Jim Carroll
Biography of Jim Carroll
International futurist, Trends, and Innovation expert
Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends & innovation experts. And it’s his inspirational, transformative thinking that will help you discover opportunity in an era of high-velocity change. In his most recent keynotes and leadership sessions, he has been helping his clients meet the challenges of the economic contraction by focusing on innovation, and by aligning their strategy to fast-paced future trends. Jim keynotes audiences of 4,000 in Las Vegas, or works with small Board/CEO level strategy sessions. With a 15-year track record, he has deep, unique, industry or association specific insight.
Jim has a tracked record of providing unique guidance on cutting edge trends, and identifying opportunities for innovation; his unique insight has been sought by some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. When the Walt Disney Corporation went looking for a speaker on innovation and creativity for a corporate event, they chose Jim Carroll.
Jim has a global blue chip client list that includes Disney, Pearson PLC, CapitolOne, Readers Digest Food & Entertainment Group, Lincoln Financial, Yum! Brands -- KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Toshiba Australia, Visa, IBM, Motorola, Nestle, BBC, Deloitte, Caterpillar, Rockwell Collins, Ingersoll Rand, the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Conference, Burger King, the Swiss Innovation Forum and many more.
Jim's topics range from current economic issues ("Achieving Growth! Why Innovators Will Rule in the Post-Recession Economy - And How You Can Join Them!"), to innovation insight ("What Do Innovative Companies Do? 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now!"), to future trends ("Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World")
Jim is a frequent media commentator: BusinessWeek on Jim: "a leading source for innovation insight"; CNBC featured him guest expert on innovation on their show "The Business of Innovation." He is globally recognized for his unique wisdom and insight into trends. His insights have been covered by ABC News, BusinessWeek, INC, Fast Company, PBS, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL Magazine.
Jim is the author of Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, and What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.
For over fifteen years, Jim has been studying the issue of what makes companies relentlessly creative, and how they ride critical fast paced trends in order to achieve dramatic market success. Most recently, he has become widely recognized for his deep insight into how innovative organizations are achieving market or transformational growth despite deep economic challenges.
The result is that he provides guidance that is timely and unique: how to realign business strategy for fast-paced economic trends and new business realities; a realistic outline of the emerging trends, threats and opportunities that will impact your organization; how to become a more forward thinking organization that can anticipate and manage change, rather than reacting to change; guidance on how to do things differently in a world that demands constant, relentless innovation.
Jim is known for an engaging stage style, combining a deep fact base with fascinating stories and anecdotes; he is noted for his quirky sense of humor and extremely high level of energy on stage.
Topics
- The Obama Economy: Understanding the Impact and the Opportunity
- Achieving Growth: How to Innovate During a Recession
- Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation
- What Comes Next With the Global Economy? Opportunities, Strategies and Inspiration That Will Keep You Focused
- 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning Yourself to The Fast Future
- Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World
- What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy
- What's Happening with Your Workforce: Making Generations Work
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Books of Jim Carroll
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Title:Ready, Set, DoneSubtitle:How to Innovate When Faster is the New FastAuthor:Jim CarrollPublisher:Oblio PressBook:Paperback, 192 pagesISBN:978-09-736-5542-1The high velocity global economy of today drives rapid consumer, business, industrial and marketplace change.
The fast paced world around us is relentless and unforgiving. It drives increased customer and business partner expectations, requires faster innovation, and necessitates a faster more complex response to rapidly changing circumstances.
That's why you need to learn how to innovate when faster is the new fast - by getting into a mindset where you're prepared to figure out a solution to a problem, almost before you know you have a problem.
Ready, Set, Done provides unique insight into how to innovate when faster is the new fast
Velocity: you'll understand the rapid change that increasingly drives our world, and why it's critical to constantly innovate in order to keep ahead
Agility: You'll learn how organizations ensuring they can respond to fast-changing circumstances Innovation: you'll gain insight into how innovation can apply to everything you do, every day
Activity: you'll learn what you should start doing now to elevate the importance of your innovation efforts. -
Title:What I Learned from Frogs in TexasSubtitle:Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking InnovationAuthor:Jim CarrollPublisher:Oblio PressBook:Paperback, 132 pagesISBN:978-097-36-5540-7We live in an era of unprecedented and relentless change. The emergence of China as a super-power; hyper-innovation and business market turmoil; constant career change and rapid scientific advances. Competition is changing overnight, and product lifecycles often last for just a few months. Permanence has been torn asunder. We are in a time that demands a new agility and flexibility: leaders must have the skill and insight to prepare for a future that is rushing at them faster than ever before. In What I Learned From Frogs in Texas, Jim Carroll provides concrete guidance on how to turn challenges into opportunity ; anticipate future trends that will impact you ; move from a culture of indecision to one that is forward-thinking and decisive ; instill an innovative culture in your company ; develop key leadership skills for the future ; and view change as an opportunity to pursue not as a threat to be feared.
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Publications of Jim Carroll
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Jim Carroll Re-engage yourself with the future
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Jim Carroll The Impact of Social Networking
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Jim Carroll Innovation killers
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Jim Carroll Innovation in recession
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Jim Carroll The next generation
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