For Leadership Teams
“Your leadership team understands change. My job is to help it move: a heavily researched view of what changes next in your sector, and a practical playbook for acting on it.”
– Jim Carroll
Decision Clarity for Leadership Teams
Leaders don’t need more predictions. They need decision clarity.
That is what CEOs and senior executives book Jim Carroll for: a commissioned strategic-foresight briefing, delivered with the energy and accessibility of a keynote, at the meetings where strategy gets set.
Researched. 25–50+ hours of fresh research into your sector, plus calls with your team before the event.
Relevant. Thirty years of pattern recognition, applied to your industry, your strategy and the goal you set for the meeting.
Actionable. Your team leaves with a clear view of what changes next and what to do about it.
Every keynote title is written for the room. A sampling:
- “AI Megatrends: Opportunity and Disruption” for KPMG Ireland, Dublin
- “The Role of AI in Construction and Infrastructure” for Kiewit Corporation, Toronto
- “Reinvention and Transformation: An Innovation Voyage” for CF Industries, Chicago
- “The Transformation of Infrastructure: Energy, Water, Telecom, Roads and Buildings” for Black & Veatch, Kansas City
- “The Disruption of the Energy Industry” for Siemens Energy
- “The Future of Pharma and Healthcare” for Pfizer in Paris, six months before Covid
- “The Future of the Space Industry” for NASA, twice, in Houston and at the Goddard Space Flight Center
- “The Future of Golf in a Hyperconnected World” for the PGA of America, in Boston and Orlando
- “The Era of Hyperconnected Medicine” for PerkinElmer
- “Consumers, Food and Retail Post-Covid” for Rich Products
- “The Next 100 Years in Agriculture and Farming” for the Wilbur-Ellis 100th-anniversary CEO meeting
- “Innovation in the World of Upside-Down Trends” for the Walt Disney Company in Hollywood
- “Self-Driving Cars, Electric Vehicles and the Sharing Economy” for Mercedes-Benz in Detroit
- “The Acceleration of Legal Risk in the Era of Disruption” for the Eversheds Sutherland global partner meeting
- “The Acceleration of Personalized Medicine in the Era of Exponential Genomics” for Genentech
- “The Future Impact of the Internet of Things” for Whirlpool / Maytag, Chicago
- “The Future of Forward-Oriented Insurance” for New York Life, New York
- “Prognostic Diagnostics, Self-Driving and the Future of Trucks” for Volvo / Mack Trucks, Dallas
- “Transitioning Industrial Markets” for General Dynamics / Northrop Grumman, Charlotte
- “The Future and the Next Economy” for BlackRock
- “The Future of Energy Utilities: Connected, Intelligent, Localized” for Itron
2027 Brief · Board & trustee leadership
The future looks different from the board table.
A board does not need another technology lecture. It needs to know which assumptions are expiring, which questions it should be asking and where judgment matters most. That is why Jim builds the keynote around the decisions the people in the room are actually responsible for.
Started with a goal, not a speaker
Six Recent Leadership Engagements
Each began with a CEO or senior team that had a specific moment to address: a transformation, a spin-off, a major AI investment.
2024 · Dublin
KPMG Ireland
KPMG was investing $200 million in an AI hub in its Dublin office. For its leadership meeting, it wanted the longer-term view: the disruptive opportunities ahead. Jim delivered AI Megatrends to about 1,100 professional staff.
2024 · Charlotte
ASSA ABLOY
Jim returned to the company’s global leadership summit as manufacturing got real about AI.
2023 · Chicago
CF Industries
The company was on a transformation voyage, aligning to renewables and a shifting energy market. Its CEO-level leadership meeting needed a closing keynote on the trends that matter and the innovation culture to match bold goals.
2023 · Toronto
Kiewit Corporation
Senior leadership of a global infrastructure company wanted to understand its AI-enabled future, and the big bets it would require.
