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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

Though Leadership at Speed : Aligning Your Team to the Era of Acceleration!

For over 25 years, I’ve challenged leadership teams at some of the most fascinating organizations in the world – such as NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Mercedes – to align to an era of new, fast disruptive change. I suspect that with faster change, they are going to need faster insight – and that’s the type of […]

Trend : The Future of Construction Post-Covid : It’s Now Built on a Foundation for Speed!

Virtual works. Yesterday, I delivered a concise, 15-minute keynote for eBuilder, the construction project management platform that is part of the Trimble technology infrastructure company. Attention spans are different online – people zone out faster. That’s why content that delivers short, sharp shocks of concise insight is so powerful. Give it a watch to understand […]

Trends. Strategies. Actions : Defining your Post-Covid Disruptive Plan!

How well prepared are you for your post-Covid future? Do you understand the new trends? Have you formulated a strategy? Have you developed an action plan? I’m in my spaceship, talking you through the issues!

Trend: The Future of Manufacturing Post-Covid – What Can You Expect?

The folks at Applied Software, a leading purveyor of manufacturing software, invited me in to be the launch person for their new Forging Manufacturing podcast. We had so much to talk about that they turned it into two episodes! You can access it here. I spend a lot of time providing trends oriented keynotes in […]

Video: Why Do Some People Close Their Minds to the Future?

CEOs have a challenge. They need to align their team to ‘what comes next’ in order to figure out ‘what to do about it.’ Based on a discussion around electric cars and battery technology the other day, I got to thinking about what is holding many people back. I hit the virtual broadcast studio to […]

Video: The Economic Implications of ‘Hesistancy’

Some will win Some will lose — Journey A clip from a recent podcast on the future of manufacturing, in which I talk about the real economic implications for regions with low vaccine uptake. Watch this trend!

Your Future into 2022 and Beyond: Why It Won’t be 2019 Anymore!

As part of my ‘acceleration gap‘ theme, I hit the virtual broadcast studio and filmed a concise piece on what world-class innovators learned throughout the pandemic – and what you are up against if you don’t change!

Our Universe Shifted : What’s Your Strategy for 2022, Post-Covid?

Based on the inquiries and bookings occurring here, it’s quite evident that world-class organizations are now beginning to align their strategy to a world of 2022 that will be dramatically different from what they knew in 2019. Yet, how different? What’s new? What’s disappeared? What new challenges and opportunities are on the horizon? What’s your plan? […]

The Future: If You Look Back at Today from 2030, What Will You See?

One of the challenges with the global pandemic is that so many companies were essentially involved in triage – fighting tooth and nail every day to align to sudden new business realities – that many forgot about the vast, disruptive change sweeping their industry. Two years ago to the day today, I was on stage […]

Custom Leadership Video Production – “World Class Innovators” & Reinventing Your Thought Leadership Process!

Are you a CEO, HR executive or strategy expert that needs to bring your team up to date with the big issues in your industry – yet you can’t quite yet bring your team together in person? And you’re sick of Zoom? How about something different – a customized leadership event series, professionally filmed, that […]

Trend : Workback Pushback – What happens when People DON’T Want to Go Back to the Office?

As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, what happens when people don’t want to back to the office? What happens with those who like their new space? Expect this question to dominate the world of HR, future trends, leadership, and all kinds of other topic areas in the months and […]

The Dark Underside of a Usually Optimistic Future: How Bad Could Things Get? Pretty Bad!

I bill myself as an “Optimistic Futurist.” My running joke when walking out on stage was – and is – “I can’t tell you that your future sucks, because then I wouldn’t get many repeat bookings.” But all kidding aside, I try to force myself each and every day into a positive frame of mind […]