Futurist Jim Carroll
Disruptive Trend
& Innovation Expert
Author & Keynote Speaker
“I align you to your disruptive, accelerating
future by providing detailed, specific industry
trends – powerful leadership insight delivered
in a compelling and motivational style!”
– Jim Carroll
ABOUT JIM CARROLL
Jim is the world’s leading global futurist, keynote speaker, business trends, and transformation expert, recognized worldwide for his compelling motivational style, delivered on stage or via his world-class virtual broadcast studio.
For more than 28 years, Jim has shared his insight from the stage with over 2 million people worldwide. Jim is represented by the same agencies that book global icons such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George W. Bush and Richard Branson, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus, Michael Douglas and Jay Leno.
Jim’s clients include NASA, Disney, the World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer, Microsoft, Cisco, and over 1,500 more. He shares his highly customized, industry-specific insight with CEOs, senior executives, government leaders, and leadership teams on the real trends that matter, and the innovation pathways to align to new disruptive realities.
Why Book Jim Carroll?
Your event is critical. You don’t need an amateur. Learn about Jim’s 28 years of experience on the global stage.
Client & Industry Experience
World-class innovators turn to Jim for insight on what comes next. Learn why NASA, Disney, Pfizer and the PGA selected Jim for their event.
Disruptive Trends Insight
You thought you had time to prepare for a faster future – and then the explosive acceleration of all trends happened. Now what? I’ll show you the way!
ACCELERATE INNOVATION,
DELIVER GROWTH!
Imagine if you could accelerate your way into the future, by clearly aligning future trends, your strategic thinking, and your internal engine of creativity. Countless global organizations have engaged Jim Carroll for his unique insight and proven track record in providing a customized leadership program that will let you:
- SEE DISRUPTIVE TRENDS: you’ll better understand the trends that will impact you in the near and longer-term
- FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITY: you will achieve clarity on the trends that really matter
- ALIGN TO DISRUPTION: you will shift your thinking to the actions that really matter
- UNLOCK CREATIVITY: you will discover that it’s buried in your teams – and how you can let it out
- ACHIEVE AGILITY: you will learn more about the role of fast-teams
- ENHANCE YOUR SPEED: you will discover how to better align to our faster future
- ACCELERATE INNOVATION: you will find ways to rethink your strategic pipeline
- COLLABORATE MORE: you will maximize the benefit of your internal idea factory
- DELIVER ON GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES: you shift from reactive defense to disruptive offense
You will join the company of global leaders at Disney, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, BASF, Nikon, and hundreds more who have found that Jim’s crystal clear trends and innovation insight take them into a world in which the future belongs to those who are fast!

IN-PERSON KEYNOTES & LEADERSHIP EVENTS
CUSTOMIZED INSIGHT ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER!
- Jim has spoken to over 2 million people, over 28 years, on 5 continents
- 28 years of well-honed stage presence and style
- he has an established reputation as THE thought leader with very detailed, extensive, industry-specific insight
- this includes keynotes on agriculture, finance, insurance, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, sports, transportation & infrastructure, consumer products & more
- no two presentations have ever been the same
- each is carefully crafted based on particular client issues, trends, and requirements
- Jim conducts extensive, in-depth research using sophisticated online research tools that lead him into research papers, industry reports, news media, and more
- most keynotes and leadership meetings involve 25 to 50+ hours of customized research prep
- his insight is enhanced by unique insight shared with him from his global Fortune 1000 client base
- most of his events have been for senior executive leadership teams
- many of the topics covered have been related to fast-emerging disruptive trends that require immediate team coordination

EXTENSIVE, CUSTOMIZED
INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC EXPERTISE
“How long have you been a farmer?” asked one audience member of Jim after his keynote for a global agricultural organization.
That’s a testament to the massive in-depth industry expertise that Jim Carroll carries onto the stage for his highly specific, information-rich, heavily researched industry keynotes. He has *extensive* expertise in all of these industries and can delight you with his background and share a list of the global clients within the industries who have arranged for his industry insight.
- agriculture
- banking and finance
- education
- insurance
- healthcare
- automotive, trucking, and transportation
- manufacturing
- retail
- science and
- global economic development
Need to know more? Visit Jim’s industry page -> https://industries.jimcarroll.com


