity & Innovation Within Your Team
Steps to Develop Action Plans for Action & Disruption

The Background that Jim Brings to Your Association, Leadership or Customer Event

vast industry experience – automotive, agriculture, energy, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, hi-tech, healthcare, insurance
extensive, customized research after deep consultation with you on focus area
insight enhanced by his continual trends tracking and analysis
focused – he only takes on 40-45 events each year – quality matters!

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Being Unique: Simple Strategies for Finding Your Creativity, Accelerating Innovation, and Getting to Your Future Faster!

Conformity stifles creativity and prevents great ideas from flourishing. Uniqueness is the superpower that lets creativity flow! Embracing uniqueness is crucial for innovation and taking initiative, which is essential for navigating the future. ...

Conformity stifles creativity and prevents great ideas from flourishing. Uniqueness is the superpower that lets creativity flow! Embracing uniqueness is crucial for innovation and taking initiative, which is essential for navigating the future.

Your unique perspective and ability to think differently will empower you to create change and shape a better tomorrow. It sets you apart from others and lets you achieve your full innovation potential!

Based on his book of the same name coming in 2025, Jim shares with teams the key methods by which they can accelerate their creative, innovative capabilities!

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AI For LEADERSHIP TEAMS: Strategic Clarity on the Disruptive, Transformative Challenges and Opportunities That Really Matter

Leadership teams require a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges. They don’t need hype. That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is ...

Leadership teams require a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges. They don’t need hype.

That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary. Jim Carroll has provided dozens of global leadership teams with highly customized, industry-specific keynotes that give deep insight into the impact of AI on the company and the industry.

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THINK BIG START SMALL SCALE FAST: Jim Carroll’s transformative concept for moving forward in the era of accelerating change!

Customized with detailed research for specific industries, including agriculture, finance, banking, insurance, retail, supply chain, construction, manufacturing and more. Every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by ...

Customized with detailed research for specific industries, including agriculture, finance, banking, insurance, retail, supply chain, construction, manufacturing and more.

Every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors, new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other challenges! The speed with which these changes occur are now running up against the traditional culture, organizational structure and leadership methodologies that once worked well in the past – but don’t align to today’s fast moving realities.

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Your world & the future of everything: The future demands that you think BIG, be bold, and relentlessly pursue opportunity.

Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived, with materials not yet in existence, using methodologies not yet developed – and these will be sold to consumers who do not yet know that these new products and services will become a ...

Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived, with materials not yet in existence, using methodologies not yet developed – and these will be sold to consumers who do not yet know that these new products and services will become a critical part of their lives!

That’s the perspective that Futurist Jim Carroll brings to his keynote presentation at association events and corporate leadership meetings – and with that theme in mind, will provide you with a customized, concise overview of the trends that matter into tomorrow.

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CEO / CxO: Leadership Events

Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future. A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it ...

Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future.

A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts.

Jim is known for his presentations at these events which involve highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, a global track record, and detailed industry experience!

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Customer & Client Event Keynotes

Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before. That’s why organizations continue to invest in ...

Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before.

That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events.

It’s an opportunity to tell their story, position their products, outline their value proposition, and build relationships.

Futurist Jim Carroll helps organizations deliver their key strategic message at these customer or client user group meetings with a highly customized keynote based on detailed industry and issue research.

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About Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurist, trends and innovation experts. Over the last 30 years, Carroll has shared his insight with more than 2 million people in attendance at his events. He is recognized within the global speaking industry for his highly customized, heavily researched, industry specific keynotes, leadership presentations and small, intimate senior leadership meetings.

Jim’s global client list is extensive and covers virtually every industry sector, including the World Bank, Volvo, NASA, 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, and hundreds more.

With a front row seat to the high velocity change that is occurring as disruption comes to take hold of every industry and every organization, he helps to transform growth-oriented organizations into highvelocity innovation heroes! Countless global organizations have engaged Jim for his unique insight and proven track record in providing a customized leadership program that will let you see disruptive trends, focus on opportunity, align to disruption, unlock creativity, achieve agility and enhance your speed, collaborate more and deliver on growth opportunities!

Jim provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 50 to 5,000, as well as intimate, customized strategic planning sessions for CEO/CxO, board, and senior management meetings. He has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of organizations and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others.

Jim is known for his ability to take on unique, highly customized topics for senior leadership teams that align to a particular strategic goal or topic area, including the future of the space industry for NASA – twice; the future of pharma and healthcare for Pfizer in Paris – 6 months before Covid, accelerating innovation in the golf industry for the PGA of America, the future of manufacturing in 3rd world countries for the World Bank, and innovation and creativity in a world of upside down trends for the Walt Disney Corporation. He has developed a well-honed reputation within the global speaking industry for being the go-to-guy for virtually any type of specialized, unique trends or innovation topic.

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

In addition, he is an author, with numerous books including: Now What: Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future; Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; Surviving the Information Age; The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast; Ready, Set, Done; and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.

Testimonials

“On behalf of the entire Innovative Technology Partnerships Office, thank you for your engaging and thought-provoking presentation at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. From the feedback we have received, the event was a great success. Thank you for sharing your insight and expertise with us!”

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

“We were extremely pleased with Jim’s presentation… the content was bang-on and would hopefully prompt people to think about the rapidity of change going on in our world!. Jim’s storytelling approach really helps to get his points across! He did a great job!”

Walt Disney Company

“A stunning keynote with extremely powerful insight. Humour, energy, deep research and relevant content for our audience. We loved him!”

Swiss Innovation Forum

“Jim Carroll is an exceptional speaker. Period! Jim was the keynote for our U.S. Manufacturing Summit to support advanced manufacturing technologies. He has a boundless energy to support his well crafted presentation. It was thoughtful, persuasive, and entertaining! You have to experience Jim Carroll!”

DVIRC

Jim Carroll delivered an excellent and powerful keynote at our annual Innovation Summit. We selected Jim because of his accessibility and passion to tailor his expertise to fit our vision, this combination produced exceptional results. We will certainly be partnering with Jim in the future and recommend you do the same.

Amsted Rail

“Jim is one of the best speakers we had. He had excellent information that our attendees could take home and incorporate it into their plans immediately. He also incorporated our messages into his presentation that helped localize the information for our group. Highly recommended!”

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