Discover · Filtered archive
Leadership & Disruption · 2026
72 posts · page 1 of 6 · newest first
From the Stage: The Recycled Recession Headlines
Every downturn, I play a little game with my audience. Speaking to dental professionals, I read out a series of grim economic headlines: banks facing meltdown, a mortgage crisis…
From the Stage: The Jobs of 2036
At the IIA/ISACA GRC Conference in August 2026, I did something a little unusual. I invented a conference agenda for 2036 — complete with fictional sessions and speakers — and…
From the Stage: Cardboard People and Plasma People
At a conference of the people who design in-store displays, I went to the cocktail party the night before. On one side of the room, a group was deep in conversation about trends…
From the Stage: Who Owns the Future of Innovation?
Speaking to the banking technology community at Finastra, I described a period in which so many trends were arriving at once that industries were rewriting their own timelines for…
From the Stage: Legacy Doesn't Matter
Opening the EY National Tax Conference in Montreal, I described what I hear in boardrooms everywhere, from Disney to ESPN: "It is so overwhelming that increasingly legacy doesn't…
I’ve Spent 33 Years Watching Crazy Ideas Become Ordinary. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
The greatest mistake in predicting the future isn’t getting the technology wrong. It’s underestimating how quickly the impossible becomes routine.A few days ago, I found myself on…
Keynote Case Study: M200 — Managing the Disruptive Potential of Artificial Intelligence
For M200’s invitation-only audience of senior risk and legal managers from Fortune 500 and insurance organizations, Jim Carroll addressed the short- and long-term disruptive…
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. Because we…
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 comprehend how…
From the Stage: The Dive-In Movie
One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector and surround sound by the pool and we held a dive-in movie for the neighbourhood. I blogged about…
From the Stage: The Crazy Becomes Routine
In under forty seconds, this is my view of the period we're living through: "the imagination machine of people worldwide is turning on in a way which is simply unprecedented."…
I Was Told My Cyber Risk Keynote Was Too Alarmist. Then October 21 Happened.
Six cybersecurity stories. One extraordinary 24-hour period. And a rather uncomfortable validation of something I said on stage in August.
From the archive to your stage
Twenty years of thinking, built for your room.
Every keynote draws on this archive and on fresh research into your industry.