Futurist in Residence
Accelerating Your Future with Regular Interactive Leadership Insight Sessions
ACCELERATE YOUR TEAM
STAY AHEAD OF TRENDS!
ACCELERATE CREATIVITY
Regular bi-monthly future
insight sessions with the
world’s leading futurist.
Imagine if you could accelerate your way into the future, by clearly aligning future trends, your strategic thinking, and your internal engine of creativity.
You can do this by signing up for the Jim Carroll Futurist in Residence service!
Arrange for a six-month or one year term.
Futurist-in-Residence Jim Carroll
Your Regular, Personalized Future Insight Resource
You are well aware that your biggest challenge today is aligning to the acceleration of all trends. Your success depends on your ability to respond, adapt, align to what’s next. ‘
Staying on top of what’s next, deciphering the trends, and understanding reality are the new challenges that exist today
That’s why you need to arrange for Futurist Jim Carroll as your new ‘Futurist-in-Residence.’ It’s a new, unique, interactive online leadership consultation that will provide your team the ability to better align you to your disruptive, accelerating future by providing detailed, specific industry trends, once every two months, in a two-hour online session.
Join other leading organizations like NASA, Pfizer, The World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, Cisco, and even Disney, all of whom arranged for Jim’s insight on how to develop the iinsight and resilience to take on our faster, more complex world.
HOW IT WORKS
Every two months, you’ll bring your team into Jim’s interactive virtual broadcast studio for a hands-on, interactive future & creativity tour in which he will cover the issues around the latest trends you are aligning too, new observations on new trends that matter, and critical insight into innovation and creativity strategies that matter.
- THREE OR SIX BI-MONTHLY VIRTUAL SESSIONS: from Jim’s professional virtual broadcast studio
- 15 MINUTE ‘CURRENT TREND(S) OVERVIEW: a fast drill down into the trends you are monitoring
- 15 MINUTE ‘CREATIVITY & INNOVATION BOOSTER:’ the most recent insight on actions that matter
- 15-30 MINUTE TEAM Q&A: you will shift your thinking to the actions that really matter
- FOLLOW-UP Q&A VIA EMAIL: it is buried in your teams – discover how you can let it out
- ONE-ON-ONE INTERACTION: you will learn more about the role of fast-teams
- ONGOING DEVELOPMENT: you will discover how to better align to our faster future
- ACCELERATE INNOVATION: you will find ways to rethink your strategic pipeline
- COLLABORATE MORE: you will maximize the benefit of your internal idea factory
- DELIVER ON GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES: you shift from reactive defense to disruptive offense
WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE
- SEE DISRUPTIVE TRENDS: you will better understand the trends that will impact you in the near and longer-term
- FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITY: you will achieve clarity on the trends that really matter
- ALIGN TO DISRUPTION: you will shift your thinking to the actions that really matter
- UNLOCK CREATIVITY: it is buried in your teams – discover how you can let it out
- ACHIEVE AGILITY: you will learn more about the role of fast-teams
- ENHANCE YOUR SPEED: you will discover how to better align to our faster future
- ACCELERATE INNOVATION: you will find ways to rethink your strategic pipeline
- COLLABORATE MORE: you will maximize the benefit of your internal idea factory
- DELIVER ON GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES: you shift from reactive defense to disruptive offense
Why Jim Carroll?
The World’s Top Ranked Futurist, Innovation & Creativity Expert!
Jim’s leadership keynote will align you to your disruptive, accelerating future by providing detailed, specific industry trends – not motivational fluff. It is powerful leadership insight delivered in a compelling and motivational style!
No doubt, as you search for someone for your event, you have seen a zillion speakers. However, few of them will offer up the highly customized, heavily researched insight that Jim Carroll will offer you. It is hard to cut through the noise to find what you are looking for – how to align to a post-pandemic world that is faster, more complex, and demands resilience.
Don’t just take Jim’s word for it. Join other leading organizations like NASA, Pfizer, The World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, Cisco, and even Disney, all of whom arranged for Jim’s insight for a global leadership event or customer meeting – and came away empowered with new insight and resilience to take on our faster, more complex world.
futurist in residence
History has taught us that only 10% of organizations become breakthrough performers during a period of economic challenge. What will you do to be part of this elite group of aggressive survivors?
Futurist Jim Carroll has carefully studied the strategies they pursue, the concepts that drive them, and the actions they take to become a success in this complex new world.
It’s timely and critical insight! Recovery oriented CEO’s and senior executives understand that in addition to managing existing challenges, right now is the time to focus on strategies that align to our complex new reality in order to achieve growth and pursue opportunity. They know that they need to act quickly to establish an innovative mindset with their team in oder to get there quickly.
In this interactive keynote, Jim provides his unique insight on staying ahead in volatile times. A culture that has everyone thinking about what can be done going forward rather than looking back. A solutions oriented mindset in which people are thinking less about the problems that have occurred, and more about the innovative strategies that could be pursued. A leadership style and mindset that takes on volatility as a form of innovation oxygen, complexity as a foundation for action, uncertainty as the platform for disruption and ambiguity as the clarity for stifling aggressive indecision.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Jim doesn’t do canned work
- He encourages you to call him to discuss your event
- His first question for you will be “what do you need to accomplish?”
- He begins to customize his presentation based on those requirements
- He does this thorough extensive, customized research
- He combines this with insight from his continual trends tracking and analysishttps://jimcarroll.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=36790&action=edit&classic-editor#
- The insight is enhanced by 25 years of stage presentations and trends research
Leadership Insight
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Decoding Tomorrow: The Infinite Pivot Series – #24 “Always know that real progress is often invisible, boring, repetitive.”
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Decoding Tomorrow: The Infinite Pivot Series – #23 “Success will often depend on what you choose to ignore.”
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