About Jim Carroll, MBI *
- when the Walt Disney Corporation went looking for a expert on the topic of innovation and creativity, they went with Jim Carroll!
- 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
- a strategic thinker and "thought leader" — deep insight into trends, the future, creativity, innovation
- provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 3,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning insight for CEO / board / senior management meetings
- named by Business Week as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity, and a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation,— hosted by Maria Bartiromo
- client base includes Nestle, Motorola, American Society for Quality, Caterpillar, Verizon, the BBC, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Property and Casualty Insurance Association of America, and the Swiss Innovation Forum
- an author, columnist, media commentator, consultant
- an 18 year track record in providing direct, independent guidance to a huge, diverse client base, combined with a previous professional financial background, including 12 years with the world's largest professional services firm
- he has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of industries, associations, professions, companies, individuals
- has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries
- sample keynote topic: What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy
The details
Trends, the future, innovation, creativity — that's the focus of internationally recognized futurist Jim Carroll!
Rapid times require bold change and new levels of creativity and innovation within every organization ... and that's why Jim was recently named as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity by Business Week magazine.
There’s no wonder that such global publications are picking up on Jim’s key message. Jim is known for effecting compelling change with lasting results. Jim's recent clients include Disney, DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, Nestle, Motorola, KPMG, Towers Perrin, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Swiss Innovation Forum, Verizon, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Waters Corporation.
Jim has carefully studied the key strategies, methods and cultures that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity. His extensive research has allowed him to identify and analyze the key trends that are impacting dozens of industries. He shares this deep insight with a client base that spans the world. Jim has spoken to audiences in Zurich, New York, Vancouver, Cayman Islands, Palm Springs, London, Los Angeles, Budapest, Miami, Toronto, Costa Rica, San Francisco, Nassau and Stockholm, to name a few locations. He works with small, intimate management get-togethers, to on-stage presentations that dazzle an audience of 3,000 or more.
Jim is completely focused on creativity and innovation — insight that is captured in his books 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.
What's Jim talking about? Global economic trends; hyper-innovation; rapid time to market; the latest consumer trends; collapse of product lifecycles and high-velocity marketing; the skills crisis, managing Gen-connect and the new workplace; creating high performance, change oriented teams.
He has provided his insight in dozens of books, in over 600 articles, and in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with 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.
What he does!
- he provides unique, detailed, customized insight into workplace, business, economic, current events, social and cultural trends, as well as into demographic, lifestyle and technology issues, based on highly original research.
- he sets the stage for organizations to become more competitive, innovative and adaptable, and that are open to the opportunities of the future
- he does so in a very dynamic and motivational style, with presentations that involve his signature humour, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations
How can he help you?
- he wakes people up to the trends that will affect them, and challenges them to cope with a world that continues to witness constant, dramatic change
- "thought provoking, full of energy, up to the minute and timely" are just a few of the ways to describe Jim's presentations. Jim has the ability to energize people so they can discover opportunities for personal and corporate growth
- each presentation is unique and customized. Clients value the time Jim takes to "know" their industry or profession, their issues and concerns
(*) "The world doesn't need many more folks with a Masters of Business Administration — it needs a lot more with a Masters in Business Imagination!" Jim Carroll, imagining what it would be like if we could earn our MBI