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"Our Brightest Minds -- and the Strategic Value of Thought Leadership Speakers"
by Jim Carroll, FCA - Global futurist, trends & innovation expert
With the launch of Future Voices Speakers Bureau, some of you might be wondering, "can these people really help me?"
The answer is an unqualified yes!
Obviously, if you are spending time on Shaping Tomorrow, you've got a keen interest in what comes next. You are busy rethinking strategies; you are working hard to understand how your business models, industry structure, competitive challenges, product lifecycles, skills capabilities and brand resonance will change in the future.
Your goal, obviously, is to gain the understanding that is necessary in shaping your organization for the future.
Steering an organization into the future is often akin to navigating a ship. You can only get so much momentum, and when it necessary to take a change in direction, it takes a lot of time for the turn to take effect.
That's where the role of a high profile futurist with a track record comes in. We help you to steer the ship.
I spend my time with a large number of global Fortune 1000 organizations, associations and government bodies. I'm often called in by a CEO or other member of senior management to achieve one particular goal: to help to place emphasis on the issues, challenges and opportunities that the organization faces in the future. In many cases, senior management knows what needs to be done; but being aware of the art of leadership, they also know that they must carefully lead their team through what are often, significant mindset changes.
As I write this, I'm preparing keynote presentations for a global travel company; a national recreation association; one of the world's largest commercial real estate organizations; and a global logistics and supply chain association.
In each and every case, the individuals who have engaged me know that their industry and the world they live in is set for deep, systemic, transformational change. They have a compelling sense of urgency. They know that maybe the rest of their team does not share the sentiment; they're suffering from organizational sclerosis; their ability to understand the future is clogged up by todays' short term focus.
The leadership team -- including you -- knows that they need to wake their people up, shake them out of their complacency, and give them a clear understanding that they had better start thinking about the future -- and fast -- in order to keep up with high velocity change. And perhaps, if they are lucky, stay one step ahead of everyone else.
That's what we in the Future Voices Speakers Bureau do. We've chosen a career path that has us assisting organizations in making the transition into the future. I've been doing this for well over fifteen years.
And I'm surrounded in the launch of the Future Voices speakers bureau by an astonishing array of talent. Together, the speakers involved in the launch of future voices have well over a 1,000 years of experience in assisting organizations in steering their way into the future.
You can't find a more effective group of people to assist you in getting to where you know you do need to go to.
We look forward to working with you.
Jim Carroll is one of Canada's most prominent futurist and global best-selling author with numerous clients worldwide. Read Jim's complete profile here.