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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.

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

Revisiting My 2017 Post: “What Comes Next with The Decline of an Empire” – Pre-Election Edition

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 […]

Video Opinion Commentary: The Global Meetings & Events Industry is Failing. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way!

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 […]

“Notable Keynotes: Lessons in Leadership for Your Eventual Post-Pandemic World” – Oil is Over, and Aligning to Reality

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 […]

What’s the Future of Retail in Our Eventual Post-Pandemic Era? Check My Upcoming Virtual Keynote: Path to Purchase Expo 2020!

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 […]

“Notable Keynotes: Lessons in Leadership for Your Eventual Post-Pandemic World” – My Keynotes @YumBrands & @BurgerKing

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 […]

Virtual Keynote Report: The Future of Healthcare : How Does Covid Change the Industry Into the Future?

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 […]

Custom Keynote Video Case Study “Covid-19 & The Insurance Industry”

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 […]

Article: “Futurist Sees an Already Fast Industry Getting Faster” – My Upcoming Keynote on the Future of Retail

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 […]

Remember the Future? How Has the Pandemic Reshaped And Accelerated Our Reality? Here’s What You Need To Know!

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 […]

Video: “Go Ahead: Admit It – You’re Stuck, Indecisive, and Not Sure What Do Do!”

So when do you innovate? Right now! For some reason, my sound configuration was off – but still a good story.

Moving Forward : Discovering Opportunity in this era of Volatility and Uncertainty!

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 […]

Video: Breaking News! The Future is Still Out There!

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.