Jim Carroll

Innovative organizations succeed by mastering the pace of the new high-velocity economy. In an era of economic challenge, they develop a relentless focus on chasing opportunity! For more than two decades, Futurist Jim Carroll has shared worldwide key strategies for moving forward through uncertainty.

World Class Innovators Focus on Growth Despite Economic Uncertainty and Volatility Jim Carroll knows from experience that organizations that focus on staying ahead of fast-paced economic trends in an era of volatility are best positioned for long-term success. He’s been sharing this critical insight with leadership teams since the dot.com collapse-induced recession of 2001!

In 2025, it’s pretty volatile out there and uncertainty rules our future. In the context of that, it’s important to focus on the long-term goal, not the short-term volatility.

Jim’s keynote focuses on how to lead through uncertainty. He shares powerful insight gathered during previous economic downturns and periods of volatility and uncertainty.

Here’s the key message – long-term winners are those who chose not to participate in the downturn, but instead focus on growth, opportunity, and the future. It’s powerful insight for your corporate leadership meeting or offsite event.

Simple Strategies for Finding Your Creativity, Accelerating Innovation, and Getting to Your Future Faster

Conformity stifles creativity and prevents great ideas from flourishing. Uniqueness is the superpower that lets creativity flow! Embracing uniqueness is crucial for innovation and taking initiative, which is essential for navigating the future.

Your unique perspective and ability to think differently will empower you to create change and shape a better tomorrow. It sets you apart from others and lets you achieve your full innovation potential!

Based on his book of the same name coming in 2025, Jim shares with teams the key methods by which they can accelerate their creative, innovative capabilities!

Strategic Clarity on the Disruptive, Transformative Challenges and Opportunities That Really Matter.

Leadership teams require a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges. They don’t need hype.

That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary. Jim Carroll has provided dozens of global leadership teams with highly customized, industry-specific keynotes that give deep insight into the impact of AI on the company and the industry.

Jim Carroll’s transformative concept for moving forward in the era of accelerating change

Customized with detailed research for specific industries, including agriculture, finance, banking, insurance, retail, supply chain, construction, manufacturing and more.

Every industry is being redefined at blinding speed by technology, globalization, the rapid emergence of new competitors, new forms of collaborative global R&D, and countless other challenges! The speed with which these changes occur are now running up against the traditional culture, organizational structure and leadership methodologies that once worked well in the past – but don’t align to today’s fast moving realities.

The future demands that you think BIG, be bold, and relentlessly pursue opportunity

Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived, with materials not yet in existence, using methodologies not yet developed – and these will be sold to consumers who do not yet know that these new products and services will become a critical part of their lives!

That’s the perspective that Futurist Jim Carroll brings to his keynote presentation at association events and corporate leadership meetings – and with that theme in mind, will provide you with a customized, concise overview of the trends that matter into tomorrow.

Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future

Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future.

A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts.

Jim is known for his presentations at these events which involve highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, a global track record, and detailed industry experience!

Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before

Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before.

That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events.
It’s an opportunity to tell their story, position their products, outline their value proposition, and build relationships.

Futurist Jim Carroll helps organizations deliver their key strategic message at these customer or client user group meetings with a highly customized keynote based on detailed industry and issue research.

3D printing in concrete, the arrival of new construction materials, and bold new architectural and design concepts. The arrival of artificial intelligence, digital twin, and other new technologies for imagining the design, construction, and assembly of buildings and facilities. The emerge of virtual building fabrication, assembly line fabrication with rapid assembly on site, and other new methodologies. The arrival of a new generation of engineers weaned on SimCity and planted firmly in the virtual world, provided for the dramatic acceleration and adoption of new construction ideas. And let’s not forget intelligent building infrastructure and the acceleration of the digitization of the home and industrial facility!

Wherever you turn, the construction industry is now one defined by speed, new methodologies, new materials, new ideas, and bold thinking – and as Jim Carroll has shared with his many global clients in the sector – ‘the future belongs to those who are fast.’

In this keynote, Futurist Jim Carroll provides attendees with an up-to-the-moment overview of the key trends redefining the construction sector, disrupting ideas, and allowing for faster innovation, based upon the extensive, customized research for which he is globally known.

With his focus on turning any threat into an opportunity, he will outline a clear path forward for bold, transformative thinking, and innovation strategies that are based on careful research of dozens of successful construction industry companies who have innovated successfully in this new, fast-paced world.

Whether it’s driverless tractors, weed-zapping robots or data-transmitting crops, the future of farming is happening faster than you might think!

Many people continue to view farming from the sepia-toned photos of the 1940s and 1950s. They don’t realize the technological and scientific advances or the massive opportunities for international growth. Growers that focus on innovation as a core value will find success; their innovation will focus on the triple-feature need for growth, efficiency and ingestion of new science. It will be by adopting new methodologies, products, partnerships and ideas that they will learn to thrive.

Jim is recognized worldwide as a “thought leader” and authority on global trends, rapid business model change, business transformation in a period of economic uncertainty, and the necessity for fast-paced innovation.

Jim has extensive experience with all aspects of the agricultural sector. A good example? He was the opening keynote speaker at a conference of the top 100 cattle ranchers, feedlots and stockers in the US — and thrilled the audience with his insight into global trends impacting the agriculture sector. Based on that event, he was then invited in to inspire 500 cattle ranchers — a very discerning audience — with the feedback that “you certainly challenged us as to the pace of change the future is bringing to our industry, at the same time that you inspired us to embrace it’s opportunities. You were outstanding! Ranchers are pretty conservative – particularly here in Texas – but you were the best speaker we’ve ever had at our event!”