Innovation, creativity, trends and change -- that's the focus of internationally recognized futurist Jim Carroll!

Global economic trends. China and offshoring. Hyper-innovation. Rapid market change. The skills crisis. Shortened product lifecylces. Managing Gen-Y. The future of health care. Avoiding commoditization. Creating high performance, change oriented teams. Those are just a few of the topic areas that Jim Carroll has focused on lately.

Jim Carroll has a passion for effecting compelling change with lasting results.

What he does:

• he provides unique, detailed, customized insight into workplace, business, economic, current event, social and cultural trends, as well as into demographic, lifestyle and technology issues, based on highly original research.
• he sets the stage for organizations to become more competitive, innovative and adaptable, and that are open to the opportunities of the future.
• delivered in a very dynamic and motivational style, with presentations that involve his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations.
• Shares intimate, detailed strategic planning for CEO/board/senior management meetings. 
• each presentation is unique and customized. Clients value the time Jim takes to "know" their industry or profession, their issues and concerns.

Feature Topic:

• What's Happening with Our Workforce: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Skills Agility
  
  Join international futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll as he explores some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today, particularly with an increasingly complex, restless, age-diverse disloyal, and highly specialized workforce.  With the coming "end of retirement," most companies will come to realize they'll need a lot of telephones with big buttons for members the 70+ folks who are still a part of their workforce -- and a lot of innovative workplace practices as well. That's but one challenge -- the arrival of "Gen-Connect" -- the kids who have been wired with a mouse since birth -- will lead to the question of whether "good luck" will be the only possible response to the question of "Managing Gen-Y." This workplace weirdness will only be compounded by the ongoing rapid evolution of knowledge and skills, such that most organizations will find it impossible to find the highly specialized skills needed in the economy of the future. The "War for Talent" will be the new competitive battleground, and organizations that can attract, engage, retain and amuse an increasingly complex workforce will be the ones who find success in the rapidly evolving global economy.

And more:

• The China Price and Outsourcing
• Key Leadership Strategies for the High Velocity Economy
• What do Innovative Companies Do? 
• Avoiding Market Commoditization
• Coping with Hyper-Change
• A Day in the Life: The World of Healthcare in 2030 from the Patient's Perspective 
• The Future of Risk
• The Future of Activism 

What's his background?

• Author of What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation and the new book, Ready, Set, Done How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast.
• Provided his insight in dozens of books, in over 600 articles, and in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with media exposure and interviews with ABC News, INC, Fast Company, Texas Meetings and Events, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, CNBC, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few.
• Recognized by Business Week as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity.

Jim has customized programs for a variety of industries such as:

agriculture, banking, consumer products, consulting, economic development, government, high-tech, law, pharmaceutical, credit unions, education, financial services, accounting, healthcare, insurance, small business and travel.