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Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Futurist Jim Carroll Speaks At Worldskills Leaders Forum

In August, I had the pleasure of attended the WorldSkills 2015 competition in São Paulo Brazil,...

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The Colloborative Mind: The Acceleration of Knowledge Through Crowd-Thinking

For years, I've spoken throughout my client base as a keynote speaker as to how the essence of...

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Avoiding the BIG MISS – Will Your Company and Industry Be the Same in 10 Years?

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Video: Meet Jim Carroll!

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Video: The Acceleration of Science Fiction, and What It Means to You!

Here's a video clip from my recent keynote for the Sporting & Fitness Industry Association...

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Keynote Case Study: APICS: 2,000 Supply Chain Leaders. The Future Of Retail Was Already Here.

For the APICS Annual Conference in Las Vegas, I addressed roughly 2,000 supply chain, logistics and...

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"Leaving Las Vegas" – But I’ll Be Back for More Keynotes!

I'm in the airport lounge at LAS. 3 keynotes in 13 days, all of them wildly successful. [caption...

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Keynote: APICS, Las Vegas – The Acceleration and Disruption of Retail

What is APICS? It's the leading organization involved in supply chain, logistics and operations...

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Keynote: Kiewit, Las Vegas – Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction and Infrastructure

Jim Carroll delivered a keynote for Kiewit in Las Vegas, in October 2015. With modular...

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Video: The Nomadic Workforce

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Video: World class innovators obsess over speed!

Some years back, I worked on a project for Deloitte, which resulted in the video, "What Do World...

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Keynote Update: "Hot Topics for September 2015!"

As a popular keynote speaker with a focus on future trends and innovation, I'm often called...

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Trend: Physician Recruitment in the Era of ‘Digital Intimacy’

My reputation as a speaker has been built on my ability to take on a very diverse range of very...

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Keynote: Practice Match, Las Vegas – Physician Recruitment in the Era of Digital Intimacy

I take on a LOT of highly customized keynotes - and that is why I am so different from so many...

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Keynote: Optima Health, Williamsburg, VA – Back to The Future in Healthcare, Today!

If you are a health care insurer, you'll probably want your leadership event to get away from the...

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Keynote Case Study: Sports & Fitness Industry Association: Some People Saw A Baseball Bat. I Saw The Future.

For the Sports & Fitness Industry Association conference in New Orleans, where Roger Goodell...

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Article and Video: 5 Things to Know About the Connected Future

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Trend: The Future of Sports & Fitness

I had the honor last week of being the opening keynote speaker for the Sporting & Fitness...

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Keynote: Sports & Fitness Industry Association, New Orleans – Interactive Technology, Disruption and the Future of Sports

It's always a fun event when Roger Goodell, the Commissioner of the NFL follows you on stage. I was...

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Article: Is the Auto Industry Ready for the World of 2030?

I was recently interviewed by the UK based Automotive Megatrends magazine, for a special report...

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Global economic turmoil? Time to innovate!

As the world wakes up on August 24, 2015, to news of turmoil with global stock markets, it's...

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Summary video: "WorldSkills Leaders forum São Paulo with Jim Carroll and Champions Trust"

Wrap up summary video from São Paulo WorldSkills 2015: "I'm here to inspire the audience about the...

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Keynote: World Skills International, San Paulo, Brazil: The Future of Careers and Knowledge

Worldskills is a massive global organization that focuses on accelerating young people into new...

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The miracle that is vision!

Two years ago this week, almost to the day, I walked in for the pre-24 hr checkup for a Lasik...

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Keynote: Arkansas Blue Cross – Healthcare 2020: Navigating Disruption in Health Insurance

Jim Carroll delivered a keynote for Arkansas Blue Cross in July 2015. As the ACA’s aftershocks,...

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Trend: The Emergence of the Vertical Farming Infrastructure Manager

At my recent opening keynote for the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, part...

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Trend: The Future of Government Technology Infrastructure

I was thrilled to have been invited to address the 2015 Graduating Class at the University of...

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Keynote: UNC School of Government, Chapel Hill – The Future of Governance in a Complex World

It's not often you get in to talk to the graduating class of a university program, but that's what...

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Potatoes, Fiji, and the Future!

If you are a futurist (like me), you always must be focused on the upside. Otherwise, you don't...

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What Will Golf Do With the Arrival of The Drones?

Sometime in the next few years, someone is going to arrive at a golf course, and have their entire...

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Keynote: Mondi, Prague, Czech Republic – Intelligent Packaging, Logistics and the Future of Retail

Mondi is a large scale European / Middle East / Africa / Asia packaging and paper company. And like...

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Keynote Case Study: Mondi — An Industrial Supplier Confronts the Acceleration of Its Customers’ Markets

At a global leadership meeting in Prague in June 2015, Jim Carroll challenged Mondi's executives...

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Why Prague Matters….

I grew up during the Cold War. I remember the era of atomic weapons as a threat above our...

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Keynote: Association of Private Sector Colleges & Universities, Denver : Education in the Era of Skills Acceleration

1/2 of the knowledge that a student gets in their very first year of a college or university...

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Keynote: HP Mexico, Miami – Key Customer CIO Summit

HP Mexico brought customers of key client companies to Miami for a CIO Summit. The overall agenda...

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Keynote Case Study: Patterson Veterinary — Veterinary Medicine Was Accelerating Beyond the Traditional Practice

Patterson Veterinary invited me to Dallas to speak with several hundred animal-care professionals...

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Keynote: Honeywell, Baltimore – How Skills Acceleration Defines the Future of Talent Management

Over the years, I've been invited in to speak to the HR departments of many organizations. In this...

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Keynote: Patterson Veterinary, Dallas, Texas: The Future of Veterinary Medicine

The acceleration of medical science, new diagnostic technology, advanced medical procedures, and...

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Trend Report: The Future of Trucks – Connected, Proactive and Data Driven

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Keynote: Farm Credit Bank of Texas, Dallas – The Future of Agriculture: Precision Farming Meets Rural Finance

Jim Carroll delivered a keynote for Farm Credit Bank of Texas in Dallas, in May 2015. With...

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