This iconic global brand held a global leadership meeting, bringing together its top hotel managers, senior executives and other for a two day retreat to focus on how to stay aligned to the fast changing travel industry. One of their executives had read my Masters in Business Imagination Manifesto years earlier, and thought the structure it provides as a roadmap for creativity and innovation would be ideal kickoff. I built a keynote around the topic – and you can have it too!
Computer Science Corporation, St. Andrews, Scotland – Aligning Your Business Model to High Velocity Change
I shared this event with Jimmy Wales, the Founder of Wikipedia. And to this day, Wikipedia editors still won’t list me. LOL. My keynote covered the acceleration of business models and disruptive trends for a group of CEO’s of clients of this global hi-tech firm. Obviously, given the location, there was a bit of a golf theme and a bit of golf!
US Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio – The Future of R&D
Well, thisi was an interesting audience! I was in Dayton, Ohio, opening the annual leadership meeting for the US Air Force Research Laboratory. In the room were senior military officers, scientists and researchers who control virtually all the research spending for the entire air force. Half the room was in uniform; it seemed the other half were some really ‘interesting’ looking folks with freaky hair. My talk focused on the future of innovative thinking – and how R&D was moving to the edges through crowd based innovation, idea factories and collaboration machines.
Ernst Young, Orlando – Healthcare Practice Client Summit
As one of the largest professional services firms, E&Y is in the midst of assisting organizations to align themselves to fast paced change. Once a year they bring together their key clients in the healthcare space – CEO’s and CxO’s of hospitals, pharma companies, biotech organizations and many more. Someone saw me outline my thoughts on the future of healthcare at the World Pharma Congress a few months earlier, and decided that I would be the perfect match to get them thinking about what comes next in this industry, with a particular focus on the science, technology and other trends redefining the healthcare opportunity.
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NASA, Houston – Transformational Leadership During a Time of Significant Transition
What do you do when you are the worlds leading space organization, and things are in a bit of a funk? Funding cutbacks, the cancellation of missions and programs, You engage a futurist to come in for a talk on the issue of ‘transformational leadership’ and what great leaders do to redefine their future in an era of significant transition. And NASA found me, and I found myself in a room giving a dinner talk to a group that included astronauts, launch directors, (literally) rocket engineers and more. One thing I did – in order to take them into the future,I took them back into their past to demonstrate to them all the other times that they faced similar situations, rose to the challenge, and accelerated to the future! Read the blog post which summarized their reaction. One of the highlights of my 25 year speaking career!
PGA of America, Boston – Annual General Meeting Keynote
What do you do when you are the world’s largest working sports organization – representing the hard working teaching pros you find at the local golf course – and you want to focus on the trends that might help to define future growth of the game? You reach out to a futurist to give you insight into those trends, and how to align yourself to them with an innovative and creative mindset. Jim Remy, the President of the PGA, found me, and invited me in to address their annual general meeting. As a golfer, this was a huge career highlight – learn more about what I covered, and the specific golf oriented leadership keynote I offer at jimcarroll.golf
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