Futurist Jim Carroll
Artificial Intelligence Keynote Speaker
Trends and Innovation Expert
The Futurist that Global CEOs trust.
“I help CEOs, senior executives, and association leaders
achieve their strategic objectives by aligning them to a
disruptive, accelerating future. It’s actionable, powerful
leadership insight based on detailed, specific industry
trends – delivered within a fast-paced keynote
with a compelling 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.
In his 30-year career as a speaker, Jim has shared his insight with over 2 million people worldwide, providing guidance to many of the world’s largest organizations, with over 1,500 keynotes and leadership presentations and sessions. Jim is represented by the same agencies that book global icons such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Ervin “Magic” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds & Tom Brady.
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 with 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!

The AI Megatrends
Futurist Jim Carroll is regularly booked by CEOs and senior executives of major organizations to provide an opening or closing keynote, on a highly customized topic. Learn more!
KEYNOTES & LEADERSHIP EVENTS – CUSTOMIZED INSIGHT ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER!
- a career that has spanned 30 years, he has spoken to over 2 million people on 5 continents
- his sophisticated trends tracking and research system regularly scans dozens of rapidly emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, digital twin technology, advanced genomics, material science, and more than 100+ other topics
- he uses this trends tracking insight by assessing the impact of these trends across healthcare, consumer goods, manufacturing, insurance, agriculture, and dozens of other industries and sub-industries
- he shares this insight through sophisticated trends research reports that cover near-term (1 to 6 months), medium (6-24 months), and long-term trends (> 2 years) and weaves the insight into his stage presentations, combined with the up-to-the-minute deep research undertaken for every customized keynote
- he is a master of delivery, with a 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

Imagine if You Could Imagine Tomorrow. Today.
Futurist Jim Carroll is regularly booked by CEOs and senior executives of major organizations to provide an opening or closing keynote, on a highly customized topic. Learn more!
A.I. isn’t about technology. It’s about the strategy. Futurist Jim Carroll is known worldwide for his ability to provide a thought provoking keynote that gets to the heart of what reallty matters.

10 GREAT STRATEGIES FOR 2023
- Embrace the chaos: volatility is the new normal – run with it!
- Think transformation, not innovation: you can’t just chip away at the edges anymore – think and BE big!
- Lock in the lessons learned: we learned a lot during the pandemic – capitalize on it!
- Double down on flexibility: be agile, fast, responsive – the world doesn’t tolerate slow anymore!
- Master the timing: it’s not the trend that matters – it’s when and what you do with it that matters
- Accept inevitability: your business model is changing, forever – stop fighting it!
- Manage your FOMO: get away from hype – it never works for you
- Embed realism: instead, be realistic about your strategy – and get moving!
- Battle cynicism and doubt: don’t think it won’t work – make it work!
- Accept acceleration: because the future is fast, and you need to pick up the pace!
- Go further! Since every great list goes to 11 – Think BIG, start small, scale fast!
DO THIS WITH THIS KEYNOTE STRUCTURE FOR 2023
Futurist Jim Carroll has learned that the big issues that CEOs want their organizations to be thinking about as we finally get away from firefighting in the era of Covid and back to aligning to the future can be found in this type of keynote structure.
- It’s time to revisit the future!
- We need to think transformation, not innovation
- We must lock in the lessons we learned during Covid (fast teams, new collaboration, innovating at speed, etc)
- We choose not to participate in any recession/economic downturn by doubling down on growth
- We need to re-identify the real trends that provide opportunity going forward
- We need to strategize around these, and get moving FAST!
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 -> industries.jimcarroll.com


INVALUABLE, UNIQUE, CUSTOMIZED CEO CxO 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)
GLOBAL AUDIENCES
Jim Carroll has done a LOT of international work; he’s presented in Dubai, Sao Paolo, Budapest, Dubai, Sydney, Munich, Athens, Stuttgart, Prague, London, Paris, Brussels, Ghent, Stockholm, Zurich, Tokyo, Muscat, Mexico …. and in all of these situations, he has ensured that he is respectful of the audience in terms of pace, culture and local content, and translation requirements. Global experience matters.
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 such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George Bush and Magic Johnson, Anderson Cooper and Richard Branson, through representatives such as the Harry Walker Agency, Washington Speakers Bureau, and APB Speakers. Whether you are dealing with Jim directly or through one of his many global agents, you can rest assured that you are dealing with someone who has risen to the top of the global speaking industry.
The same agents who book some of the biggest names in the global speaking industry also regularly bring Jim Carroll into their clients, knowing that he delivers the unique insight that their world-class clients require.
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Daily Inspiration: AI & Business Strategy – “Explaining ai today is just like explaining the internet in 1993”
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AI and the Future of Construction
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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?

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