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What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy

Business Week recently named Jim Carroll as one of the four world’s leading sources for innovation insight, and he was featured as an innovation expert on a global broadcast of the CNBC show, The Business of Innovation. It’s no wonder -- Jim has carefully studied the key strategies and leadership ideas that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity.

Jim has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries. His latest book (set for release in the fall of 2007), Ready, Set, DONE! How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, captures the necessity for urgent innovation in order to remain competitive in the high velocity economy.

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What's Happening with Our Workforce: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy

Join international futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll as he explores some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today.

With the coming "end of retirement," most companies will come to realize they'll need a lot of telephones with big buttons for members of the 70+ folk 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.

Are we really in an economy in which there is an emerging profession of folks known as "manure managers?" You bet -- and it's all part of the unique issues that companies must begin thinking about today.

Jim's unique insight into emerging HR trends is in high demand – 3,000 members of the International Human Resource Information Management Association recently heard him put the issues in context on stage in Dallas, Texas. Join Jim as he shares his insight into the trends that you are already faced with, and the innovative and creative ways that you can come to grips with the depth of the challenges ahead.

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What Comes Next? Leadership Insight for the High-Velocity Economy

Where will we be in 2010? What challenges and opportunities will we face? In a world of massive globalization, what will our markets, customers, industries and organizational structures look like? Some of the biggest organizations in the world – including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Chrysler, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the BBC, Motorola and Nestle -- have sought this insight from Jim Carroll.

As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim Carroll has become globally recognized as one of the world’s leading international futurists. In a highly customized presentation, he outlines the major trends that will impact you, and what you need to start doing now in order to respond.

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Leading the Future: Key Leadership Strategies for the High Velocity Economy

We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless, rapid change. That’s why leading edge organizations look to futurist, innovation and trends expert Jim Carroll for a keynote/executive briefing or workshop that clearly focuses on how to develop and engender the leadership skills of the 21st Century. As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim has become recognized for his keen insight into the necessary leadership skills of today. He outlines the major attributes that the future-oriented leaders of today have adapted:

a) The ability to link the corporate mission of today to the major trends and developments that will influence the organization through the coming years.

b) A leadership style that encourages a culture of agility, one that allows for a rapid response to sudden change in products, markets, competitive challenges, and other business, technological and workplace trends.

c) An organization wide trends-radar, in which all staff keep a keen eye on the trends and developments that will affect the organization in the future, and are prepared to share their insight, observations and recommendations.

d) A corporate culture in which staff are encouraged to not only deal with the unique and ongoing challenges of today, but are open and responsive to the new challenges yet to come.

e) A performance oriented focus in which people are encouraged to turn new challenges into opportunities, rather than viewing change as a threat to be feared.

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In his keynote presentations and workshops, he focuses on issues related to your needs. He approaches every assignment with a view to crafting together a riveting presentation that will speak directly to the issues your industry, association, organization or company faces, by undertaking extensive research and consultations.

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Client Comments >>>

"I can think of no greater keynote speaker presentation through which I've sat ...the thought leadership and action provoking sentiments that he evokes are truly remarkable. Without question, his insights are what many companies need as numerous organizations begin their climb out of some of the troubling days of late and into the revitalized times ahead."
SAP North America

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"We were extremely pleased with Jim's presentation...the content was great and would hopefully prompt people to think about the rapidity of change going on in our world!"
Walt Disney Corporation

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"I knew from the moment you used a ketchup bottle to effectively illustrate how change impacts all of us that your presentation would be anything but typical. You were spectacular! ..... Feedback on you and your presentation were phenomenally positive. Our attendees were particularly impressed with how you demonstrated ways in which they could immediately apply what they had learned."
American Payroll Association

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"Everyone thought that you completely underscored the importance of creativity and innovation with a presentation full of energy and compelling information."
CBS/Infinity Broadcasting

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"Most of the crowd and management agreed that you were the best keynote speaker we've had in the last few years."
National Rural Telephone Association

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

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"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

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

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