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.
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.
Just over a year ago, Pfizer had me in to open a senior global leadership team meeting, with a talk that looked at the future of healthcare. This was the summary that I wrote about what I covered: The rapid evolution of genomic science, the acceleration of gene therapy, the virtualization of healthcare with medical […]
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Over a 25 year time span, I’ve been asked to provide my thoughts on the future of medicine and healthcare to a vast majority of the world’s major pharma companies, healthcare institutions, hospital groups, professional health associations and more. I can’t profess to be a medical expert by any stretch of the imagination, but my […]
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A leading franchise organization had me in for a virtual keynote on what the restaurant industry looks like as we enter in our eventual post-pandemic world. I’ve cut out the middle bit – it was an hour long, highly iterative presentation that the client was thrilled with – where I cover the major trends influencing […]
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A clip for my Notable Keynotes – Lessons in Leadership For Our Eventual Post-Pandemic Recovery series – about my keynote for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich. As a new late-in-life skier (I took it up at the age of 40!), there was a lot of links between my innovation message and my experience learning to […]
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Here’s a clip from the opening moments from my keynote for the Round Table Owners Association yesterday – it’s a long lasting and fast moving pizza franchise group based on the west coast. They had me in for a virtual keynote on the restaurant industry going forward – and I set the agenda early on! […]
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A video playlist to help you think about your future. Some people see the future and see a threat – innovators see the same future and see opportunity!
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“Santa rocks at innovation!” – Futurist Jim Carroll That was the focus of a show I filmed in the home broadcast studio The context? Every year around this time, I share a blog post I wrote way back in 2006: “Why Santa Rocks at Innovation!” This year, I decided to go one better from my […]
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I’ve been running a video series from my virtual broadcast studio, with insight gleaned from over 25 years on stages around the world speaking to organizations about innovation, change, the future and disruption. This story? It involves a presentation in London, England for these global food icons on fast paced retail change. There are powerful […]
Read MoreWhat’s your plan for 2021? It will be a long slog towards the future as the world works to slowly emerge from the pandemic, but there are signs of hope. Promising vaccine candidates, more political stability, less global uncertainty (hopefully), and perhaps a bit less craziness. And as I noted in my Daily Inspiration earlier […]
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Are you doing marginal things when you could be doing so much better? Dedicated to my wonderful sister Dorothy, who we lost to pancreatic cancer just over two years ago. Don’t live a monochromatic life – live in technicolor!
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A few clips from my virtual broadcast studio that will help to get you out of the indecision that is holding you back from pursuing your future!
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Now that we have some clarity on what comes next in the US political environment, I’ll soon be sharing my insight on the key trends, issues, opportunities that organizations will face into 2021. Learn more at https://2021.jimcarroll.com, and stay tuned for my blog for video and other updates on the trends that define our future!
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I wrote a blog post in 2017, based on a talk I gave to an overseas client. Trends: What Comes Next with the Decline of an Empire? I’m not quite sure how I will update it you yet – I’ll do that once our future becomes clear – but I did film this! You can’t […]
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My editorial commentary on the recent Connect conference in Orlando as the meetings and conference industry tries to figure out how to bring things back. All the safety protocols don’t mean a damn when people don’t respect them. That’s reality. The industry is dying. I’m in the business of reality. You might not like my […]
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I’ve been running running a video leadership series from my virtual home broadcast studio, with lessons learned from over 25 years on stage with some of the world’s largest organizations. In this one, I confront the issue of the reality of the oil/energy industry and the future of our economy in the context of our […]
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In the old world, I was scheduled to headline a major retail conference in the spring — the Path to Purchase Expo. All about how the world of consumer interaction and behaviour was changing…. In the lead up to it, I filmed a number of pre-event videos to get attendees thinking about how quickly the […]
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The global pandemic and Covid-19 has forever shifted your future. What are you doing to align to reality?There are powerful leadership lessons that I’ve found throughout my 25 year speaking career, and I’m sharing those lessons over time with short broadcasts from my virtual broadcast studio. In 2009, the future was a dark and dreary […]
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The global pandemic has taken us into a new era of massive challenges and significant opportunities. Every industry ‐ including healthcare ‐ is being redefined at blinding speed by new technology, collaborative global R&D, and accelerated science. A few weeks back, I took a look at the future of healthcare in the era of Covid-19 […]
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Global tech powerhouse Salesforce needed to open their segment within a global insurance conference – ITC Global 2020 – with concise, custom future trends insight on this industry. They found Futurist Jim Carroll, listened to what he had to say – and booked him for this project. Working with his sophisticated home broadcast studio and overseas video […]
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In November, I will be speaking – virtually, of course – at the P2PX Expo. It’s a major retail event that examines, in real time, issues surrounding consumer behaviour and interaction in the retail space. I was originally scheduled to do this in-person in Chicago in May, and obviously, that changed! But I was interviewed […]
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Remember the future? Visit this page for a nicely formatted version of this post, with a video for each industry discussed. That question was something you often thought about before the axis of our world shifted. Suddenly, with Covid-19 and the global pandemic, you stopped thinking about it because it seemed so far away, so […]
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So when do you innovate? Right now! For some reason, my sound configuration was off – but still a good story.
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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?’ This post will provide you some motivational guidance […]
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Yesterday’s show. The audio is kind of bad – it defaulted to the wrong mic – so I will probably re-film. But it was a fun set, so I’ll post it for now and replace it later.
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