Andrew Grant is recognised as a global creative thinking pioneer and highly engaging keynote speaker. As the author of several books and over 30 original and sophisticated organizational development programs on the market today, Andrew brings a unique contemporary perspective to the field of innovative thinking and creative problem solving. He is best known as the co-author of the books The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the Game, along with international bestseller Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back?
Andrew Grant and his partner Gaia Grant (University of Sydney Business School researcher) have spent 30 years travelling the world to look at why is it that some societies, cultures and organisations seem to have raced ahead while others appear to have been left behind. They have also developed a validated Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi) to assess the innovation readiness of both individuals and organizations, to ensure innovation can actually be implemented.
Andrew is a highly experienced and humorous presenter and facilitator, who will challenge leaders and their teams to thinking differently about innovation and creative thinking.
Andrew has a wealth of knowledge and experience working internationally, and is both globally minded and culturally fluent, resulting in sessions that are always relevant and sensitive to both the local mindset and diverse audiences. He has co-authored over 30 corporate educational resources, simulations and programs in total, which are used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Companies such as Visa use Tirian programs as an induction program for every new manager worldwide.
Andrew can present to an audience that is wanting outcomes delivered engagingly in an intelligent and interactive way (not just entertainment, not a dry talk, and not childish games or gimmicks). Topics are presented in a unique way previously not experienced, with a specialisation on fully engaging interactive sessions on creative thinking and innovation. Andrew practices what he preaches, and offers not only an intelligent session on the topic but one that is presented creativity.
Andrew consistently receives the highest rated feedback for his sessions due to his creative and educationally sound presentations methods. Andrew's significant success comes from the fact that he is not only able to talk intelligently and engagingly about the important elements of creative thinking and innovation, but it is easy to see in everything he does. As a result Andrew has been featured in a number of international media including BBC and ABC TV along with commercial TV, Reuters, Harvard Business review, Fast Company and the Wall St Journal.
More About Andrew Grant…
As an executive level global culture consultant and facilitator, Andrew has been engaged by market innovation leaders to help create a culture of innovation including:
- Nestle (sustainable innovation solutions for emerging markets in Switzerland)
- Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (preparing the exec team & GMs for the future of the hospitality industry, Canada)
- Disney (creating compelling ideas for marketing, HK),
- Mercedes Benz (innovative brand positioning, China)
- Estee Lauder (reimagining regional retail models),
- Salesforce (looking at the future of marketing and the customer journey)
- UAE Prime Minister's office / Duke University & (to help Dubai and the region develop future leaders in innovation)
… Along with a number of large finance institutions (UBS, DB, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Credit Suisse, AMP, BNP Paribas – assisting with dealing with changes to regulations).
In his role as a keynote speaker, Andrew has been in high demand internationally: including delivering keynotes at:
- Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO) Global Edge & GLC ROW Conference (Aust) (Europe)
- APEC CEO Summit & APEC University Leaders' Forum (Vietnam)
- Four Seasons Hotel International CEO Conference (Canada)
- The World Innovation Conference (France),
- Salesforce Road Show
- TEDx (HK).
- HR Summit & HR Smart Workforce (Singapore)
- Innoday Competing for the future (Stockholm)
Andrew has also delivered a series of headline keynotes at extended international roadshows for Fuji Xerox, PwC, J&J, PMI, and Citibank.
As a dynamic husband-and-wife team, Andrew can team up with his partner and co-author, Gaia Grant. Gaia is researching innovation culture and sustainability at the University of Sydney Business School, where she is also a lecturer. (Gaia Grant PhD / MSc Creative Change Leadership / Grad Dip Change Leadership / BD / BA Dip Ed)
Outside of their corporate work, Andrew and Gaia have also worked on breakthrough pro bono education projects across Asia, including designing educational material that has been targeted to reach over 25 million people in developing countries worldwide.
Andrew Grant is recognised as a global creative thinking pioneer and highly engaging keynote speaker. As the author of several books and over 30 original and sophisticated organizational development programs on the market today, Andrew brings a unique contemporary perspective to the field of innovative thinking and creative problem solving. He is best known as the co-author of the books The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the Game, along with international bestseller Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back?
Andrew Grant and his partner Gaia Grant (University of Sydney Business School researcher) have spent 30 years travelling the world to look at why is it that some societies, cultures and organisations seem to have raced ahead while others appear to have been left behind. They have also developed a validated Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi) to assess the innovation readiness of both individuals and organizations, to ensure innovation can actually be implemented.
Andrew is a highly experienced and humorous presenter and facilitator, who will challenge leaders and their teams to thinking differently about innovation and creative thinking.
Andrew has a wealth of knowledge and experience working internationally, and is both globally minded and culturally fluent, resulting in sessions that are always relevant and sensitive to both the local mindset and diverse audiences. He has co-authored over 30 corporate educational resources, simulations and programs in total, which are used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Companies such as Visa use Tirian programs as an induction program for every new manager worldwide.
Andrew can present to an audience that is wanting outcomes delivered engagingly in an intelligent and interactive way (not just entertainment, not a dry talk, and not childish games or gimmicks). Topics are presented in a unique way previously not experienced, with a specialisation on fully engaging interactive sessions on creative thinking and innovation. Andrew practices what he preaches, and offers not only an intelligent session on the topic but one that is presented creativity.
