The Business of Innovation
CNBC
A featured expert on the primetime series hosted by Maria Bartiromo, broadcast in the United States and on CNBC’s networks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Featured, interviewed or published in
CNBC
BBC
ABC News
BusinessWeek
Fast Company
USA Today
The Guardian
Credit Suisse Bulletin
Chicago Sun-Times
World Government Summit
Business Wire
NZ Business
The Globe and Mail
Maclean’s
CBC
CTV
Global
National Post
Financial Post
Toronto Star
Vancouver Sun
Calgary Herald
Edmonton Journal
Ottawa Citizen
The Gazette
Winnipeg Free Press
Citytv
Air Canada in-flight
CPA Canada
Quill & Quire
3,000+Interviews
1,000+Published articles
20Years as a columnist
88Dated entries in the record
Highlights
Covered around the world.
The highest-profile outlets, across seven countries.
United States
BusinessWeek
Named his innovation blog one of four leading sources of insight on innovation and creativity.
United Kingdom
BBC
Expert commentary on technology and innovation. The BBC has also been a keynote client.
United States
ABC News
Expert commentary on technology and business trends.
United States
USA Today
Featured in a piece on leading business futurists and the acceleration of change.
Read ↗United Kingdom
The Guardian
“The global village: technological trends across the world.”
Switzerland · read in 50 countries
Credit Suisse Bulletin
“Success Comes to Those Who Evolve,” drawing on What I Learned from Frogs in Texas.
Read ↗United Arab Emirates
World Government Summit
“Jim Carroll: Fast Forward to the Future,” in the summit’s speakers proceedings.
Hungary
CEO Magazine
Cover story, following his Budapest seminar.
New Zealand
NZ Business
“Think smart, not big”: his innovation philosophy.
Canada
The Globe and Mail
A weekly column in the national newspaper’s Report on Business, and later features including “Forget an MBA. How about an MBI?” and “A futurist’s lookahead.”
Canada
Maclean’s
“The futures business”: the national newsmagazine’s long-form feature on futurist speakers.
Media organizations as clients
The media books him, too.
Broadcasters and publishers have brought Jim in to speak to their own leaders about the future of their industry.
London
BBC
Two keynotes on the future of media, broadcasting and news.
New York
The Wall Street Journal
A talk to senior business leaders on the disruptive, transformative trends of our time.
United States
CBS
A session for CBS and Infinity Broadcasting on innovation and the future of broadcasting.
Canada
CBC
The national public broadcaster, as a client as well as an interviewer.
Hollywood
The Walt Disney Company
“Innovation in the World of Upside-Down Trends.”
Newspapers
International Newspaper Marketing Association
A keynote for the industry’s marketing leaders.
Cable
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
The opening keynote, two years running.
New York
Reader’s Digest Association
“Setting the Table,” its consumer food symposium.
On air
A regular voice, and a host.
Television and radio
- CBCNational television
The National; Mansbridge One on One, an hour-long interview; Venture; Prime Time News; and a regular guest spot on Midday.
- CBC NewsworldPamela Wallin Live
At least four appearances, including a full hour.
- CTV, Global, CitytvNetwork and local television
Mike Bullard’s late-night show and The Dini Petty Show on CTV, Global’s noon newscast, and Breakfast Television.
- Report on Business TelevisionThe Bottom Line
A panel of futurists.
- CBC RadioNational radio
As It Happens and Radio Noon.
His own programs
- dot.commerce with Jim CarrollAir Canada in-flight audio
Host of an in-flight program on technology and business, carried on Air Canada flights worldwide.
- e-Biz with Jim CarrollSyndicated radio
Host of a weekly one-hour show and a daily segment on e-commerce and Internet strategy.
- NetTalkSyndicated radio
Co-host, with Rick Broadhead, of a weekly one-hour show and a daily feature on Internet trends, carried by 18 stations.
In print
A columnist, and a subject.
Columns
- The Globe and MailReport on Business
A weekly column, then occasional pieces, over ten years: 128 columns.
- CAmagazine1992–2010
About 93 technology columns, and two Kenneth R. Wilson Memorial Awards for business journalism.
- Computing Canada and Profit
A monthly column in the IT trade paper, and a regular column in the business magazine.
- In the air
A column in the Canadian Airlines in-flight magazine for about three years.
- Also
Marketing Magazine, Hi-Tech Career, Successful Meetings, The Association Agenda, and a National Post guest column. More than 1,000 published articles in all.
Profiles
- Pivot Magazine2025
“The Accidental Oracle”: a full career profile, calling him “one of the world’s premier futurists.”
- The Vancouver Sun1997
“Canadian Internet Guru, Eh?” Calls him “a Net expert Fortune 500 executives have taken to heart.”
- Profit1995
“Strange New World”: the cover story on his rise as an Internet author and commentator.
- Office Automation1989
The cover story, on electronic mail, before the Internet went mainstream.
Recognition
Awards and honours.
Kenneth R. Wilson Memorial Awards
Silver and gold awards for business journalism.
Canadian New Media Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award, for his pioneering work through the 1990s.
Online Journalism Review
Named one of “50 International Names to Know.”
Internet Person of the Year
Named in 1996.
For journalists and producers
Background, ready to use.
Jim reads and answers every inquiry personally, usually the same day.
Media and interviews
Working on a story about what comes next?
Tell Jim the topic and the deadline. He answers personally, usually the same day.