Fee Range for Jim Carroll
$30,001 - $35,000
Jim Carroll's Videos
Videos & Resources
Strategic Clarity on AI (Interviewed by an AI avatar for a possible keynote - which he got)
LATEST BOOKS:
Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win!
In his latest book Jim Carroll states that in a world racing toward sameness, your difference is the only edge that matters.
AI now hands everyone the same tools, the same information, and increasingly the same ideas. When everyone has the same magic, is there any magic left? Futurist Jim Carroll, who has delivered over 2,000 keynotes to more than 2 million people for NASA, Disney, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, and 1,500 of the world's leading organizations, argues that the answer to a homogenized future isn't to compete on sameness. It's to become gloriously, strategically unique.
Being Unique makes a bold case: the safe path is now the riskiest route. When everyone runs in the same direction, the opportunity is always the other way. The rebels, the odd ones out, and the crazy ones don't just survive change, they define the change everyone else scrambles to catch up to.
Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times
In this 160-page book, AI and tech speaker Jim Carroll provides powerful insight into how leaders can move forward despite uncertainty, find opportunities despite volatility, and achieve success despite a lack of clarity.
In a world defined by relentless economic uncertainty, disruption, and unpredictable market shifts, the default reaction is often to retreat, cut back, and wait. But what if you could do more than just survive? What if you could learn to dance in the rain?
"Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times" by Futurist Jim Carroll offers a bold, actionable alternative. Drawing on decades of experience advising global organizations, Carroll challenges the conventional wisdom of "hunker down and wait," proving it's not just wrong—it's dangerous.
"The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast"
We live in a period of time in which change is happening faster than ever before. Success will come to those who innovate, change and adapt! Jim Carroll's book The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast features the best of the insight from Jim's blog, in which he covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.
Jim Carroll
One of the world's Leading A.I. &
Emerging Technology Experts
About Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll is widely regarded as one of the world’s most respected keynote conference speakers on artificial intelligence & emerging technologies.
Jim is a futurist, author and keynote speaker known for deeply researched, industry-specific insight into what comes next.
For more than three decades, he has helped organizations understand AI, accelerating technology, disruption and transformation - turning complex trends into clear opportunities and actionable strategies.
Given the extent of his research and customization for each and every keynote, Jim Carroll's presentations are particularly well-suited for the following industries:
- Agriculture/Farming
- Consumer Products
- Energy & Utilities
- Financial Services
- Food / Grocery / Restaurant
- Healthcare / Pharma / Life Sciences
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Media & Technology
Jim Carroll's Expertise
- Future Trends & Foresight — More than 30 years of research into the forces reshaping industries, turned into a clear view of what changes next and what to do about it.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) — How generative AI, machine intelligence and automation change an industry's economics, operating model, workforce and competitive position.
- Industry Disruption & Transformation — Identifying the risks and opportunities that emerge as technology, markets and customer behaviour rewrite the rules of a sector.
- Customized Industry Research — Typically 25 to 50+ hours of fresh research into each client's organization, audience and sector before every major keynote.
- Leadership Agility & Speed — A practical playbook for leading through volatility and moving faster, built on his Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast framework and his book Dancing in the Rain.
- Innovation & Creativity — Unlocking the creative capacity already inside teams and rethinking the strategic pipeline to accelerate growth.
- Workforce Transformation & Skills — Closing skills gaps as the pace of change outruns the workforce, and building organizations that learn faster.
- Differentiation & Original Thinking — Why curiosity and nonconformity are competitive advantages when AI makes ideas look the same; the focus of his 2026 book Being Unique.
- Healthcare & Life Sciences — The future of medicine, pharma and scientific acceleration, with clients including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
- Agriculture & Food — Resilience, data, climate and supply-chain change across farming and food systems, a sector he has addressed since the mid-1990s.
- Manufacturing, Construction & Infrastructure — Intelligent plants, data-rich jobsites, automation, advanced materials and smart infrastructure.
- Insurance & Financial Services — The future of risk, banking and financial services in an era of AI-driven change.
- Automotive, Transportation & Energy — Electrification, autonomy, digital mobility and the transformation of energy and utilities.
- Global Economic Development — Long-range foresight for governments and global institutions, including The World Bank and the UAE Prime Minister's Office.
- Board & Executive Strategy — Customized sessions for CEOs, CxOs, boards and trustees on governance, judgment and better decisions in a faster world.