Andrew consistently receives the highest rated feedback for his sessions due to his creative and educationally sound presentations methods. Andrew's significant success comes from the fact that he is not only able to talk intelligently and engagingly about the important elements of creative thinking and innovation, but it is easy to see in everything he does. As a result Andrew has been featured in a number of international media including BBC and ABC TV along with commercial TV, Reuters, Harvard Business review, Fast Company and the Wall St Journal.
More About Andrew Grant…
As an executive level global culture consultant and facilitator, Andrew has been engaged by market innovation leaders to help create a culture of innovation including:
- Nestle (sustainable innovation solutions for emerging markets in Switzerland)
- Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (preparing the exec team & GMs for the future of the hospitality industry, Canada)
- Disney (creating compelling ideas for marketing, HK),
- Mercedes Benz (innovative brand positioning, China)
- Estee Lauder (reimagining regional retail models),
- Salesforce (looking at the future of marketing and the customer journey)
- UAE Prime Minister's office / Duke University & (to help Dubai and the region develop future leaders in innovation)
… Along with a number of large finance institutions (UBS, DB, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Credit Suisse, AMP, BNP Paribas – assisting with dealing with changes to regulations).
In his role as a keynote speaker, Andrew has been in high demand internationally: including delivering keynotes at:
- Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO) Global Edge & GLC ROW Conference (Aust) (Europe)
- APEC CEO Summit & APEC University Leaders' Forum (Vietnam)
- Four Seasons Hotel International CEO Conference (Canada)
- The World Innovation Conference (France),
- Salesforce Road Show
- TEDx (HK).
- HR Summit & HR Smart Workforce (Singapore)
- Innoday Competing for the future (Stockholm)
Andrew has also delivered a series of headline keynotes at extended international roadshows for Fuji Xerox, PwC, J&J, PMI, and Citibank.
As a dynamic husband-and-wife team, Andrew can team up with his partner and co-author, Gaia Grant. Gaia is researching innovation culture and sustainability at the University of Sydney Business School, where she is also a lecturer. (Gaia Grant PhD / MSc Creative Change Leadership / Grad Dip Change Leadership / BD / BA Dip Ed)
Outside of their corporate work, Andrew and Gaia have also worked on breakthrough pro bono education projects across Asia, including designing educational material that has been targeted to reach over 25 million people in developing countries worldwide.
The Innovation Paradox: How to CREATE+INNOVATE
The Innovation Race: Who wins, who loses and who gets eliminated? Why innovation doesn't always work
The Paradox of Leading Sustainable Innovation: The Monk and the Mobile
The Collaboration Deception: Leading Collaborative Innovation
This is a unique keynote that includes a powerful game-theory style interactive session. In this session the participants become involved in a social experiment and discover firsthand what happens when trust is removed from the equation. Leaders and teams can benefit from this program through learning how to build long lasting trust with fellow team members, vendors, partners and associates. They will understand what to look for in a healthy teams and business relationship, and how...
The Magic of Creative Thinking… And How To Really Think Outside The Box
A FAST PACED active session that is packed full of magic tricks, which quickly segues to challenging people about their mindset and mental models, peppered with some interesting information from neuroscience. Through a powerful metaphor, this session shows the strong connection between what magicians and creative thinking have in common: why people are so easily fooled by magic, and so readily blocked from solutions based creative thinking.
At the end of this keynote...
The Creativity Crisis: Is creative thinking dying just when companies need it the most? And What Can
We need to be creative to be innovative. We have heard of the importance of 'design thinking' as a tool to be more effective. But the relentless push to innovate faster is producing a toxic culture that may undermine the whole creative process. In our rush for end results fast, we could ironically be killing the very thing that will lead us to innovation: creativity. An IBM survey of over 1500 CEOs has revealed that creative thinking skills are the greatest attribute needed...
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US Advisory Forensic Services, PwC
On-Site
E.S., Partner / Director, US Advisory Forensic Services, PwC
You engaged our teams to really think through the value of creativity in business and about how to create a space that allows you to access that perspectives.
Salesforce.com
On-Site
D.L., Regional Head of Product Marketing, Salesforce.com
A masterful story teller who has compiled a rich set of tools for sustainable innovation methods.
YPO
On-Site
B.M., BOARD MEMBER, YPO
One of the highest ranked sessions of the year for YPO (Young Presidents Organization) scoring an amazing 9.6/10.
CARL ZEISS AG
On-Site
E.N., CHAIRMAN AND CEO, CARL ZEISS AG
You delivered important outcomes.
Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)
On-Site
F.W.M.P., VP Neurosciences Global Medical Affairs, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)
Andrew has the capacity to magically captivate your audience, regardless how jet-lagged they are, and transform the meeting place into an open and receptive arena that serves as a great springboard to talk about change towards more innovation
Premier Partners Global Network | FUJI XEROX
On-Site
M.B., Senior Manager, Premier Partners Global Network | FUJI XEROX
A truly magnificent achievement, particularity since the audience was from a multitude of cultures and listened in 5 different languages. This event scored the highest feedback in our 10 year history.
YPO
On-Site
R.H., Board Member, YPO
One of the highest ranked session of the year for YPO (Young Presidents Organization) scoring an amazing 9.6/10