INVALUABLE, UNIQUE, CUSTOMIZED INSIGHT: A STUNNING ARRAY OF COMPLEX TOPICS IN LEADERSHIP KEYNOTES BY JIM
- “The future of the space industry” for NASA – twice – in Houston and the Goddard Space Center
- “The future of pharma and healthcare” for Pfizer in Paris – 6 months before Covid
- “The future of golf” for the PGA of America in Boston and Orlando
- “The future of manufacturing in 3rd world countries” for the World Bank in Morocco
- “The Future and the Next Economy” for Blackrock in San Francisco
- “Innovation in the World of Upside Down Trends” for the Walt Disney Corporation in Hollywood,
- “Self-Driving Cars, Electric Vehicles, and the Sharing Economy” for Mercedes in Detroit
- “The Acceleration of Legal Risk in the Era of Disruption” for Baker McKenzie, Dallas and Chicago
- “Celebrating Innovation at the 100th Anniversary Gala Dinner” for Nikon, Tokyo
- “Aligning To The Future of Counselling & Recreation” for the US Air Force & Navy Child Youth Programs, Dallas
- “The Acceleration of Personalized Medicine in the Era of Exponential Genomics” for Genentech Pharma
- “The Future Impact of Internet of Things” for Whirlpool / Maytag, Chicago
- “The Future of Insurance” for New York Life, New York
- “Prognostic Diagnostics, Self-Driving and the Future of Trucks for Volvo / Mac Trucks”, Dallas
- “The Future of Careers and Knowledge” for WorldSkills, Sao Paolo, Brazil
- “The Disruptive, Transformative Trends of Our Time” for the Wall Street Journal, New York
- “Transitioning Industrial Markets” for General Dynamics / Northrop Grumman: Charlotte
- “Brand Innovation At Speed ” for the Consumer Electronics Association CEO Summit, Ojai, California
- “Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations” for the National Australia Bank, Sydney, Australia
- “Competing in the Global Economy”, Fidelity Bank (Cayman)

ONLINE LEADERSHIP EVENTS
MEET JIM’S WORLD-CLASS VIRTUAL STUDIO!
Virtual insight from a sophisticated studio setup:
- BROADCAST QUALITY VIDEO: 3 Canon M200 DSLR’s with professional quality wide-angle lenses with multiple camera angles
- BROADCAST QUALITY AUDIO: Sennheiser XSW-3D wireless lavaliere microphone, supplemented by 2 Hotec wireless lapel mics
- PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING SETUP: 7 upper stage rack lights supplemented by 3 floor lights, plus 2 overhead flood lights and side face lamps ensure a properly lit studio scene
- CONFIDENCE ‘STAGE MONITORS’: allowing Jim to monitor and control the show flow live
- 4 MACINTOSH IMAC/MACBOOK PRO WITH ECamm.Live and NDI Integration: the most sophisticated OS/X production platform, combined with integration with other platforms for screen sharing, interactive polls, Q&A and resource offloading
- STREAM LABS STREAMDECK and LOGITECH STAGE REMOTE: pushbutton and remote advance show and flow control
- FULL GREEN SCREEN with OVER 500+ VIRTUAL STAGE SETS: professionally produced 3d virtual stage sets provides for professional broadcast quality productions
- STOCK IMAGE, AUDIO AND VIDEO LIBRARY: providing context and scene-specific content
- APPLE MOTION GRAPHICS: for special effects and titling
- GIGABIT ETHERNET: 1000MBS DOWN, 30MBS UP allowing for 4K broadcast distribution
- RESTREAM INTEGRATION: for simultaneous distribution to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook Live, Twitter, and other platforms, including custom RTMP destinations
You will not find any other professional keynote speaker virtual broadcast stdio of comparable quality. Contact Jim for a live tour!
Your Post-Covid Strategies
Keynote Topics
Highlight Video
DAILY INSPIRATION
Insight from Jim’s Virtual Broadcast Studio or from the Stage
Daily Leadership Insight from Jim Carroll
“A Motivational Commentary on Trends, Disruption & Transformation to Start Your Day”
Stages!
Hundreds of events, 2 million+ people
Highly Customized Topics, Extensive Research, Detailed Insight – See an Extensive List of the Unique Projects Jim has Taken On for Global Leaders
BOOKS BY JIM CARROLL

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast

The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast

Ready, Set, Done

What I Learned From Frogs in Texas

Now What?
Trends & Strategies for Your Post-Covid Future
“The Global Pandemic Has Placed a Giant Fast Forward Button on Every Industry”
INNOVATION INSIGHTS
If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll end up with the same old thing!
Extensive Specialized Industry & Topic Experience
“Browse through the vast, highly specialized, customized insight Jim has delivered to global leaders – learn why you’ll gain future trends insight from Jim that you won’t see elsewhere”

ACCELERATING INTO A POST-COVID RECOVERY!
- The global pandemic has shifted the axis of the global economy, business models, customer behaviour and more.
- It is by aligning to a massively different new reality that organizations will find their path into this ‘next economy.’
- Jim’s insight is more important than ever before as companies begin to seek the path to recovery.
- Since the crisis began, Jim has been providing clients with detailed, industry specific insight on what comes “post-Covid.”
You can fall behind – or you can choose to accelerate through uncertainty. Contact Jim today!
GLOBAL REPRESENTATION
Jim Carroll is represented and brought into events worldwide by some of the world’s leading global speakers bureaus – those who represent other global icons, politicians and business leaders.
Partial Client List
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Daily Inspiration: “Every smart company eventually does a stupid thing! It’s not too late to avoid your fate!”
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Daily Inspiration: “If you are looking for someone who will tell you what you want to hear, rather than what you need to hear, then you’ve got a bigger problem than you think!”
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