Jim Carroll

The BIG Future: The Mega-Trends that Define Transformative Opportunities and Demand Bold Thinking!

The future demands that you think BIG, be bold, and pursue opportunities.

The only way to do this is to understand the “megatrends” that are defining our future, the disruptive opportunities they present, and the industry, skills, and business model opportunities they provide.

We are now seeing so much change that our new reality is this: 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 life! 

Are you ready to pursue a BIG future? Do you understand what comes next and what you need to do about it? Based on his BIG Trends series featured on his Web site, Jim takes you into a dramatic new future involving accelerating scientific discovery, rapid knowledge sharing, accelerated methodologies, and dramatic industry transformations.

You will come away with new strategic leadership insight that will help you see disruptive trends, focus on opportunities, unlock creativity, enhance your speed, accelerate innovation and deliver on growth opportunities!

Highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, global track record, and detailed industry experience!

In the post-pandemic economy, CEO/CxO’s are managing multiple priorities: business model disruption; the rapid emergence of new competitors; products that are almost out of date by the time they are brought to market; the digitization of everything; and the acceleration of industries. The transformation of everything is around them.

All of these trends — and more — require that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts. Many CEO/CxO's are finding it necessary to bring their leadership teams together for a corporate offsite event in order to discuss, strategize and align to a faster, transformative future.

In an increasing number of these events, the CEO/CxO or other senior executive has selected Jim Carroll to open or participate in such a meeting with an in-depth, customized leadership-oriented keynote that sets the tone from the start.  They have selected Jim for his proven global track record of providing a keynote that is based on extensive consultation, customized research, and very detailed, specific insight. Keynotes have included looking at the big future, disruption and transformation, accelerating creativity, the fast future, and many more topics. Clients who have arranged for Jim at these sessions have included Disney, Chemours, Dupont, Rich Foods, NASA, Mercedes Benz, New York Life, Volvo, Nestle, Black & Veach, and many more.

Learn why Jim is your valuable, trusted partner in aligning your organization to a faster, transformative future!

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast: Aligning Yourself for the Era of Acceleration

We live in a time of massive challenge, and yet one of massive opportunity. We’re faced with deep and complex issues involving the environment, health care, water, and food. At the same time, every industry is faced with upheaval and disruption.

In this context, 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 is now running up against the traditional culture, organizational structure, and leadership methodologies that once worked well in the past - but don’t align with today’s fast-moving realities.

Most organizations are bound up in tradition, process, and certain defined ways of doing things — rules — that have helped them succeed in the past. Over time, they have developed a corporate culture that might have worked in the slower-paced world of the past — but now has them on the sick bed, suffering from organizational sclerosis that clogs up their ability to try to do anything new. Those very things which worked for them in the past might be the anchors that could now hold them back as the future rushes at them with ever-increasing speed. They are being challenged in a fundamental way by those who think big, and by some really big, transformative trends.

You need to align yourself to the big opportunities of today through bold, transformative thinking; take the small-scale steps today to align yourself to this future, and focus on a culture of speed and agility that can help you to get there at the right time! You need to think about transformation, not just innovation!

In this keynote, Jim outlines his simple but transformative structure with deep insight into what it takes to master the new, complex volatile world, by embracing the chaos, thinking transformation, not innovation, mastering the timing of trends, and accelerating forward-oriented growth opportunities. The new model for going forward in the era of accelerating change: Think big, start small, and scale fast!

How Al is Redefining Your Industry, Profession, Company and Career - And What You Need To Do About It!

Strategic Clarity on Al

There are several ways to understand the impact of Al on your company, industry, association, or profession. As the saying goes - it's pretty certain that most people won't find their job being replaced by Al, however it might be replaced by someone using Al!

That's why strategic clarity on the impact of Al is necessary. Jim Carroll can provide you with a highly customized keynote presentation that will examine several issues.

ChatGPT as a Disruptor

These trends will come to change the nature of the way we search, learn, interact, and think.

It's a new era of human-knowledge augmentation, information butlers, and on-demand knowledge robots; the arrival of the always-available knowledge servant.

Al Megatrends are Bigger

These are the far-reaching, transformative, and disruptive Al concepts that turn industries upside down, resulting in the arrival of new competitors, massive changes in consumer behavior, the arrival of new products and services, and other major industry changes.

“I help CEOs, senior executives, and association leaders align their strategic objectives to the rapid acceleration of AI within a fast-paced keynote or leadership meeting presentation. It's based on customized research specific to your industry and organization, and aligned to your unique perspective. It’s insight that matters, is relevant, and actionable!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

What You Will Learn:

• the two key AI trends unfolding today - generative AI (ChatGPT & LLM's) and the 'AI megatrends'

• an overview of generative technology trends and their promise and peril, opportunity and challenge

• an overview of the even more significant AI Megatrends already occurring - based on up- to-the-minute detailed research specific to your requirements

• the strategic opportunities that exist with AI within your industry and organization, on a near, medium, and long-term basis

• the significant challenges and risks that exist for the same time frame

• what leading innovators and competitors are doing to align with these fast-moving trends

From Boards to Team Events

Jim shares his insight with small intimate groups of 15-20 (Boards, senior leadership teams) to large-scale corporate leadership meetings of several hundred people. He adapts his style to the audience - from highly interactive small group discussions to keynote presentations.

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

Strategic Clarity on AI

Your leadership team requires a good foundational understanding of the promise and perils of AI and insight into the opportunities and challenges.

That’s why strategic clarity on the impact of AI is necessary. Jim Carroll will provide your leadership team with a highly customized keynote presentation or interactive discussion that will provide you with deep insight into the impact of AI on your company and your industry.

Your team will come away with a better understanding of the trends that matter, the strategies that count, and the innovative actions that will take you forward.

Realistic Leadership Insight

You don't need hype or hysteria - you don't need utopian visions. You also can't let your internal engine of skepticism defer your action.. When it comes to AI, you need to have a compelling sense of urgency, but you might have an astonishing mindset of complacency. Futurist Jim Carroll will provide you with the strategic clarity on AI that you require.

CEO /CxO Level Insight

Futurist Jim Carroll is regularly booked by CEOs and senior executives of major organizations to provide insight into corporate meetings. With clients like NASA, Pfizer, Siemens, Disney, and hundreds more - he knows how to set the stage with critical insight at these offisite events.