Jim Harris

Jim Harris

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto, Ontario

Futures, Strategy, Innovation, Change Expert

Jim Harris is a leading disruptive innovation speaker who is one of North America's foremost management consultants and thought leaders on change and leadership. Jim Harris is known for his future thinking and is ranked as a best business speaker for managing disruption, innoviation and business transormation.

JIM HARRIS BIOGRAPHY

Jim Harris is one of North Americas foremost management consultants, authors and thinkers on disruptive innovation, leadership, innovation, organizational change, future trends and mitigating risk. Association Magazine ranked him as one of the nation’s top-ten speakers. As a management consultant, Jim Harris speaks internationally and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams.  He focuses on many of the most pressing issues in business, including:

  • Future Trends and Disruptive Innovation
  • Collaborative Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Leading Organizational Change
  • Creating Learning Organization as well as Big Data & CRM.

Jim Harris also offers presentations on strategic planning amid complexity, disruptive innovation and creating a common mission/vision. A staggering 88% of CEOs say innovation is important to growing their top line and increasing profitability, according to a study by Leger Marketing in conjunction with The Globe and Mail. Yet only 33% of CEOs are happy with the current results they are achieving. These future trends presentations focus on how to drive growth and profitability.

Jim Harris has worked extensively with the health care sector, government, financial services, retailers, and professional services firms. As a management consultant, he works with leading businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and organizations aspiring to join these ranks. For several years Harris represented the Covey Leadership Center in Canada, teaching Dr. Stephen Covey’s work, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He was also one of the first seven Canadians personally trained by Al Gore to present the slide show for An Inconvenient Truth.

Jim Harris disruptive innovation speaker, is a catalyst for conversation and change. He excels at leading people to new ways of thinking – making productive, profitable change possible. His sessions are highly informative, thought-provoking, interactive, and lots of fun!

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Joel Beasley

AI, People, and the Power of Curiosity with Jim Harris, Keynote Speaker and International Bestselling Author

Jim Harris Topic Presentations

disruption turbo charging innovation - a decade of change in just two and a half years

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • We have seen a decade of change for many industries in the last two and a half years:

    • In November of 2022, Tesla was worth more than the top 18 traditional car companies combined! If you don’t think that electrification and autonomous vehicles are going to change the $10 trillion a year transportation market, think again.
    • In June 2022, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said only 20% of the US-based workers are back in the office 3 days or more. The long-term impacts on commercial real estate?
    • The Great Resignation, Work from Home, and Hybrid work are challenging traditional ways of working. Strategies for thriving in this new employment environment.
    • In China, 50% of all medical visits in 2021 were by telehealth. In the US, McKinsey estimated that in 2021, there were more than a billion telemedicine visits a year.
    • In the first 90 days of the pandemic, eCommerce experienced a decade of growth!
    • In 2019, Zoom had 10 million daily users. In the first 90 days of the pandemic (Mar-May 2022), it had 300 million downloads – shattering all records for business apps.
    • Uber is worth more than every cab company in America combined! While the industry owns billions of dollars of assets (taxis & limos), Uber doesn’t own one vehicle.

    In this highly interactive, fun, and engaging session, Jim Harris will explore what tech and societal trends are driving permanent change in customer behaviour. More than 30% of the total time will be members talking in pairs and in large group discussions. After a recent session, a CEO said: “I can’t believe that was three hours! The time just flew by.”

revolutionizing business success: unleashing the power of chatgpt

exponential organizations - why some firms are 10 times better, faster & cheaper than traditional companies

thriving in the era of disruptive innovation

reaping the benefits of differences for collaboration and engagement

surviving & thriving through innovation

managing change and leveraging creativity

future trends that are changing your business and industry

the impact of the internet of things on organizations

social media endorsement: jim harris the social influencer

Testimonials

Jim’s session was one of the most highly rated and I am certain that we will work with him in the future. What was particularly noteworthy was the accessibility and relevance of his material. Jim’s friendly, open style is critical in encouraging participants to take the material on board and shift their thinking.

Geoff Merchant

Centre for Management & Policy Studies
UK Cabinet Office

As if the enthusiastic response of our audience wasn’t enough, the results of our post conference survey are conclusive: you were a major hit! In fact, the response of 2,000 delegates closely paralleled my own assessment: the content was on target, the presentation superlative

President
Mackenzie Financial

Jim Harris was a wonderful speaker. The delegates and I really enjoyed his presentation and he was extremely professional.

Mirissa Caldarola

Senior Coordinator
Events Supply Chain Management Association

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Blindsided - How to Spot the Next Breakthrough That Will Change Your Business
THE LEARNING PARADOX
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THE LEARNING PARADOX

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