2022 · Kansas City
Black & Veatch
The CEO wanted help delivering his message about the journey to a new and different future, to 300 senior executives at their first in-person gathering after Covid.
2021 · Orlando
Siemens Energy
The CEO of a newly spun-off company asked Jim for an opening keynote on the future of the energy industry at its global leadership meeting.
Earlier leadership work includes NASA (twice), Disney, Pfizer, Mercedes-Benz, New York Life, BlackRock and the PGA of America. See all case studies →
Three Ways to Work With Your Leadership Team
The future is a leadership issue. The strategic advantage is recognizing which assumptions have expired, building capacity to experiment, and moving fast enough to matter.
- A keynote at your leadership meeting or offsite. An opening or closing keynote built around your strategy, your sector and the goal you set for the meeting, from a global team of hundreds to a single business unit.
- An executive session. A concise, detailed briefing for a CEO and a small senior group; one client booked Jim for one hour with eight senior executives.
- Futurist in Residence. Bi-monthly two-hour online sessions over six months or a year, keeping your team current on the trends that matter. Learn more
Every format starts with the same question: what do you need to accomplish? See all formats →
Fees on request. Booking through a bureau or direct costs the same. Jim reads and answers every inquiry personally, usually the same day.
Case Study
Black & Veatch
CEO Leadership Meeting, Kansas City
The CEO of this global infrastructure company (energy, water, telecom, roads, bridges and more) knew that the future of infrastructure would be smart, connected and intelligent, built with new methods, advanced materials and constant innovation. He asked Jim to help deliver his message about the journey the organization had to make to align with that future.
The audience: his global team of 300 senior executives, at their first in-person gathering after Covid. The message: disrupt before you are disrupted. The future requires transformation, not just innovation.
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Case Study
Pfizer, Paris, France
The Acceleration of Healthcare
Genomic science, gene therapy, connected medical devices, a changing relationship between patients and doctors, an explosion in medical knowledge: healthcare is going through more change than it has seen in 100 years.
Pfizer brought a global team together to examine the issues and opportunities, and asked Jim for a keynote that would take them through the trends that could define their future.
Case Study
Legrand, Connecticut
Manufacturing: Trends and Disruption
Legrand’s North American leadership meeting is where the CEO and his team fine-tune strategy and plans for the year ahead. The company manufactures a wide range of components and cabling for the global tech industry.
Jim’s keynote looked at the trends creating opportunity in manufacturing: the factory of the future, the Internet of Things, digitization, 3D printing, accelerated supply chains and more.
Thirty Years of Pattern Recognition
30+ years. 2,000+ keynotes. More than 2 million people on five continents, at events for NASA, Disney, Volvo, the PGA of America, the World Bank and Pfizer. No two presentations have ever been the same.
The video is a flashback to Jim’s 2001 highlight reel. Three decades of watching trends play out is what lets him tell your leadership team which ones matter now.
The Futurist Who Knows Your Industry
Jim has built keynotes for leadership teams in nearly every sector: energy and utilities, healthcare and pharma, manufacturing, agriculture, insurance and financial services, construction and infrastructure, technology and more.
That depth is why leadership teams trust him with their most important meetings. Explore the industries →
From Boardroom to Main Stage
Small leadership meetings, global summits, key customer events, audiences of 7,000: Jim has done them all.
The preparation is the same for each: research into your industry and close alignment with what you need the meeting to accomplish.
Concise Industry Insight
Leaders are short on time. Jim knows how to distill complex trends into clear, concise insight they can act on.
This short clip on the future of manufacturing is one example of the depth he brings to each industry.
Research That Never Stops
Jim’s research into the trends that matter is continuous, so the insight your leadership team hears is current.
His “Era of Acceleration” overview is one of many videos he has filmed to help leaders make sense of a fast-moving world. For teams that want that insight all year: Futurist in Residence →
Pre-Event Videos
Many clients add a short, professionally produced video before the event. It builds anticipation and frames the key message of the meeting before Jim walks on stage. A few examples:
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