Jim is one of the most versatile and witty futurists today. He focuses on creativity and innovation insight that is captured in his new book, Ready, Set, Done. He is also the author of What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.

o       What's Jim talking about? Global economic trends. Hyper-innovation. Rapid market change. The skills crisis. The collapse of product lifecycles. Managing Gen-Y. Corporate agility. Avoiding commoditization. Creating high performance, change oriented teams.

o       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 original research.

o       He does so in a very dynamic and motivational style, with presentations that involve his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations.

What's his background?

   Jim has 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, CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few.

   Before starting his speaking career, Jim provided strategic mgt consulting through his own firm from 1989 to 1993. For ten years before that, he was a chartered accountant with KPMG and Ernst & Young. These experiences provided a strategic and quantitative foundation in the issues faced by business professionals and executives.

Related client list

Towers Perrin Reinsurance, Canadian Reinsurance Association, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Aegon, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Florida, CGI, CGU Insurance, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Providence Healthcare, American Society for Health Care Risk Management, Great West Life, Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, KPMG Annual Insurance Industry conference, Mutual Service Corporation, North American Insurance Conference, Roche Diagnostics

How can he help you?

o   Future of risk -- a highly customized, futurist oriented presentation examining the new insurance vulnerabilities that are emerging in an increasingly complex, volatile world

o   Jim Carroll recently provided a highly customized keynote on "the future of risk" for the senior management team of Towers Perrin, and delivered the same talk for two major insurance companies, as well as a national reinsurance association conference. The talk examined the future of insurance risk on a long term basis, the culture of entitlement that has emerged in society, and how insurance companies must adapt to a future world of rapid, relentless change.

o   Business case issues, particularly with distribution channels - new business models, exploiting new opportunities in the insurance industry

o   Managing health in an era of constraint and challenge

o   Opening up the minds of health care workers and administrators to the potential of the future

o   A futuristic examination of impact of digital technology and connectivity of health care

o Jim provides unique, detailed, industry specific insight into workplace, business, economic, current event, social and cultural trends, as well as into demographic, lifestyle and technology issues, based on original research.

Insurance & Healthcare Industry Highlights

• Jim Carroll has extensive experience within the insurance industry, with both life and property/casualty industries, as well as reinsurers, medical insurers and underwriters, whether dealing with individual or group policies, or both.
• Mr. Carroll has spoken to CEO's, broker groups, employees and senior executives throughout the insurance industry. He has challenged all of them to realize that the industry is in a period of dramatic and substantial change, and that new thinking is required in order to meet the challenges that lie ahead. He is sensitive to existing relationships
• Jim provided a strategic planning workshop for the CEO and entire senior management team of Blue Cross/Blue Shield. His workshops examined the changing world of health insurance and health care, from both an individual and group perspective, and explored in an interactive setting what it takes to be an effective leader within the industry in the digital age
• Jim provided the opening keynote for about 3,000 health care professionals at the annual American Society for Health Care Risk Management in San Antonio, TX, with an indepth futurist view of key health care trends
• Jim provided the keynote for the annual international Professional Liability Underwriting Conference in Orlando, FL, on the topic Thriving on Change: How to Establish an Innovation Culture. The association, knowing that the industry is, bound in business practices and strategies that are subject to tremendous change, need a good wake up call to cope with the future
• He was the keynote speaker at the first annual North American Insurance Conference held in St. Petersburg, Florida, organized by Kingsway Financial. In attendance were senior management executives of major insurance companies from throughout North America, as well as senior financial regulators
• Mr. Carroll was retained by the high-tech consultancy/outsourcing firm, CGI to provide an intense, two day workshop session for CEO’s of a dozen major property/casualty companies, held in Nassau, Bahamas
• Jim's comments at the annual KPMG Insurance Industry conference had such an impact that they reprinted his observations in their client-oriented publication.
• Mr. Carroll's insight comes from direct experience within the industry -- as a Chartered Accountant with a predecessor firm of KPMG, Mr. Carroll was directly involved in the annual audit of Maritime Life, a division of John Hancock. He gets this business!