Insight Index - Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

JIM’S INSIGHTS

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.

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Leadership and Volatility: It's What You Do Right Now That Matters

History teaches us that those who move forward, fast, during periods of relentless uncertainty, are those who win. Futurist Jim Carroll on stage in London,…

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Daily Inspiration: "The future of work? It's the skills you don't know about that you need to be planning for!"

"The future of work? It's the skills you don't know about that you need to be planning for!" - Futurist Jim Carroll What can the…

Daily Inspiration: "If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you're doing it all wrong!"

"If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you're doing it all wrong!" - Futurist Jim Carroll History has taught…

Video: Achieving Optimism - Learning from the Two Different Types of Farmers!

One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the 'two types of framers.' Which one…

Keynote Topics 2023: Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Megatrends, Leadership and Acceleration

I just sent out my February update to all my speaker bureau partners - I'm represented by most of the major ones in the world…

Daily Inspiration: "If only the paranoid survive, it's also true that it's the chameleons who will thrive!"

The BIG Future: "Regenerative Medicine" and a New Era of Healthcare Science

We might live longer. We will see the reduction, elimination, or perhaps eradication of diseases. We'll fix broken bones with lab-grown materials. We will grow…

10 Great Strategies for 2023 - What are the CEOs Thinking About?

I just finished the final post in my series, "23 Trends for 2023." As I write in the intro: The future is a vast and…

23 Trends for 2023 : #18 The Battle for Reality

We live in perilous, scary times - there are people around you who actually believe the wild conspiracies found in this image below. (And actually,…

Daily Inspiration: "Negative people seem to believe they can drag you down and destroy your optimism. Prove them wrong!"

"Negative people seem to believe they can drag you down and destroy your optimism. Prove them wrong!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Something remarkable has been happening…

23 Trends for 2023 : #14 Reimagining and Reinventing

If what you sell, who you sell it to, how you sell it, and essentially, what it actually is - you've got to change things.…

23 Trends for 2023 : #13 Peak Carbon

We all know the phrase - insanity is doing the same thing and over again and expecting a different result each time. It doesn't happen.…

23 Trends for 2023: #11 The Massive Velocity of A.I.

There can't be a bigger story in tech this year - other than the self-inflicted destruction of many aspects of the tech sector through hubris,…

23 Trends for 2023: #8 - Knowledge Velocity

It used to be about what you know. Now it's not only about what you know, but how fast you need to know it! And…

23 Trends for 2023: #7 - Crazy ideas go mainstream

The pace of new ideas, innovations, concepts, scientific discoveries, and product breakthroughs is occurring at such a pace that the need to align to a…

Into 2023: What's Your Plan if Twitter Melts Down (or Does not?)

You would have had to be living under a rock for the last month to miss all the drama around Elon Musk and his purchase…

23 Trends for 2023: #6 - Opting Out

There might be a recession in 2023. Or, maybe not! But whatever happens, it's pretty certain that an increasing number of CEOs are deciding that…

Daily Inspiration: "Conventional wisdom is often wrong. When in doubt, opt out!"

"Conventional wisdom is often wrong. When in doubt, opt out!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Today's inspiration comes directly from Trend 6 of my "23 Trends…

23 Trends for 2023: Trend #1 - "Techno-skepticism" and Retiming The Future

It hasn't been a great year for tech. Things went too far. And so the tech collapse in 2022 was entirely predictable. This leads to…

Daily Inspiration: “Navigating 2022 – What to expect when you are always expecting the unexpected!”

“Navigating 2022 – What to expect when you are always expecting the unexpected!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Maybe I should have put together another book! After all, look at where we find ourselves today! If I were to write one right now, it would be how to navigate through uncertainty, complexity, and relentless volatility. But perhaps by […]

Accelerating Insight – What’s Next for Your Industry?

Over the years, I’ve become a widely recognized industry expert – in multiple different industries! Most of my keynotes for the last fifteen years have been for global Fortune 1000 companies – corporate offsites led by a CEO or other CxO. How broad is my expertise? I just sent a list to a potential client […]

Daily Inspiration: “The acceleration of uncertainty should not decelerate your initiative!”

“The acceleration of uncertainty should not decelerate your initiative!” – Futurist Jim Carroll How quickly our future can change! Just a week ago, it seems, the world was in a different place. Russia was on the doorstep of the Ukrainian border, threatening the most ill-advised, illegal invasion since World War 2 – yet many of […]

Daily Inspiration: “Learn more stuff. Empty minds bring empty results!”

“Learn more stuff. Empty minds bring empty results!” – Futurist Jim Carroll One of my favorite trends I’ve covered for a long time has been the issue of knowledge. For example, back in 2011, I observed that the volume of scientific knowledge was increasing exponentially: …. the rate of discovery based on research into gene […]

Video: Achieving Optimism – Learning from the Two Different Types of Farmers!

One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the ‘two types of framers.’ Which one are you? Check the list below. And watch this short clip from one of my last in-person keynotes just before Covid. There’s what we might call the stuck-skeptics, who have […]

10 Things That Are True About the Future (It’s fast, it’s everywhere, and you are likely already out of date!)

Clearly the rate of change – whether with business models, product life-cycles, skills and knowledge – is speeding up. With such change, there’s a lot of uncertainty within many industries as to what to do next: a senior executive of one client commented to me from his perspective, “…entities are engaged in survival tactics because […]

Daily Inspiration: “At this very moment, you are surrounded by ‘modern things’ that will become ‘things from the olden days’ during your lifetime!