Jim Carroll's Bio
Jim Carroll is a Canadian futurist and keynote speaker based in Guelph, Ontario, who helps organizations understand how artificial intelligence, accelerating technology and economic volatility will change their specific industry, and what their leaders should do about it. Over more than 30 years, he has delivered over 2,000 keynotes to more than 2 million people in over 60 countries.
What sets his work apart is preparation. Before a major keynote, Jim typically spends 25 to 50 or more hours researching the client's organization, sector and audience: talking with stakeholders, working through industry reports and market data, and studying the event agenda. Each engagement begins as a written brief that maps the trends, risks and opportunities facing that particular room. After one keynote for a global agricultural organization, an audience member asked him how long he had been a farmer.
His client list spans space, entertainment, medicine and global development. NASA has invited him twice, including a session on the commercialization of space for astronauts and engineers. He has spoken on the future of healthcare for Pfizer, on creativity and innovation for The Walt Disney Company, and on economic development for The World Bank, including its International Finance Corporation in Marrakesh. The Prime Minister's Office of the United Arab Emirates commissioned his keynote "The Future in 5 Perspectives," which mapped megatrends across the economy, technology, the environment, society and government through 2035.
Artificial intelligence now runs through most of his engagements, but Jim treats it as an industry question rather than a technology topic. He shows how generative AI and automation affect a sector's economics, workforce, customer relationships and competitive structure, and how organizations can move from experimentation to real operating advantage. He has brought that approach to insurance, financial services, manufacturing, construction and infrastructure, agriculture and food, automotive and transportation, energy and utilities, retail and healthcare.
Jim works equally well in front of very large audiences, including the 40,000 attendees of the PGA of America Merchandise Show, and in small CEO, board and trustee sessions. Other clients include Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Johnson & Johnson, SAP, the BBC and the World Government Summit in Dubai. Event organizers regularly point to his fast pace, visual storytelling and humour as the reason audiences stay with the research.
BusinessWeek named him one of four leading sources for insight on creativity and innovation, and he was a featured expert on CNBC's prime-time series The Business of Innovation. His work has been covered by the BBC, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. His books include Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win! (2026), Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times (2025), Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast, and The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast (2012). Jim holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University.
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Jim Carroll's Presentation Topics
Jim Carroll travels from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He offers a range of presentation formats — including keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, and moderated Q&A — on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats. All of Jim’s programs can be delivered as a keynote (45–75 minutes) or as a workshop (1.5–3 hours).
FUTURE TRENDS
The Opportunity Horizon: What Changes Next in Your Industry, and What to Do About It +
When the brief is: Our audience needs to understand what changes in our industry between now and 2030, and leave optimistic and ready to act.
In a world of relentless change, the greatest risk is not disruption itself - it is failing to see the next wave early enough. Jim cuts through the noise to identify the critical forces that will define the next decade of the client's industry: AI, economic volatility, supply-chain reinvention, genomics, workforce transformation and other sector-specific shifts. The keynote moves beyond trend spotting to a practical framework for identifying transformative opportunity, mitigating emerging risk and aligning strategy to what is coming next. Every version is rebuilt around the sector in the room, whether manufacturing, financial services, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, retail or another industry. --
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The AI Acceleration Advantage: What AI Changes in Your Industry, Your Workforce and Your Competitive Model +
When the brief is: We need an AI keynote that is not another generic ChatGPT presentation.
This is not a keynote about AI in the abstract. It is about what AI changes in the client's business. Jim translates generative AI, machine intelligence and automation into a clear view of their impact on the industry's economics, operating model, workforce, customer experience and competitive structure. He also addresses the Acceleration Paradox: the future is increasingly won not by what a team knows now, but by how quickly it learns what it needs to know next. The result is a practical roadmap for moving from experimentation to real operating advantage, closing skills gaps and using people and technology together as an engine for growth. --
LEADERSHIP
Lead at the Speed of Change: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast +
When the brief is: Our leadership team understands change, but is not moving fast enough.
