Custom Corporate Projects
Global Organizations Engage Futurist Jim Carroll For Custom Video, Audio and Written Content
GLOBAL CORPORATE CLIENTS
From custom video production to customized articles, and podcasts to books, Futurist Jim Carroll has earned the trust of corporate partners worldwide with his ability to share his insight beyond the stage.
It takes a lot for a corporate organization to trust its logo and reputation to a new partner; there is always an army of lawyers, a full division of marketing executives, and a full battalion of public relations executives who stand on guard for the sanctity of the corporate name.
That’s why they’ve engaged Futurist Jim Carroll for these projects – over a 30-year period, he has earned a reputation, not only for his insight but for his ability to work closely with them as a trusted partner.
Here’s a sample of some of this work.
PG&E
Video: The Future of Energy
The CEO of this massive US west coast energy utility needed to get across to his team the fact that the industry was being disrupted by the emergence of micro-grids, the acceleration of battery technology and renewables, and local community energy grids.
He discovered Futurist Jim Carroll, and engaged him, with a professional film crew, to film “Could The Energy Industry Be MP3’d?”, a fast-moving, hard-hitting video that brought some disruptive ‘shock and awe’ to his team – and to the industry.
Deloitte South Africa
Video: World-Class Innovation
The organization wanted to open its annual ‘best in practice’ HR awards show with a hard-hitting message of world-class excellence.
They engaged Futurist Jim Carroll to provide a highly customized, fast-action video, “What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don’t Do?”
With the ground filming around Ontario, Canada done by a local production company, Riverbank Pictures, the final product was edited and produced to perfection by South Africa’s FogHound Studios, providing a world-class global production.
VISA
Book: Sellling Online
Years before e-commerce became a staple of our lives, accelerated by the lockdowns of the global pandemic, Jim Carroll and his partner Rick Broadhead wrote a seminal work about the topic in their book, “Selling Online: How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant”
Released in 1999, the book caught the attention of a senior VP at VISA USA, who commissioned a custom print of 60,000 copies, with some custom content provided by VISA. The book was widely publicized by VISA in corporarte mailings, PR campaigns and advertisements, and was provided to leading merchants as a pathway for them to follow to begin understanding and exploring this complex new world of online commerce.
Wall Street Journal
Custom Video Production
The organization realized that custom video production would be a critical media asset in our complex new world of hyper-information.
With that in mind, the nascent Wall Street Journal Custom Content Division engaged Futurist Jim Carroll for a panel discussion, which then became the foundation for a follow-up media campaign in print, radio, and TV, based on Jim’s key mantra for innovation success: “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast!“
GE Energy
Custom Article Series
This global energy icon engaged Jim to write a series of articles about emerging energy issues for distribution to their global customer base – industrial and commercial energy utilities and other organizations.
The series took on a broad range of topics involving renewables, including solar and wind technologies, emerging smart grid technologies, electric vehicle tech, and more.
Akzo Nobel
Custom Article
This Dutch multinational company, which creates paints and performance coatings for both industry and consumers worldwide, and is headquartered in Amsterdam, found Jim Carrol to be a perfect partner for a feature article about the future.
Running in their global magazine, his insight was shared to over 100,000 key customers worldwide with an inspiring call to align to tommorrow, today,.
You can read the article, in PDF format, here.
ABB Robotics (Asia Bovery Brown)
Customized Podcast
The world of robotics and manufacturing is moving fast, and the organization wanted to provide some key trends insight for its podcast aimed at global manufacturing executives.
They engaged Futurist Jim Carroll for this purpose, introducing his thoguhts into the first episode of tehir second season about the Fatory of the Future.
Learn more here.
IBM
Custom Video:
The Family Guide to the Internet
Every career involves a momentary embarrassment, a minor moment in time that you would like to recall!
This video is that moment -filmed in 1994, in the early days of the Internet, the video was aimed at the consumer marketplace.
It takes a lot for one of the world’s most prestigious technology companies to get involved in any type of cooperative project, and for them to place their logo on a VHS tape nonetheless is indicative of the trust they placed in the ‘star’ of this production, Jim Carroll.
His acting career did not last long.
CUSTOM CONTENT PRODUCTION
Futurist Jim Carroll can assist you with your custom content needs, from video, to audio, to print.
He has hosted 3 national radio shows in Canada, has been interviewed thousands of time on TV, radio and print. His home office features a state of the art virtual broadcast studio whcih can be used for video production with 3 green screen camera angles which can be chroma’d out for your own post-production requirements.
A WORLD-CLASS VIRTUAL STUDIO!
TECH DETAILS
Virtual insight from a sophisticated studio setup:
- BROADCAST QUALITY VIDEO: 3 Canon M200 DSLR’s with professional quality wide-angle lenses with multiple camera angles
- BROADCAST QUALITY AUDIO: Sennheiser XSW-3D wireless lavaliere microphone, supplemented by 2 Hotec wireless lapel mics
- PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING SETUP: 7 upper stage rack lights supplemented by 3 floor lights, plus 2 overhead flood lights and side face lamps ensure a properly lit studio scene
- CONFIDENCE ‘STAGE MONITORS’: allowing Jim to monitor and control the show flow live
- 4 MACINTOSH IMAC/MACBOOK PRO WITH ECamm.Live and NDI Integration: the most sophisticated OS/X production platform, combined with integration with other platforms for screen sharing, interactive polls, Q&A, and resource offloading
- STREAM LABS STREAMDECK and LOGITECH STAGE REMOTE: pushbutton and remote advance show and flow control
- FULL GREEN SCREEN with OVER 500+ VIRTUAL STAGE SETS: professionally produced 3d virtual stage sets provides for professional broadcast quality productions
- STOCK IMAGE, AUDIO AND VIDEO LIBRARY: providing context and scene-specific content
- APPLE MOTION GRAPHICS: for special effects and titling
- GIGABIT ETHERNET: 1000MBS DOWN, 30MBS UP allowing for 4K broadcast distribution
- RESTREAM INTEGRATION: for simultaneous distribution to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook Live, Twitter, and other platforms, including custom RTMP destinations
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