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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.

All about growth!

Decoding Tomorrow: Mastering 2026 – #24 Trust Capital: "In an era of synthetic perfection, your flaws are now the ultimate watermark of your authenticity."

"In an era of synthetic perfection, your flaws are now the ultimate watermark of your authenticity." - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm back! And we're on…

Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration – “There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!"

"There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!" = Futurist Jim Carroll One of my fellow futurists recently included…

Daily Inspiration: The Economy and Innovation - "Markets are not trends!"

"Markets are not trends!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Some wild headlines yesterday: In that context, I shared this image with one of my sons yesterday;…

Daily Inspiration: Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics - "Bring on tomorrow!"

"Bring on tomorrow!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Like the sign says. Bring on tomorrow - because if you don't, your tomorrow might not work out…

Daily Inspiration: Leadership and Growth - "Real leaders don't try to cost cut their way into the future! (They reinvent!)"

"Real leaders don't try to cost cut their way into the future! (They reinvent!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll Really? Are we going to do this…

Daily Inspiration: Industry Transformation - "A bold future abhors a timid mind!"

"A bold future abhors a timid mind!" - Futurist Jim Carroll The old automotive industry is disappearing; a new one is being born. The old…

Daily Inspiration: Economic Growth - "At what point will you realize you've wasted time preparing for an economic downturn that never happened?"

"At what point will you realize you've wasted time preparing for an economic downturn that never happened?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Have you noticed that…

Daily Inspiration: Business Transformation - "At some moment in time, you will come to realize that the future you thought had no longer exists!"

"At some moment in time, you will come to realize that the future you thought had no longer exists!" - Futurist Jim Carroll If you…

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.…

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 […]

Video: The Future is Going to Happen Faster Than You Think!

On this day, in 2018. And if you think about it, the future was pretty slow back then. In the olden days, pre-Covid, before the world accelerated, and the Acceleration Gap became your biggest challenge going forward!

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Pre-pandemic, CEOs and organizations were dealing with a world of business model disruption, the acceleration of technology, the […]

Daily Inspiration: “A simple fact: those who invest in the future, get to the future!”

“A simple fact: those who invest in the future, get to the future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s talk infrastructure! After all, it seems a lot of people are! The world seems to be broken down into two groups of people: those who believe it’s a good idea to invest in the reality and opportunities […]

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!

10 Great Words for 2021 : Reinvention and Other Opportunities for Growth!

10 great words for 2021! It’s a good way to think about how you might reinvent yourself for what will truly be an interesting year! Here’s the genesis of the idea. Way back in 2005, I wrote a blog post, “10 Great Words for 2006“, that outlined my thoughts on how to align to an accelerating […]

Reinventing Your Reality: Stories from the Studio On Personal Growth and the Future – My Interview with Santa Claus!

“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 […]

Daily Inspiration: “The decisions you make at this very moment can lead you to a case of post-traumatic growth syndrome! Think about that – and act accordingly!”

“The decisions you make at this very moment can lead you to a case of post-traumatic growth syndrome! Think about that – and act accordingly!” – Futurist Jim Carroll A shoutout to Harry Whitbread, the Managing Director LSB America at London Speaker Bureau, one of many agencies who’ve put my name in front of global clients […]

Leadership Keynote: 9 Things You Need To Do Right Now: Rediscovering Growth, Opportunity and the Future When Volatility is the New Normal!

Speaker bureau, event and meeting planner friends – leadership folks – clients…. My 2020-21 Recession keynote topic was just published. “9 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Rediscovering Growth, Opportunity and the Future When Volatility is the New Normal!” Right now, it’s crisis mode. But I want you to know I’M READY when your […]

Daily Inspiration: “Think growth! Think optimism! Think like a farmer!”

“Think growth! Think optimism! Think like a farmer!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Obviously my keynote this morning is for the agricultural industry – I’m headlining the DTN Ag Summit in Chicago for about 700 farmers, agricultural specialists, ag companies and crop consultants. It’s a fascinating industry – my theme is ‘Agriculture 2045”, or what the industry […]

Keynote: Mississippi Economic Development Council, Biloxi, MI – Where’s the Growth? Economic Development in Our Faster Future!

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of talks for groups of economic developers on the overall theme, “Where’s the growth?” I cover a wide variety of trends that are driving future economic growth, both from a US-centric but also a global perspective. Regions need to work harder to draw industry and to do that, […]

Keynote: Town of Blue Mountains Chamber of Commerce, Ontario : Growth Opportunities in the Next Economy

Last but not least – this one was a huge amount of fun – it’s the community where my ski chalet is located, 2 hours north of Toronto, Ontario! They were having their AGM – I wasn’t booked that particular date – and agreed to come in and speak about the global trends that will […]

Keynote: Global Economic Growth Trends, Nevada Economic Development Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sadly, one week before the horrific Las Vegas shootings, I spoke at the University of Nevada Las Vegas for economic development officials from across the state, on key economic opportunist beyond the tourism and gaming sector. It covered issues related to renewables and energy, self driving cars and accelerating industries, workforce and skills issues and […]

Daily Inspiration: “Some people see the future and see a threat. Innovators see the same future and see an opportunity. Who do you choose to be, and what will you do to align yourself to an era of growth?”

“Some people see a trend and see a threat. Innovators see the same trend and see an opportunity!” – Futurist Jim Carroll

Thinking Growth: Where’s the Growth? It’s Everywhere

I’m cleaning out some old research files, and came across this simple set of statistics: between now and 2050, we will move from 7 to 10 billion people; we need 70% more food, 50% more water, and 50% more fuel. People always ask me, ‘where are the emerging opportunities for innovation?” Those simple statistics define […]

The “tinkering economy,” global growth and why the Mark 2 Hovercraft matters!

I’m often writing and speaking about real trends that matter. Not fads, or social-media driven hot-Youtube videos. Real, substantive trends which will provide for long term transformation of industries and skills. Business model disruption. The rapid emergence of new competitors. Stuff like that. Back in 2012, in my end of year post, “Trending in 2012: […]

Iowa Farmer Today on Jim Carroll: “Future of ag is focused on growth”

Future of ag is focused on growth By Zoe Martin Iowa Farmer Today | Posted: Thursday, December 27, 2012 Jim Carroll knows a lot about camping, urban renewal, golf and agriculture. Above all, the author, speaker and consultant knows change. “It’s hard to explain what I do,” said Carroll, a “futurist.” “I walk into virtually […]