Jim Carroll
One of the world's leading Futurist, Trends & Innovation Experts
About Jim
Jim Carroll is an author, columnist, media commentator, and consultant, with a focus on linking future trends to innovation and creativity.He has a 20 year track record in providing direct, independent guidance to a huge, diverse global client base, combined with a previous professional financial background, including 12 years with the world's largest professional services firm.
Jim provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 5,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning sessions for CEO / board / senior management meetings. He has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of associations, professions, companies, individuals, and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others.
Sample Topics
What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?;
When Do We Get to Normal? Why Thinking BIG Will Help You Seize The Opportunities of the 21st Century;
Healthcare 2020 The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future;
Location is the New Intelligence Customer Interaction in the Era of Pervasive Mobile;
Moving Beyond the Meltdown Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation;
Where's the Growth? Transformative Opportunities for Transformative Times;
Brand Innovation At the Speed of Twitter How to Innovate in the Era of Hyperconnectivity;
What's Happening with Our Workforce Making Generations Work!
Publications
Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast;
What I Learned From Frogs in Texas;
Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation
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Jim has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of associations, professions, companies, individuals, and industries including life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking and countless others.His insight has been recently covered in the UK Telegraph, Dubai's Capital Magazine and South Africa's The Star newspaper. BusinessWeek named Jim as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity; he was a feature expert on the prime time CNBC series, The Business of Innovation, hosted by Maria Bartiromo. Credit Suisse profiled Jim in their global customer publication Bulletin, noting that he provides "unique insight on growth."
Jim has written or been featured in more than 600 articles as well as authoring dozens of books including 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. He has participated in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, including media exposure and interviews with ABC News, BusinessWeek, INC, Fast Company, CNBC, Texas Meetings and Events, The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates) CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, The National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few.
