Signature keynotes
Know what changes next in your industry.
In a world of high-velocity change, generic presentations fall flat. Every Jim Carroll keynote answers one question for your audience: what changes next in our industry, and what should we do about it?
Start with your brief
What does your audience need to leave with?
Choose the brief that fits your event (your industry’s future, AI, or leading at speed) and Jim customizes it from there. Being Unique is a fourth keynote for creativity-focused events and offsites.
01 / Industry
“Our audience needs to understand what changes in our industry between now and 2030, and leave optimistic and ready to act.”
The Opportunity Horizon ↓02 / AI
“What does AI change in our industry, workforce, economics, customer model and competitive structure?”
The AI Acceleration Advantage ↓03 / Leadership
“Our leadership team understands change, but isn’t moving fast enough.”
Lead at the Speed of Change ↓04 / Culture
“Our people need a reason, and permission, to think differently in the age of AI.”
Being Unique ↓Your event
Which kind of event are you planning?
Leadership meetings & CEO events
Concise, detailed insight for a CEO, a board or a senior team.
Leadership & CEO events ↗Customer & User Group Events
Your value proposition, put in the context of your customers’ future: client conferences, user groups, partner and dealer meetings.
Customer & User Group Events ↗Association & industry conferences
A customized opening or closing keynote on where your industry is going.
Industries ↗
01 / Industry
The Opportunity Horizon
What Changes Next in Your Industry, and What to Do About It
Our audience needs to understand what changes in our industry between now and 2030, and leave optimistic and ready to act.
- Why now
- In a world of relentless change, the greatest risk isn’t disruption itself, but the failure to see it coming.
- What it covers
- Jim cuts through the noise to reveal the specific megatrends—from AI and economic volatility to supply chain reinvention, genomics and the future of work—that will define the next decade of your industry. It is designed for organizations that need to move beyond reactive strategies and build a concrete plan.
- Your audience leaves with
- A clear framework to identify transformative opportunities, mitigate emerging risks, and align your strategic thinking to the realities of tomorrow.
- Who it’s for
- Customized for your sector, from manufacturing, financial services and insurance to healthcare, agriculture and retail.
- Related case studies
02 / AI
The AI Acceleration Advantage
What AI Changes in Your Industry, Your Workforce and Your Competitive Model
What does AI change in our industry, workforce, economics, customer model and competitive structure?
- Why now
- Not a keynote about AI. A keynote about what AI changes in your business.
- What it covers
- A clear, jargon-free roadmap: what generative AI, machine intelligence and automation will actually do to your industry and business model. It also tackles what Jim calls the Acceleration Paradox: the future is won not by what your team knows now, but by how fast it learns what it needs to know tomorrow.
- Your audience leaves with
- A strategic framework for harnessing AI as an engine for growth, moving from experimentation to real competitive advantage.
- Who it’s for
- Recent AI keynotes include the RCMP, KPMG Ireland, Kiewit, Icon PLC and Zurich Insurance.
- Related case studies
03 / Leadership
Lead at the Speed of Change
Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast
Our leadership team understands change, but isn’t moving fast enough.
- Why now
- Speed is the ultimate competitive advantage, and volatility is the single greatest opportunity for innovation.
- What it covers
- A practical, battle-tested playbook for leaders who need agile, resilient, high-performing teams. Drawing on lessons from companies that thrived during past downturns, it delivers a framework for faster decisions, leading through ambiguity and unlocking the creative potential inside your team. Based on Jim’s books Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast and Dancing in the Rain.
- Your audience leaves with
- The tools and mindset to move beyond simply managing change and start architecting the future.
- Who it’s for
- Trusted by organizations from The World Bank to the PGA of America and The Walt Disney Company.
- Related case studies
04 / Culture
Being Unique
Why the Odd One Out Gets to the Future Faster
Our people need a reason, and permission, to think differently in the age of AI.
- Why now
- AI has handed everyone the same tools, the same data, and increasingly the same ideas. In a world this fast, sameness means arriving at the future last.
- What it covers
- A provocative, high-energy keynote that reframes uniqueness not as a personality quirk but as a hard-edged acceleration strategy: the one thing AI cannot commoditize. Based on Jim’s new book, Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win!
- Your audience leaves with
- Why the safe path has quietly become the riskiest route—and how to turn their difference into their competitive edge.
- Who it’s for
- For creativity-focused events and offsites; customized to your industry and strategic moment.
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How Jim customizes every keynote
Jim doesn’t do canned work.
Whichever keynote you choose, it is built around your audience.
The conversation
Jim’s first question: “What do you need to accomplish?” An extensive pre-event consultation aligns the keynote with your objectives, themes and desired outcomes.
The research
Jim’s trends-tracking system scans emerging trends, from AI to genomics, across dozens of industries. That global insight is woven into deep research on your organization and sector.
The keynote
The intelligence becomes a powerful, actionable narrative, delivered on your stage or from Jim’s virtual broadcast studio.
What comes next
Your audience leaves with a clear framework for turning disruption into opportunity.
Listen → research → map the trends → build the story → connect the room → leave a playbook.
Leadership meetings
Leadership Meetings
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!
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Start with what your audience needs to accomplish; the keynote is built around it.