Speed has become a defining competitive advantage, yet many organizations remain slowed by uncertainty, legacy thinking and fear of disruption. Jim turns that challenge into a practical leadership playbook for building agile, resilient and high-performing teams. Drawing on lessons from organizations that moved decisively through difficult economic periods, he shows leaders how to make faster decisions, lead through ambiguity, unlock the creative potential inside their teams and use volatility as an opportunity to transform. The keynote is grounded in his Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast framework and the leadership lessons of Dancing in the Rain. --
CULTURE + CREATIVITY
Being Unique: Why the Odd One Out Gets to the Future Faster +
When the brief is: Our people need a reason - and permission - to think differently in the age of AI.
AI has given everyone access to many of the same tools, data and increasingly similar ideas. The strategic danger is sameness. In a fast-moving world, organizations that think like everyone else tend to arrive at the future at the same time as everyone else - which is often too late. This provocative keynote makes the case that differentiation, curiosity and constructive nonconformity are now hard-edged business advantages. Jim reframes uniqueness as an acceleration strategy: the quality AI cannot commoditize, and a powerful route to original thinking, stronger culture and competitive edge. The keynote is based on his 2026 book Being Unique. --
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Frequently Asked Questions About Jim Carroll
Who is Jim Carroll? +
Jim Carroll is a globally recognized futurist and keynote speaker specializing in artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and business innovation. For more than 30 years, he has delivered more than 2,000 keynotes to over 2 million people worldwide. --
What topics does Jim Carroll speak about? +
Jim covers artificial intelligence and generative AI, future trends and foresight, industry disruption and transformation, leadership agility, workforce transformation, innovation, and industry-specific megatrends. His signature keynotes are The Opportunity Horizon: What Changes Next in Your Industry, and What to Do About It; The AI Acceleration Advantage: What AI Changes in Your Industry, Your Workforce and Your Competitive Model; Lead at the Speed of Change: Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; and Being Unique: Why the Odd One Out Gets to the Future Faster. --
Which companies has Jim Carroll worked with? +
Jim has advised organizations including NASA, Disney, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Pfizer, The World Bank, Volvo, SAP, the BBC, and the PGA of America. --
What makes Jim Carroll's keynotes different? +
Each keynote is deeply customized and research-driven, tailored to a client's specific industry—such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, agriculture, or energy—rather than a generic, one-size-fits-all presentation. --
What books has Jim Carroll written? +
Jim is the author of numerous books. His recent titles include Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win! (2026), on differentiation in an AI-saturated world; Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times (2025), on leading through economic uncertainty; and Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast, his playbook for momentum in an era of acceleration. Earlier work includes The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast (2012), drawn from his blog's insight on innovation and future trends. --
Is Jim Carroll available for events outside of Guelph, Ontario, Canada? +
Yes. Jim speaks all across Canada and is frequently hired to present in the USA, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and internationally. Jim is also available for virtual presentations. --
How much does it cost to book Jim Carroll, and how do I check his availability? +
Commensurate with his reputation, technical and AI knowledge, experience, and status as a best-selling author, futurist Jim Carroll's current fee range is $30,001–$35,000, with final pricing confirmed through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows based on event format, location, audience size and customization. Contact K&M Productions to check date availability and arrange a pre-event call. --
Is Jim Carroll represented by a speakers bureau in Canada, and how is the booking contract handled? +
Jim Carroll is directly represented by K&M Productions Speakers & Shows Canada for all Canadian, USA and International speaking engagements, including booking coordination, contract management, and event logistics. Working with a professional speakers bureau like K&M Productions ensures a seamless experience for event planners and meeting planners — covering support requests, contracts, billing, and payments from start to finish. --
How do I contact Jim Carroll to check availability and begin the booking process for events in Canada? +
To check Jim Carroll's availability for your Canadian, USA or international conference, contact K&M Productions Speakers & Shows directly. Their team will confirm open dates, discuss your event details, and guide you through the booking process. Event planners and meeting planners are encouraged to schedule a pre-event consultation call to clarify format, audience, objectives, and speaker expectations. Once your event requirements are confirmed, written booking confirmation follows upon contract execution — ensuring a clear, professional agreement for all parties. --
This speaker profile was last updated by K&M Productions on October 4, 2026.
What Clients are Saying About Jim Carroll
We invited Jim to give us an assessment of how our industry will change over the next 10 years. We have never seen a more compelling, concise, and motivating presentation.
–Mercedes-Benz
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
I can think of no greater keynote speaking 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
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!
–The Walt Disney Company
…there's no doubt your talk will provoke on going discussions at all levels in the BBC for months to come.
–British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)