Adam Carroll

Adam Carroll

IA, US
Inspiring stories and lessons on innovation, entrepreneurship and wealth building from a TED.com featured speaker with over 4 million views.

Adam Carroll is a sought after keynote speaker, workshop leader, and innovative agent of change within organizations. Over the past 15 years, Adam has helped shape the culture of companies in health care, higher education, telecommunications, and financial services. 

He is an internationally recognized financial literacy speaker, author of three Amazon best-sellers, a two-time TED talk speaker with over 5 million views on YouTube, and is the creator of the Broke, Busted & Disgusted documentary which aired on CNBC and is shown in hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country. Over 750 Universities have invited Adam in as a guest lecturer, routinely to packed out audiences. 

Adam's passion is helping people and organizations think and act more innovatively, showing how to execute on big ideas through entrepreneurial thinking, leveraging your network, and strategic communication. 

When Adam isn't speaking at conferences, consulting with companies, or hosting leadership retreats in exotic locations, you'll most likely find him at home shooting hoops or having Nerf wars with his kids.

Adam Carroll is a sought after keynote speaker, workshop leader, and innovative agent of change within organizations. Over the past 15 years, Adam has helped shape the culture of companies in health care, higher education, telecommunications, and financial services. 

He is an internationally recognized financial literacy speaker, author of three Amazon best-sellers, a two-time TED talk speaker with over 5 million views on YouTube, and is the creator of the Broke, Busted & Disgusted documentary which aired on CNBC and is shown in hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country. Over 750 Universities have invited Adam in as a guest lecturer, routinely to packed out audiences. 

Adam's passion is helping people and organizations think and act more innovatively, showing how to execute on big ideas through entrepreneurial thinking, leveraging your network, and strategic communication. 

When Adam isn't speaking at conferences, consulting with companies, or hosting leadership retreats in exotic locations, you'll most likely find him at home shooting hoops or having Nerf wars with his kids.

Build A Bigger Life

In today's frenzied work environment, our lives tend to be consumed with emails, meetings, and reports that don't always make our lives feel bigger, but much much smaller.

To Build A Bigger Life, the key is to get centered on your values, reconnect to a bigger vision, and begin asking the questions only YOU can answer. The life you most desire is within reach, but only if you trust that you are the architect of your life starting today.

This fast-paced, interactive...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Mastery of Money For Students

It is said we should all be pursuing mastery of something. Why not pursue mastery of money - one of the things that will impact you your entire life!

Whether we know it or not, we're all playing a game with money and at any given time we're either winning or losing. The problem is, most Americans were never taught the rules of how to play the game. Play by the rules, and it's entirely possible to have mastery of money by your early 30's. Make the rules up as you go and...
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Multipliers

People generally fall into one of four categories -- you're either an adder, a subtracter, a divider or a multiplier. Multipliers make more money, have more influence, affect more change, and are able to accomplish more in the same amount of time. Why is that? 

In this interactive and humorous keynote, you'll learn the subtle differences in language, attitude, and habits that make up multipliers. The core takeaways alone will have you interacting with those around you...
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The Real Business We're In

It's easy to get caught up in the day to day running of your credit union. Loan applications need to be taken, deposits received, checks cashed, members served... throw in the planning and executing of a core conversion or a new branch and a year passes in the snap of your fingers. But for a credit union to succeed in the midst of market pressures, changing economic winds, and competition from all angles, we have to get centered on the one thing that makes us different. It's this ONE slight...
InnovationEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Is Your Credit Union By Design or By Default?

There are two environments that we live in everyday, like the two ends of a teeter-totter. Both are exceptionally important, and both help generate results. The challenge for most credit unions is these environments aren't so much created, they just happen. Whether you are running a small, mid-size, or multi-billion dollar credit union, the key is designing the environments and empowering your teams to excel within them. The other option is to allow the environments to default to whatever...
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When Money Isn't Real: The $10,000 Experiment

What happens when you take away the colored paper slips in the Monopoly box and replace them with cold, hard American currency? In just such an experiment, Adam Carroll played a high-stakes $10,000 game of Monopoly with his kids and learned a valuable insight. The lessons from which, he now uses to teach credit unions how to have a real dialogue with their members resulting in greater wallet share, better borrowers, and deeper member relationships. You'll walk away with a new found...
FinanceEntertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny