Futurist Jim Carroll
KEYNOTE:
Driving the Future – Linking the Acceleration of Golf to The Speed of Business
Is your corporate leadership meeting at a resort, with a little bit of networking on the side?As part of the event, do you need some unique business insight that will align with your overall theme? In Jim Carroll, you’ve found the perfect playing partner!Jim will provide you with a fascinating golf-themed leadership keynote that will help your team or clients understand the accelerated future of disruption, challenge, and opportunity - all in the context of the networking golf event that you are also likely hosting!And as a 15 handicap with a passion for the game, he can share his thoughts with you during your networking time!
Futurist Jim Carroll
Author & Keynote Speaker
Trends And Innovation Expert
Futurist Jim Carroll is on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.He has been booked by CEOs of dozens of organizations worldwide, for his thought leadership on the future of their industry. Many of these have been at corporate offsite events, all of which involve a little bit of networking time built around the worlds favorite sport!“I help CEOs, senior executives, and association leaders achieve their strategic objectives by aligning them with a disruptive, accelerating future. It’s actionable, powerful leadership insight based on detailed, specific industry trends – delivered within a fast-paced keynote with a compelling motivational style!”
– Jim Carroll
Keynote Overview
Is your corporate leadership meeting at a resort, with a little bit of networking on the side?As part of the event, do you need some unique business insight that will align with your overall theme? In Jim Carroll, you’ve found the perfect playing partner! He can provide you with a fascinating leadership keynote that will help your team or clients understand the accelerated future of disruption, challenge, and opportunity! And as a 15 handicap with a passion for the game, he can share his thoughts with you during your networking time!The PGA of America, one of the largest working professional sports organizations in the world, has engaged Futurist Jim Carroll twice to help them align and adjust their focus to a fast-paced future. A world that involves the 3D printing of customized golf clubs perfectly matched to a player’s stance. Course tee time yield management systems that now rival in sophistication those of leading hotels and airlines. An industry in which GPS golf analysis technology such as Arccos, fast-moving golf entertainment complexes such as TopGolf, and smart clothing technologies are leading the game to new opportunities for growth. One in which social media posts involving Instagram stars and Youtube clips are leading to an accelerated interest in the game. Forget the idea of golf being a slow-moving, traditional game — it is being disrupted to its core and is being positioned for growth through a relentless drive for innovation and high-velocity trends.In this fascinating presentation, Jim Carroll takes you on a fast-paced cart-ride of a voyage into the new realities of business, by carefully linking the accelerated trends impacting the traditionally slow game of golf to the new world of business. One that is driven by the acceleration of business cycles, chipped away by the constant arrival of new technologies and competitors, and carefully stroked to success through perfectly aimed strategies. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this fascinating presentation, carefully customized for those attending your corporate leadership meeting.You will discover new strategies that will lead you down the fairway, bold concepts that will allow for pitch-perfect shots at disruption, and a smooth stroke method to accelerate your team to deal with the pace of change in today’s global economy!
Sample Clients
Customized Insight
When you work with Futurist Jim Carroll, you get more than a keynote.You get deep research, practical insight and actionable strategies.Let's start with this simple fact: Jim knows that it's your event. He is there to share his insight in a way that is relevant for your leadership team or audience. Jim prepares his keynote or talk with that fact first and foremost in his mind.With 33 years of providing opening and closing keynotes, Jim has become globally recognized for his effort to go above and beyond in providing you insight that is extensively researched, carefully crafted to your requirements, and delivered in the compelling motivational style for which he is known worldwide.Jim's insight is based on proven research and facts. His typical process involves accessing key articles, research papers and more from Dow Jones Factiva, the world's largest and most sophisticated deep research service. He'll often access upwards of 1,000-2,000 articles and reports specific to your industry and the topic at hand.His insight is customized, practical, actionable - and highly relevant. In that way, he is the unique topic expert that you need for your event.
A Proven Strategic Innovation Framework for Your Leadership Event
Jim Carroll will provide you with the detailed, extensively researched, highly customized disruptive trends and innovation insight that you need – on the future trends & innovation topic you require within your specific niche.He is known globally for his ability to provide concise, detailed insight for offsite CEO or CxO leadership events, and has been doing this for close to 30 years.His talks are based on extensive, original research, specific to your issues, strategies, and leadership requirements.Jim offers strategy, insight, and reality – not hype.This is what we will bring to your meeting or event.
Why Jim Carroll?
For 30+ years, Futurist Jim Carroll has been on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.Jim Carroll is the futurist that CEOs trust. His global client list demonstrates that they seek his accumulated 30 years of experience, wisdom, and insight, developed by the time he has spent with some of the leading organizations in the world.Jim’s leadership keynote will align you to your disruptive, accelerating future by providing detailed, specific industry trends. It’s powerful leadership insight delivered in a compelling and motivational style!You know you need to align to a world that is faster, more complex, and that demands resilience. You need deep insight into the trends that will impact you and the strategies that you can pursue to align with them. You need to inspire your leadership team and members to get moving. That’s how Jim Carroll will help you.Don’t just take Jim’s word for it. Join other leading organizations like NASA, Pfizer, The World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, and even Disney, all of whom arranged for Jim’s insight for a global leadership event or customer meeting – and came away empowered with new insight to take on our faster, more complex world.
Countless Global Leaders Turn to Jim Carroll For Leadership Insight
As a futurist and innovation thought leader for 30+ years, Jim has headlined dozens of events, many of them at corporate leadership meetings or client events - at a golf resort!Why not build into this a themed keynote that ties into the golf tournament you'll host with the event?Jim has a wonderful way of linking the acceleration of the world's favorite sport to the leadership issues at your event - many of the stories built upon the two times that the PGA of America invited him in to address the key disruptive issues impacting the game.In his keynote, he'll link these stories to the big issues your leaders in the room face - providing a perfect connection between your golf tournament and the leadership portion of your event!
CEO / CxO
Leadership Events
Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future.A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts.Jim is known for his presentations at these events which involve highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, a global track record, and detailed industry experience!
Customer & Client
Event Keynotes
Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before.That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events. It’s an opportunity to tell their story, position their products, outline their value proposition, and build relationships.Futurist Jim Carroll helps organizations deliver their key strategic message at these customer or client user group meetings with a highly customized keynote based on detailed industry and issue research.
Extensive Thought Leadership Insight
Jim has been sharing his insight on the global golf industry through his blog since 2002.In it, you will find dozens of posts about the leading disruptive trends, technologies, conceptsm and strategies that are redefining the sector.He also shares extensive insight on his two main websites.
30+ YEARS OF CEO-LEVEL LEADERSHIP INSIGHT
Your issues are critical; your leadership meeting is important; your success with your event is mandatory.You need a battle-tested proven expert who can deliver concise trends-oriented leadership insight.
he has 30+ years of well-honed stage presence and style
he has an established reputation as a thought leader with very detailed, extensive, industry-specific insight
he has been booked by CEOs worldwide, based on his reputation for delivering insight that is well-researched, fact-oriented, and forward-oriented.
Don’t trust your critical leadership to inexperience – because experience matters!
