Jim Carroll

Biography

Futurist Jim Carroll is on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.

As the world’s leading global futurist, keynote speaker, business trends expert, and transformation expert, he is recognized worldwide for his compelling motivational style.

In his 30-year career as a speaker, Jim has shared his insight with over 2 million people worldwide, guiding many of the world’s largest organizations into the future, with over 2,000 keynotes and leadership presentations and sessions. Jim is represented by the same agencies that book global icons such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Ervin “Magic” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Tom Brady.

Jim’s clients include NASA, Disney, the World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer, Microsoft, Cisco, and over 1,500 more. He shares his highly customized, industry-specific insight with CEOs, senior executives, government leaders, and leadership teams on the real trends that matter and the innovation pathways to align with new disruptive realities.

With extensive industry insight and customized research, he helps to transform growth-oriented organizations into high-velocity innovation heroes!

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AI Megatrends: Beyond ChatGPT: How AI is Redefining Your Industry, Profession, Company, and Career – And What You Need To Do About It!

The acceleration of AI is not just about the technology; it’s not just about ChatGPT; it’s about the AI Megatrends! The
transformative and disruptive concepts involving such things as predictive diagnostics, autonomous technologies, and
machine vision, the hyper-connectivity of intelligent devices, the integration of AI into robotics and virtualized digital twin
technologies, workforce and process augmentation technologies, virtual knowledge assistants, real-time risk monitoring, product reinvention, and transformation through embedded AI, and so much more!

These are the types of AI Megatrends that you need to understand to comprehend how your industry, profession,
association, and job and career will change. AI is already causing a massive change in every industry such as: changing the
way we diagnose and treat medical conditions; how we assess and underwrite insurance risk using sophisticated AI risk
management tools; how we manage our march to precision farming using AI-driven autonomous technologies; how we are using AI throughout retail and manufacturing for deep supply chain analysis and inventory management.

It’s vast, sweeping, transformative megatrends that will continue at a faster pace as we enter the ‘era of acceleration.’

Futurist Jim Carroll puts these realities into perspective for your organization in a fast-paced keynote or leadership meeting presentation. A highly customized, industry-specific AI Megatrent overview based on customized research specific
to your industry and organization and aligned to your unique perspective. It’s insight that matters, that is relevant and
actionable!

RIGHT NOW, you need highly relevant AI Megatrends guidance from a realistic, strategic business perspective.

Jim will help you understand:
• the AI Megatrends that are already underway, and those that are yet to come
• the disruptive and transformative context of these trends in your industry, profession, or association, based on up-
to-the-minute detailed research specific to your requirements
• why the ‘era of acceleration’ with AI will now challenge all your assumptions about your future
• 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
• what actionable steps you can pursue so you can prepare a concise strategic plan for your organization and team
Futurist Jim Carroll will help you cut through the noise and the hype to understand what is really happening, and the critical
nature of the important trends that you must pay attention to!

Testimonials

An outstanding presentation for an industry and association that falls on its traditions so often. We learned that our tradition should not be something that holds us back, but rather the launching pad for innovation for the future. Thanks Jim for your thought provoking presentation!

– 94th PGA of America Annual General Meeting

We were extremely pleased with Jim's presentation... the content was bang-on and would hopefully prompt people to think about the rapidity of change going on in our world!. Jim's storytelling approach really helps to get his points across! He did a great job!

– Walt Disney Company

We thought Jim was amazing - just the positive message we wanted to leave folks with.

– T. Rowe Price

Jim Carroll recently presented at Lockheed Martin's Executive HR Leadership conference. His content was very provocative, fascinating, and relevant. I've embedded a couple of his nuggets into my operating model

– Lockheed Martin

Many thanks for your presentation, "7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning the Fast Future to Your Current Strategy" It couldn't have been more energy filled and dynamic to start the conference out on the right foot. It was exactly what the audience wanted and needed to hear. The feedback from all attendees was excellent.

– VIBE Conference, Las Vegas

Bringing Jim into our MLC Sales Conference in Sydney through a fibre optic line was truly incredible. The key note session Jim delivered was on the money, he exceeded my expectations.

– MLC National Australia Bank

Jim is one of the best speakers we had. He had excellent information that our attendees could take home and incorporate it into their plans immediately. He also incorporated our messages into his presentation that helped localize the information for our group. Highly recommended!

– Illinois Bureau of Tourism

After seeing Jim speak at another conference, I was so motivated by his presentation, I invited Jim to speak at a conference for my organization. Another home run! Powerful, articulate, thought provoking and energetic! Jim's delivery on the importance of staying abreast of rapidly changing trends truly can assist in changing the way we do business!

– US Navy - Air Force / Marine Child Youth Program Conference

... your talk hit just the right note.....I did have several people ask me if they could get a copy of your presentation as well as many who noted that the programming was fantastic and gave them a lot to think about.

– Consumer Electronics Association - 2010 / CEO Summit

Thank you for an outstanding opening keynote for the 10th Anniversary Opportunities Conference: you received a 100% approval rating which has only been achieved 2 other times in our 10 year history!

– Opportunities 2009 Conference Organizer

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   Tim Mooney 
 August 20, 2024
 
 
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 August 14, 2024
 
 
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 August 8, 2024
 
 
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 August 3, 2024
 
 
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 July 29, 2024
 
 
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 June 20, 2024
 
 
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