Jim Carroll

A leading international futurist, Carroll dedicates his time and expertise to making organizations and people ready and able to adopt tomorrow, today.

Travels From:  Toronto

SPEECH TOPICS

What Comes Next? (...and What Should You Do About It?)
Coping with Ketchup: How to Adapt to a World of Constant Change

Healthcare Trends & Transformation: What Medical Professionals Must Do in an Era of Constant Change
What happens in a world in which the patient has been information empowered? Where medical devices are routinely connected into a smart-grid that allows for a healthcare system in which wired caregivers and connected doctors play an increasing role? When the pace of growth of medical knowledge exceeds the capability of the average medical professional to keep up? Carroll addresses these issues, and many others, in a customized presentation designed to help healthcare executives, administrators and professionals understand how our entire concept of medicine and healthcare delivery is changing as a result of the flood of significant new trends and developments.

Thriving on Change! How to Create an Innovation Culture

ABOUT Jim Carroll

As a leading international futurist, innovation and trends expert, Jim Carroll dedicates his time to helping people and organizations understand how they can aggressively adopt tomorrow, today. He is well known for his critical thinking and business-oriented view of issues related to future developments, strategic operational trends and business models, workplace trends, organizational culture and transformation, product and service innovation, consumer attitudes, and market challenges.

Carroll provides insight in many different settings, including keynote presentations, executive briefings, corporate and board of director strategy sessions, and interactive workshops. He excels in helping organizations understand the new realities that surround them, and the impact and opportunity of the emerging realities yet to come. He also provides concrete guidance on how your organization will be affected by leading trends; the strategies and challenges that you will be faced with in the future; specific cultural and change management issues that you must address in order to succeed; how new technologies and trends will impact your future; and the competitive challenges that will be barriers to your success.

Carroll's foresight is based on extensive research and analysis. He has written over 600 articles for a wide variety of national and international publications; has appeared in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television, and in print; and has 34 books to his credit, selling in excess of 750,000 copies worldwide, including Surviving the Information Age, and co-authoring Good Health Online, a ground-breaking book that examined how consumers could effectively use the Internet to learn more about the health conditions that are affecting them. He is currently working on his 35th book, Integrity: How to Get It, How to Keep It.

A successful entrepreneur and a Fellowed Chartered Accountant, Carroll is also an award-winning columnist. He has been listed as "One of 50 International Names to Know" by Online Journalism Review and was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by a major national new media organization.

TESTIMONIALS

"In the ten years that I have been organizing conferences I have not run across a more pertinent and energizing keynote speaker presentation." — GEOTec Media

"Your presentation was up-to-the-minute timely, possible only because of your ability to work with conference organizers in advance to determine our needs. This is a rare gift among keynote speakers, and greatly appreciated!" — International Newspaper Marketing Association

"Evaluations consistently rated your presentation 5 out of 5!" — Microsoft

"Energetic, refreshing, meaningful...you definitively set the stage for the next day." — Roche Diagnostics