“At this very moment, you are surrounded by ‘modern things’ that will become ‘things from the olden days’ during your lifetime!” – Futurist Jim Carroll We live in the era of acceleration – and with that, things become a part of our life and then disappear faster than ever before. The knowledge we have at […]

Daily Inspiration: “Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!”

“Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Way back in 2005, I wrote a blog post that summarized much of what I had been talking about in the previous year as the key trends defining the future of agriculture. Little did I know that search engines would […]

22 Trends. 22 Minutes. 22 Opportunities for 2022 : A Virtual Leadership Kickstart for 2022!

I just shared this update with my many speaker bureau partners. It might provide some food for thought for you too! Good morning! It seems that just while we were looking at 2022 with a wary eye of optimism, the sudden arrival of Omicron can pull us back in to, well, non-optimism! Our industry and […]

Daily Inspiration: “Your long-standing traditions are likely the very enemy of your efforts at innovation!”

“Your long-standing traditions are likely the very enemy of your efforts at innovation!” – Futurist Jim Carroll There are certain moments in your career when you know you’ve hit the perfect shot. That’s how I felt when I walked off stage after delivering the opening keynote for the 94th annual general meeting of the PGA […]

Daily Inspiration: “World class innovators? They’re built for speed, structured for acceleration!”

“World class innovators? They’re built for speed, structured for acceleration!” – Futurist Jim Carroll This message from 2019 looks very predictive today in light of what organizations had to do to align to the speed of change demanded by the global pandemic. And yet, that’s been the essence of my message for well over a […]

Daily Inspiration: “The fast future has got you down? Follow the math … Act accordingly!”

“The fast future has got you down? Follow the math! Start with 3-6-9-12: baseline your reality 3, 6, 9, and 12 months out. Add in 1-2-5-10: figure out what trends will challenge you 1, 2, 5, and 10 years from now! Act accordingly!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Sometimes, you just need to follow the traffic! […]

Daily Inspiration: “You’ll never solve a big problem with small thinking!”

“You’ll never solve a big problem with small thinking!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Going forward, one of the most significant challenges of our time will have to do with senior care. With that in mind, big thinking was the core of my message on stage six years ago (yesterday) for two back-to-back talks in Nashville for […]

Reinvention: The Critical Element in Your Disruptive Business Strategy

At some point in time, if it has not yet happened, you’ll come to realize that the future that you thought you had no longer exists, and that you need to do something new. And if you are a business organization, that realization brings you the reality that you need to reinvent your revenue. This […]

Daily Inspiration: “Your ability to define a different reality is what will truly define your future!”

“Your ability to define a different reality is what will truly define your future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll The era of oil is over! Everyone knows this to be true – we’ve got so much momentum with renewables, energy microgrids, electric vehicles, and battery storage technology, that essentially the dominance of carbon-based energy is drawing […]

Trend: The (Negative) Economic Implications of Vaccine Hesitancy

Back in 2017, I wrote what turned out to be quite the prescient blog post: Trend: The Emerging Healthcare Reality Crisis. Here’s what I wrote: Clearly there are vast sections of the population today who do not believe in science. They don’t believe in facts. They don’t believe in much other than what they want […]

Daily Inspiration: “Why would you spend so much time defending a past which no longer exists?”

“Why would you spend so much time defending a past which no longer exists?” – Futurist Jim Carroll We are surrounded by people who defend the indefensible, support the unsupportable, cling to the unclingable. It’s weird. It also can certainly do a lot of damage when their defense turns into destruction. This post originally started […]

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!

Daily Inspiration: “It’s the jobs that do not yet exist that you really need to prepare for!”

“It’s the jobs that do not yet exist that you really need to prepare for!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s not often in this line of work that you get booked by the same client on the exact same day just a few years apart! I guess they liked my message! That was the case […]

Daily Inspiration: “Build for your future, not your past!”

“Build for your future, not your past!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s easy to cling to yesterday – after all, that’s all you know! But that won’t get you anywhere, because your only certainty is that your tomorrow’s are going to be vastly different than your yesterday’s – and the only moment that you have […]

Daily Inspiration: “Do you mean to tell me that you don’t believe that widespread mental instability and mass delusion won’t be a huge workforce problem in your future?”

“Do you mean to tell me that you don’t believe that widespread mental instability and mass delusion won’t be a huge workforce problem in your future?” – Futurist Jim Carroll The quiet part should be said out loud: one of the biggest problems that companies will have to manage in the future is how to […]

Daily Inspiration: “A slow start doesn’t mean a lost race when you’ve got acceleration on your side!”

“A slow start doesn’t mean a lost race when you’ve got acceleration on your side!” – Futurist Jim Carroll (Graph via @bcshaffer – Blake Shaffer) In my home country of Canada today, it’s a holiday known as Victoria Day, aka “May Two-Four” for those who choose to celebrate this unofficial start to summer with a […]

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 […]

The Era of Acceleration? It Just Got Faster!

Here’s a clip where I’m on stage a few years back, at an event where the CEO and his team are fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. I’m there to set the context for the next several days with a talk about the future. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide […]