Jim Carroll

Carroll is one of the world’s leading global futurism, trends and innovation experts, with a massive global blue-chip client list that ranges from NASA to the PGA, Disney to Johnson & Johnson, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the National Australia Bank.

I align you to the future by providing highly customized trends & industry research, delivered in a compelling motivational style. Jim Carroll

Over the last 20 years, more than 2 million people have shared his insight with his events on stage, taking in his ability to inspire audiences through a combination of deep insight, on-stage humor and motivational guidance, all grounded in deep observations on future trends.

For close to 20 years, Carroll has been studying what makes companies relentlessly creative and how they ride critical fast-paced trends in order to achieve dramatic market success.

He is recognized worldwide as a “thought leader” and authority on global trends, rapid business model change and industry transformation; business model disruption and the acceleration of market change; global economic trends; and the necessity for fast-paced innovation. 

Jim Carroll is an author of numerous books including: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; Surviving the Information Age. He also wrote The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast; Ready, Set, Done, and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation. 

Jim’s insight has been covered in countless global publications, including the UK Telegraph, Dubai’s Capital Magazine, South Africa’s The Star, the BBC, Reuters and AP News, among hundreds more. BusinessWeek named Jim Carroll as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity. He was also a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, The Business of Innovation.