Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll is a futurist, author and keynote speaker known for deeply researched, industry-specific insight into what comes next. For more than three decades, he has helped organizations understand AI, accelerating technology, disruption and transformation – turning complex trends into clear opportunities and actionable strategies.
Jim Carroll Booking & Availability
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Jim Carroll Keynote Topics & Programs
Jim Carroll speaks on artificial intelligence, business, disruption, growth, innovation and leadership through keynote presentations and related programs.
Future Trends
When the Brief Is: Our audience needs to understand what changes in our industry between now and 2030, and leave optimistic and ready to act.
In a world of relentless change, the greatest risk is not disruption itself – it is failing to see the next wave early enough. Jim cuts through the noise to identify the critical forces that will define the next decade of the client’s industry: AI, economic volatility, supply-chain reinvention, genomics, workforce transformation and other sector-specific shifts.
This keynote moves beyond trend spotting to a practical framework for identifying transformative opportunity, mitigating emerging risk and aligning strategy to what is coming next. Every version is rebuilt around the sector in the room, whether manufacturing, financial services, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, retail or another industry.
Artificial Intelligence from The Opportunity Horizon
When the Brief Is: We need an AI keynote that is not another generic ChatGPT presentation.
This is not a keynote about AI in the abstract. It is about what AI changes in the client’s business. Jim translates generative AI, machine intelligence and automation into a clear view of their impact on the industry’s economics, operating model, workforce, customer experience and competitive structure. He also addresses the Acceleration Paradox: the future is increasingly won not by what a team knows now, but by how quickly it learns what it needs to know next.
The result is a practical roadmap for moving from experimentation to real operating advantage, closing skills gaps and using people and technology together as an engine for growth.
Leadership from The AI Acceleration Advantage
When the Brief Is: Our leadership team understands change, but is not moving fast enough.
Speed has become a defining competitive advantage, yet many organizations remain slowed by uncertainty, legacy thinking and fear of disruption. Jim turns that challenge into a practical leadership playbook for building agile, resilient and high-performing teams.
Drawing on lessons from organizations that moved decisively through difficult economic periods, he shows leaders how to make faster decisions, lead through ambiguity, unlock the creative potential inside their teams and use volatility as an opportunity to transform. The keynote is grounded in his Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast framework and the leadership lessons of Dancing in the Rain.
Culture + Creativity from Lead at the Speed of Change
When the Brief Is: Our people need a reason – and permission – to think differently in the age of AI.
AI has given everyone access to many of the same tools, data and increasingly similar ideas. The strategic danger is sameness. In a fast-moving world, organizations that think like everyone else tend to arrive at the future at the same time as everyone else – which is often too late.
This provocative keynote makes the case that differentiation, curiosity and constructive nonconformity are now hard-edged business advantages. Jim reframes uniqueness as an acceleration strategy: the quality AI cannot commoditize, and a powerful route to original thinking, stronger culture and competitive edge. The keynote is based on his 2026 book Being Unique.
Jim Carroll Biography & Credentials
Jim Carroll is a globally recognized futurist, author, and keynote speaker with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations anticipate change, embrace innovation, and prepare for the future. Having delivered more than 2,000 keynotes to over 2 million people across 60+ countries, Jim is known for translating complex developments in artificial intelligence, emerging technology, leadership, and business transformation into practical insights tailored to each audience.
Trusted by organizations including NASA, The Walt Disney Company, Pfizer, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, and The World Bank, Jim brings extensive industry research to every major engagement. His presentations connect future trends with the specific challenges facing businesses, helping leaders recognize emerging opportunities, rethink established assumptions, and take meaningful action.
Jim Carroll is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Jim Carroll’s fees.
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Jim Carroll Knows Your Industry Before He Walks Onstage
For more than three decades, futurist, author and keynote speaker Jim Carroll has helped leaders understand what comes next – and what to do about it. His work is built around a simple idea: the future is not generic, so a keynote about the future should not be generic either. Jim combines long-term foresight with intensive, current research into the client, the audience, the industry and the strategic issues in the room. The result is actionable foresight: insight that is researched, relevant and designed to move people toward better decisions.
Customized Insights Across Industries
That depth of customization has become one of the defining characteristics of his work. Jim has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes to over 2 million people worldwide, working across manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, insurance and financial services, agriculture and food, energy and utilities, construction and infrastructure, retail and consumer products, technology, education and many other sectors. A major keynote can involve extensive stakeholder conversations, industry reports, research papers, market data, agenda analysis, current developments and sector-specific examples. The objective is not to sound as though an outside speaker visited the industry; it is to help the audience feel that someone understood their world well enough to show them where it is going.
Trusted by the World’s Leading Organizations
Jim has brought that approach to organizations including NASA, The Walt Disney Company, Pfizer, Mercedes-Benz, The World Bank, Microsoft, the PGA of America, Johnson & Johnson, SAP and hundreds of others. His assignments have ranged from exploring the future of space and scientific discovery for NASA, to innovation and creativity for Disney, the future of healthcare and medical science for Pfizer, economic development and manufacturing for The World Bank, and accelerating industry transformation for leadership teams around the world.
Artificial Intelligence and Industry Transformation
Artificial intelligence is now a major part of that work, but Jim’s approach is deliberately broader than a generic AI presentation. He connects AI to the actual operating reality of the client’s sector: products, workflows, risk, skills, customer behaviour, business models, scientific acceleration, automation and competitive advantage. The same technology can produce radically different outcomes in insurance, agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing or energy, and his keynotes are built to reflect those differences.
Helping Leaders Navigate Change and Disruption
Jim works equally well on major conference stages and in smaller CEO, CxO, board and senior leadership sessions. His style is fast, visual, energetic and practical, with an emphasis on translating complexity into a clear strategic story. He is frequently brought in when an organization needs to challenge old assumptions, understand the velocity of change, identify emerging opportunity, build leadership agility or make sense of the collision between AI, technology, science, workforce change and business disruption.
Global Recognition, Media Appearances and Published Works
His authority on innovation and future trends has been recognized globally. BusinessWeek named him one of four leading sources for insight on creativity and innovation, and he was a featured expert on CNBC’s prime-time series The Business of Innovation. His work has been covered by the BBC, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and other international media. He is the author of numerous books, including Being Unique, Dancing in the Rain, Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast and The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast.
Making the Future Specific, Understandable and Actionable
Whether the audience is a room of senior executives, an industry association or thousands of people at a global conference, Jim’s goal is consistent: make the future specific, make it understandable, and make it actionable.
