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COVID-19 has transformed business forever.
Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.

YOUR POST-COVID FUTURE

What comes next, and what should you do about it? Explore these topic pages for detailed insight on what YOU need to be doing NEXT.

25 years on stage with global clients like Disney, NASA, and the World Bank, Jim Carroll excels at delivering customized insight, high-energy presentations, with full interactivity, onstage or from a state-of-the-art broadcast studio.

Trends : Your Post Covid Future

Are you thinking about your eventual post-pandemic future, and how you will align yourself to the opportunities that are unfolding right now? Or are you stuck in the here and now, unable and unwilling to comprehend what you need to do to align to ‘what comes next?’

Unlock Creativity. Drive Innovation. Achieve Growth!

Simply put, as we slowly emerge from Covid-19, we are entering a new and more complex economy. You thought you had time to prepare for a faster future – and then the explosive acceleration of all trends happened. Now what? I’ll show you the way!

Trends: The Future of Healthcare Post-Covid

As a futurist, it’s been fascinating watching the impact of Covid-19 and the global pandemic on many industries. The broad brushstrokes are that it has accelerated previous trends to a remarkable degree. So it is with healthcare – here’s a short clip that puts it into perspective. Add to this the trends that were already impacting […]

Trend : Faster FOMO : Why Dumb Trends Happen Faster Than Before, And What It Means for Your Real Future!

“Fear of Missing Out” – that’s the reality with many new hype trends! I take this apart in a video where I take apart Gamestop and meme-investing, NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens) and even Clubhouse — all of which are not really real trends to be concerned about. IMHO.

2021 – I’m Ready! Are You? Keynote Topics to Change Your Future!

As leaders begin to awaken from their pandemic-focused panic-based innovation strategies, they are starting to think about what comes next – and what they should do about it. Much of what you will be focused on will involve big leadership issues like these: how do you solidify the transformation that you put in place at […]

Video: “EU Vaccine Wars, the Suez Canal, and Coffee Problems – What Today’s Headlines Mean for Your World in 2025!”

So today, I decided to take apart a few of today’s news headlines to put into perspective a key reality: You often don’t appreciate the seismic scope of the shifts while you immersed in them. I reference a few other videos in the clip. Here’s one I did a few weeks ago: “what’s the future of […]

Everything Has Changed with the Pandemic : Have You? Rethinking Your Leadership Strategies Going Forward

So I spent two minutes going down my virtual rabbit hole with a clip challenging you to think about what you should be thinking about right now! As they say in Hollywood, “I had a little bit of fun in post!”

Ask a Futurist – “What Does Consumer Behaviour Look Like Post Covid?”

I hit my broadcast studio yesterday to take on the top question of the week sent in via my Ask.A.Futurist series. Send in your question here, and if I select it, I’ll take it on! This week’s question? Basically around the issue of how we might see consumer behavior change as a result of the […]

“Ask a Futurist” – What Trends Are you Watching?

What trends are worth watching as we start to enter an eventual weird, post-Covid economy? How do you distinguish real trends from fads? What really matters? I took these questions on in my “Ask a Futurist” video today. I covered a lot of stuff – fad trends like NFT (nonfungible tokens), Clubhouse and meme-investing which […]

Post-Pandemic Leadership – What’s Your Plan?

Relentless volatility. Ongoing uncertainty. Information ambiguity. Unreliability. A lack of clarity. Ongoing vulnerability. Welcome to your new future. What’s your plan? My ongoing research, trends tracking and client discussions tell me that we are faced with a future in which you now need to move at lightning speed, without really knowing what might come next. […]

An Instant Update: “What Comes Next? What Should You Do About It?”

I’m represented by many of the most prestigious and hard-working speakers bureaus in the world – the same folks who represent Barack and Michelle Obama, George W. Bush and Colin Powell, Richard Branson, and others. I regularly work to keep them up to date on things that are impacting our world. With that in mind, […]

Ask A Futurist – “What’s Going to Happen with Globalization?”

I recently established a new video series to address some of the many questions that come to me over the course of the week. I take a look at the questions that arrive and choose one or two a week that might provide some useful insight. One visitor asked “what’s the future of globalization? How […]

One Year Ago Today: I Spent 2 Hours in Shock. Then, I Started to Reinvent. Did You?

And so there it is! One year ago today, it was clear that my universe was shifting – my keynote life on stage in Las Vegas and elsewhere was coming to an end for quite some time, and that I had to reinvent FAST! Facebook and Cisco had just announced the cancellation of their annual […]