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Healthcare Trends & Transformation: What Medical Professionals Must Do in an Era of Constant Change

What happens in a world in which the patient has been information empowered? Where medical devices are routinely connected into a smart-grid that allows for a healthcare system in which wired caregivers and connected doctors play an increasing role? When the pace of growth of medical knowledge exceeds the capability of the average medical professional to keep up? Carroll addresses these issues, and many others, in a customized presentation designed to help healthcare executives, administrators and professionals understand how our entire concept of medicine and healthcare delivery is changing as a result of the flood of significant new trends and developments.

What Comes Next? (...and What Should You Do About It?)

A company needs to understand how it can adequately plan for the unique challenges that are set to emerge as the pace of innovation and change continues to speed up. This riveting keynote presentation on the future will leave you motivated, challenged, curious - and driven to deal with change! The future continues to rush towards us at a breath-taking pace. Carroll can provide you with the critical insight you need to ensure that you can control your future, rather than have it control you!

How to Become a Forward Thinking Organization

In an era in which the only certainty is uncertainty, it is critical that organizations learn to anticipate and control the future before it controls them. They must learn to understand how future trends will affect them - whether it be with their markets, customers, the competition, business models, corporate structure, or product and service innovation. Carroll believes that far too many organizations have let their staff drift into a culture of complacency. They've allowed an attitude of "we've always done it that way" to creep into place - and that phrase has become the foundation upon which they strategize and prepare for the future. Now wonder they struggle to survive, and fail to spot countless new opportunities! In this highly customized presentation, Carroll helps organizations learn how to become more forward thinking in their views. He wakes them up, shakes them up, and helps them become attuned to the challenges and opportunities of the future, rather than mired in the mundane issues of today and the problems of the past.

Thriving on Change! How to Create an Innovation Culture

With the collapse of the hey-day 90's, too many organizations have lost their courage to move forward. Yet every organization continues to be threatened by a multiple number of factors: empowered consumers, global competition, price commoditization, the impact of technology and global connectivity, and a focus on quality. It's time to provide some "innovation oxygen" to your organization in order to keep going forward with the future, instead of concentrating on the past.

Coping with Ketchup: How to Adapt to a World of Constant Change

In case you haven't noticed, Heinz has turned their ketchup bottle upside down, and it's causing havoc in homes around the world. Using this phenomenon as a metaphor, Carroll explains his perspective that adults in the workforce are of a generation that is uniquely incapable of coping with change. They've been through a tumultuous time in the workplace, one that has involved fare more change than ever before. And the simple fact is that they aren't conditioned to cope with change in the same way that young people are. The result is that they react by rebelling against change, or simply, don't change. That's the focus of this fast-paced, hilarious, fun and challenging presentation that helps people understand their barriers to change, and learn how to break through those barriers.

Keep the Faith: Motivating Staff in a Time of Challenge and Change

There is no doubt that these are challenging and perilous times. A constant stream of negativity, fear, and concern envelopes the workplace, as the result of an extended period of uncertainty. People are worried about their jobs, their careers, and their lives. They head to work each and every day, wondering what is going to happen next. The impact can be dramatic. When people are faced with rapid, unexplained, relentless, and ongoing negativity, they need a motivational message to set them going again. That's where Jim Carroll comes in! Carroll motivates people by helping them understand that the future is still very much in front of us. He clearly articulates the challenges faced by an organization, but then puts into perspective how the future is going to unfold. By doing so, he defines for people the opportunities and challenges that they face - and encourages them to grab onto the future, rather than focusing on the difficulties of the past. It is a unique approach to the issue of motivation. As a "motivational futurist for the digital age," Carroll is renowned for the impact that his presentation has on people.

Hyper-boomers, Gen-Connect and Manure Managers: How the Heck Do We Manage the Skills Challenges of the Future?

Jim 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+ 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. 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. Invite Jim to share 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.

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.

Customized Topics Just For You!

Global clients such as Disney, DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, Nestle and Motorola didn't choose Jim for a canned speech - they chose Jim because of his worldwide reputation for providing a highly customized, energizing and unique presentation into the future, innovation, and issues of creativity that directly relates to their issues, challenges, opportunities and concerns.

Jim works with you and undertakes detailed research to prepare a customized presentation that meets your needs. He does what you need him to do: he addresses your issues, goals and opportunities, in the framework of his expertise as a global trends, innovation and change expert.

In doing so, he comes up with some wonderfully customized, serious or quirky title presentations for your keynote that will be sure to engage your audience right off the bat.

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Speaker Information

Trends, the future, innovation, creativity - that's the focus of internationally recognized futurist Jim Carroll!

Jim was recently named as one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity by Business Week. His observations on trends and creativity are frequently covered in Fortune magazine's Business Innovation Insider Blog.

There's no wonder that such global publications are picking up on Jim's key message: rapid times require bold change and new levels of creativity and innovation within every organization ... and Jim is known for effecting compelling change with lasting results. That's why Jim's recent clients include global organizations such as Disney, DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, Nestle, Motorola, Towers Perrin, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Waters Corporation, the Swiss Innovation Forum, Verizon, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, SAP, and the American Nursery and Landscape Association.

Jim has delivered his insight to audiences in Zurich, New York, Vancouver, Palm Springs, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Costa Rica, Nassau and Stockholm, to name but a few. He is recognized worldwide for presentations, that involve his signature humor, high-level energy, deep insight and challenging observations, all of which are based on extensive research and customization.

Jim is completely focused on creativity and innovation - insight that is found in his latest book, What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation. He is currently working hard on his next book, The Masters of Business Imagination Handbook: Ideas for Recharging Your Innovation and Creativity Capability.

What's Jim talking about? Global economic trends; hyper-innovation; rapid time to market; the latest consumer trends; collapse of product lifecycles and high-velocity marketing; the skills crisis, managing Gen-connect and the new workplace; creating high performance, change oriented teams.

You name it - this global thought leader is talking about it.

Jim's experience and ability to customize each engagement allows him to be able to address almost any industry. He has undertaken detailed research into a wide variety of industry trends, including agriculture, health care, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, retail, consumer products, economic development, financial services, insurance,
education, and many others.

Jim is a prolific author, media commentator and award winning columnist. He has provided his insight in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with organizations such as ABC News, CNN, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), INC, CEO Magazine Hungary, Texas Meetings & Events, American Way Magazine, Meeting News, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT. As a columnist, he has written over 600 articles for a wide variety of national and international publications. He is an award winning columnist, has been listed as "One of 50 International Names to Know" by the Online Journalism Review published by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and was recently honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by a major national new media organization.

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Testimonials

"Thank you so much for being a part of our 2005 VHA Georgia Leadership Expo and kicking off our event. You were excellent! We could not have asked for a more appropriate opening. You were able to describe the challenges of the health care industry as it related to our audience and our business of supply chain and networking. Your presentation was advanced enough to hold the attention of the executives and your anecdotes used to illustrate your points were entertaining but basic enough for even non-healthcare attendees to follow."

- VHA Georgia

"Jim delivered a thought provoking workshop that set the stage for our 5 year strategic planning session. Our management team was challenged to think differently based on Jim's valuable and segment specific insight into the future. He exceeded our expectations!"

- Canadian Medical Association