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Jim Carroll · The Futurist Who Knows Your Industry. Know What Changes Next. Move Before It Does.

For speakers bureaus and event planners. Everything you need to recommend Jim Carroll for a 2027 event, in one forwardable PDF: positioning, keynotes, formats, industry depth, recent case studies, client quotes and booking details.

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When to Recommend Jim

When a CEO or industry audience needs a heavily researched view of what changes next in their sector, and a practical playbook for acting on it.

The shortcut: Industry-specific future? Leadership audience? Needs customization? Jim.

Every keynote gets 25–50+ hours of customized research: client calls, industry research, event objectives, trend analysis and current developments.

Show Your Client What Customization Means

Need to demonstrate why Jim is different from a generic futurist or AI speaker? Send your client a 2027 Brief. These short visual documents show how Jim takes an industry, an audience and a business challenge and begins building the keynote before he ever walks onstage.

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• Paving the Future: roads and infrastructure (selected pages)
• Farming 2036: agriculture and food systems (selected pages)

The keynote isn’t customized by changing the logo on the opening slide. It is rebuilt around the world the audience walks into every morning.

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Jim Carroll · The Futurist Who Knows Your Industry. Know What Changes Next. Move Before It Does.

Search card (about 50 words)

Jim Carroll is the futurist who knows your industry. Drawing on 30+ years of pattern recognition and 25–50+ hours of research into each client’s sector, he turns AI, technology, workforce and market disruption into a practical action map, so leaders know what changes next and move before it does.

AI and transformation (about 100 words)

Jim Carroll helps leaders understand what AI changes in their industry, not just what the technology can do. The futurist who knows your industry has delivered 2,000+ keynotes to more than 2 million people in 60+ countries, combining three decades of pattern recognition with intensive research into each client’s sector. He translates AI, automation, workforce change, accelerating technology and new competitive models into a practical roadmap leaders can act on. Organizations including NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Microsoft and the World Bank have turned to him for insight into disruptive change. His promise is simple: know what changes next, and move before it does.

Industry association (about 150 words)

Every industry is being reshaped by a different collision of AI, technology, workforce change, economics, customer expectations and competitive disruption. Jim Carroll’s job is to determine which changes matter most to yours.

For more than 30 years, Jim has helped leadership teams and industry audiences understand what comes next and what they should do about it. Before an engagement, he conducts extensive research into the organization, sector and audience, typically investing 25–50+ hours across client conversations, industry developments, trend analysis and event objectives. The result is not a canned “future trends” speech, but a keynote built around the realities facing the people in the room.

Jim has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes to over 2 million people in 60+ countries, with clients including NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Microsoft and the World Bank. He gives industry leaders the clarity to identify emerging opportunities, understand disruption and move before competitors do.

C-suite and strategic leadership (about 250 words)

Jim Carroll is the futurist who knows your industry, for leaders who need more than predictions. They need decision clarity.

For over 30 years, Jim has worked with senior executives and some of the world’s most recognized organizations to understand the forces reshaping their industries. His engagements have explored the future of space for NASA, healthcare and life sciences for organizations including Pfizer and Genentech, infrastructure, energy, insurance, mobility, manufacturing, consumer markets and the implications of accelerating technologies across dozens of sectors.

What distinguishes Jim is the work before he steps onto the stage. Every major engagement begins with an intensive research process: leadership conversations, industry analysis, emerging trends, competitive developments and the specific objectives of the meeting, typically 25–50+ hours of customized research. Jim then translates that work into a clear view of what changes next, why it matters and what leaders should do about it.

Today his work focuses particularly on the collision of artificial intelligence, accelerating technology, workforce transformation, economic volatility and industry disruption. Rather than explain AI in isolation, he shows leaders how these forces change their operating model, talent, customers, competitive position and opportunity horizon.

Jim has delivered 2,000+ keynotes to more than 2 million people in 60+ countries. His clients include NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Microsoft and the World Bank. Whether addressing an industry conference, customer event or executive leadership meeting, his objective is the same: help the audience know what changes next, and move before it does.

The Keynotes

• The Opportunity Horizon: What Changes Next in Your Industry, and What to Do About It
• The AI Acceleration Advantage: What AI Changes in Your Industry, Your Workforce and Your Competitive Model
• Lead at the Speed of Change: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast
• Being Unique: Why the Odd One Out Gets to the Future Faster

Full keynote descriptions → · Formats →

When the Buyer Says… Recommend Jim With…

When the buyer says…	Recommend Jim with…
“We need a futurist, but it cannot be generic.”	The Opportunity Horizon
“Our leadership team is trying to understand what’s next.”	The Opportunity Horizon, as a leadership-team session
“We need AI but our audience isn’t technical.”	The AI Acceleration Advantage
“Everybody understands change; nobody is actually moving.”	Lead at the Speed of Change
“We need something fresh on human differentiation in the AI era.”	Being Unique
“This is a customer conference and the keynote must reinforce our strategy.”	A customized customer and partner keynote
“We want more than a one-day speaker.”	Futurist in Residence
“How is Jim different from a generic futurist or AI speaker?”	Send a 2027 Brief

Four Lines Your Team Can Use

• “The futurist who does the homework.”
• “What changes next in your industry, and what to do about it.”
• “Thirty years of pattern recognition, plus current research into your sector.”
• “Not a keynote about AI. A keynote about what AI changes in your business.”

Industry Briefings

Each sector site includes a free PDF briefing you can share with a client: manufacturing, financial services, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, construction, energy, retail, consumer products, food, education. For AI: jimcarroll.ai.

Proof

Recent, dated keynote case studies and attributed client quotes: case studies by industry → · 23 recent AI keynotes →

Booking

Fees on request. Booking through a bureau or direct costs the same. Jim reads and answers every inquiry personally, usually the same day.

You do not need a finished brief: tell Jim who is in the room and what is changing fastest around them.

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Keywords

Primary: futurist, artificial intelligence, industry trends, strategic foresight, future of work, business transformation, innovation, leadership, disruption.

Secondary: emerging technology, change leadership, workforce transformation, economic trends, competitive strategy, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, retail, automotive and mobility, infrastructure, supply chain.