Futurist Jim Carroll
KEYNOTE:
Food, Grocery & Restaurants: Innovation and Disruption at the Speed of Relentless Customer Change!
It is said today that the typical consumer today has the attention span of a goldfish, and that they scan some 12 feet of shelf space per second. New food taste trends used to take 5 years to move from high end restaurants to the mainstream consumer – but can now take as little as three months. Social media, food shows, food and chef stars – the world is full of new food trend influencers. Relentless inflation, supply challenges, and the impact of the pandemic upon shopping behavior has forever changed the relationship with the customer. Branding, marketing and customer outreach now happens at a speed that is faster than fast!
Futurist Jim Carroll
Author & Keynote Speaker
Trends And Innovation Expert
Futurist Jim Carroll is on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.He has been booked by CEOs of dozens of food, grocery and restaurant companies worldwide, for his thought leadership on the future of their industry.“I help CEOs, senior executives, and association leaders achieve their strategic objectives by aligning them with a disruptive, accelerating future. It’s actionable, powerful leadership insight based on detailed, specific industry trends – delivered within a fast-paced keynote with a compelling motivational style!”
– Jim Carroll
Keynote Overview
It is said today that the typical consumer today has the attention span of a goldfish, and that they scan some 12 feet of shelf space per second. New food taste trends used to take 5 years to move from high end restaurants to the mainstream consumer – but can now take as little as three months. Social media, food shows, food and chef stars – the world is full of new food trend influencers. Relentless inflation, supply challenges, and the impact of the pandemic upon shopping behavior has forever changed the relationship with the customer. Branding, marketing and customer outreach now happens at a speed that is faster than fast!Wherever you turn, the world of Food, Grocery & Restaurants innovation, branding, marketing, and advertising is now one defined by speed – and as Jim Carroll has shared with his many global clients in the sector – ‘the future belongs to those who are fast.’In this keynote, Futurist Jim Carroll provides attendees with an up-to-the-moment overview of the key trends redefining the sector, disrupting ideas, and allowing for faster innovation, based upon the extensive, customized research for which he is globally known.With his focus on turning any that into an opportunity, he will outline a clear path forward for bold, transformative thinking, and innovation strategies that are based on careful research of dozens of successful consumer product companies who have innovated successfully in this new, fast-paced world.
Sample Food, Grocery & Restaurant Clients
Customized Insight
When you work with Futurist Jim Carroll, you get more than a keynote.You get deep research, practical insight and actionable strategies.Let's start with this simple fact: Jim knows that it's your event. He is there to share his insight in a way that is relevant for your leadership team or audience. Jim prepares his keynote or talk with that fact first and foremost in his mind.With 33 years of providing opening and closing keynotes, Jim has become globally recognized for his effort to go above and beyond in providing you insight that is extensively researched, carefully crafted to your requirements, and delivered in the compelling motivational style for which he is known worldwide.Jim's insight is based on proven research and facts. His typical process involves accessing key articles, research papers and more from Dow Jones Factiva, the world's largest and most sophisticated deep research service. He'll often access upwards of 1,000-2,000 articles and reports specific to your industry and the topic at hand.His insight is customized, practical, actionable - and highly relevant. In that way, he is the unique topic expert that you need for your event.
A Proven Strategic Innovation Framework for Your Leadership Event
Jim Carroll will provide you with the detailed, extensively researched, highly customized disruptive trends and innovation insight that you need – on the future trends & innovation topic you require within your specific niche.He is known globally for his ability to provide concise, detailed insight for offsite CEO or CxO leadership events, and has been doing this for close to 30 years.His talks are based on extensive, original research, specific to your issues, strategies, and leadership requirements.Jim offers strategy, insight, and reality – not hype.This is what we will bring to your meeting or event.
Why Jim Carroll?
For 30+ years, Futurist Jim Carroll has been on a mission to help organizations understand how to align to tomorrow, today.Jim Carroll is the futurist that CEOs trust. His global client list demonstrates that they seek his accumulated 30 years of experience, wisdom, and insight, developed by the time he has spent with some of the leading organizations in the world.Jim’s leadership keynote will align you to your disruptive, accelerating future by providing detailed, specific industry trends. It’s powerful leadership insight delivered in a compelling and motivational style!You know you need to align to a world that is faster, more complex, and that demands resilience. You need deep insight into the trends that will impact you and the strategies that you can pursue to align with them. You need to inspire your leadership team and members to get moving. That’s how Jim Carroll will help you.Don’t just take Jim’s word for it. Join other leading organizations like NASA, Pfizer, The World Bank, Mercedes Benz, the PGA, Blackrock, the Wall Street Journal, and even Disney, all of whom arranged for Jim’s insight for a global leadership event or customer meeting – and came away empowered with new insight to take on our faster, more complex world.
Global Food, Grocery & Restaurant Leaders Turn to Jim Carroll For Leadership Insight
As a futurist and innovation thought leader for 30+ years, Jim has headlined dozens of technology and and media association events, as well as dozens of CEO-level corporate leadership meetings for tech and media companies.Consider this fact: Burger King invited him in to headline their annual global franchise conference, where he shared keynote duties with Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, and took the 10,000 attendees into a world of accelerating change, consumer shift and brand acceleration.
CEO / CxO
Leadership Events
Many CEO/CxO’s find it necessary to bring their teams together for a corporate offsite event to discuss, strategize, and align to a faster, transformative future.A fast future demands that organizations pick up the pace when it comes to their strategies, actions, and innovation efforts.Jim is known for his presentations at these events which involve highly customized insight, extensive pre-event consultations, a global track record, and detailed industry experience!
Customer & Client
Event Keynotes
Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning a product or service offerings to a customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before.That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events. It’s an opportunity to tell their story, position their products, outline their value proposition, and build relationships.Futurist Jim Carroll helps organizations deliver their key strategic message at these customer or client user group meetings with a highly customized keynote based on detailed industry and issue research.
Extensive Thought Leadership Insight
Jim has been sharing his insight on food, grocery and restaurant trends through his blog since 2002.In it, you will find dozens of posts about the leading disruptive trends, technologies, concepts and strategies that are redefining the sector.He also shares extensive insight on his two main websites.
30+ YEARS OF CEO-LEVEL LEADERSHIP INSIGHT
Your issues are critical; your leadership meeting is important; your success with your event is mandatory.You need a battle-tested proven expert who can deliver concise trends-oriented leadership insight.
he has 30+ years of well-honed stage presence and style
he has an established reputation as a thought leader with very detailed, extensive, industry-specific insight
he has been booked by CEOs worldwide, based on his reputation for delivering insight that is well-researched, fact-oriented, and forward-oriented.
Don’t trust your critical leadership to inexperience – because experience matters!
