From the Stage: The Era of Acceleration
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I opened with the most important thing to understand about the future: "it's probably going to happen faster than we think…
Government · Leadership
The Jobs of 2036: Nine Careers That Will Emerge as Risk, AI and Governance Are Reinvented
What happens to your profession when machines can make decisions, rewrite their own controls, execute regulations and audit themselves? A look ten years into the future…
Keynote Case Study: Verisk: The End Of Reality Changed The Fraud Game.
At the Verisk Insurance Fraud Management Summit in Houston, I explored how artificial intelligence, already a powerful fraud detection tool, was simultaneously creating…
Case Studies · Insurance
Keynote Case Study: YPO Gold Houston — Leadership in the Acceleration of AI
For YPO Gold Houston, Jim Carroll explored the acceleration of AI through a leadership lens. The session was designed for experienced executives looking to understand…
Case Studies · Professional Services & Associations
From Excuses to Execution
One mindset stalls. The other accelerates. Same person, same desk, completely different tomorrow. That's the pivot at the center of two new companion books distilling…
Mediocrity
How Innovation Happens — Lesson #20: Don't Be Motorola
I've been covering the link between future trends and innovation strategies for 30+ years. I went back through my blog posts, stretching to 2002, to dig out the nuggets…
How Innovation Happens · Innovation
From the Stage: There Are No Barriers to Change
This was one of my opening moments, set to music, and it captures what I believe about innovative organizations: "There are no barriers to change. There's only our…
Consumer & Food · Innovation
Keynote Case Study: Canadian Petrochemical Summit — The Era of Acceleration
The Canadian petrochemical industry operates at the intersection of some of the most complex forces in the global economy. Energy transition. Electrification…
Case Studies · Energy & Utilities
Keynote Case Study: KPMG Ireland: AI Megatrends. Opportunity And Disruption.
At KPMG Ireland’s leadership meeting in Dublin, I spoke to more than 1,100 professional staff on the impact of AI megatrends and the accelerating future. The message…
Case Studies · Professional Services & Associations
Leadership Insight: The Real Danger for Your Right Now Is Making a 2027 Decision With a 2017 Mental Model
Here's what I've come to realize with my last set of keynotes: the next great leadership crisis isn't simply resistance to change. It's the growing inability to…
Change · Disruption & Acceleration
The O-Ring Moment
A single physicist, a glass of ice water, and an O-ring explained why the Challenger disaster happened when the experts could not. Sometimes the simplest demonstration…
Being Unique
The 26 Principles, Revisited — #26: Escape Mediocrity — What I Said, and What’s Actually Happening
Part of my “26 Principles, Revisited” series — checking my own math, nine months into the year I predicted. Don't be average. Don't be boring. Be bold. Be fascinating!…
2026 Principles