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Key Points for Andrew Grant

  • Andrew Grant cuts through corporate gimmicks with intelligence, humour, and depth, no sticky notes, no tired games, just meaningful outcomes.
  • From AWS to Disney to UBS, Andrew is trusted by global heavyweights to embed lasting innovation and transform culture.
  • Backed by 30 years of cross-cultural exploration and academic rigour with Dr Gaia Grant, Andrew’s work is both credible and deeply practical.
  • Andrew’s interactive simulations and diagnostic tools like iCLi help leaders assess and action their innovation potential, without dumbing anything down.

Topics for Andrew Grant

  • Innovate; Future-proofing innovation leadership in the digital age
    Embracing the AI paradox: Balancing speed, strategy & sustainable innovation to win the innovation race.
    AI is transforming creativity and innovation, but how do leaders harness its potential without losing the human spark? This session cuts through the noise, tackling the paradox of AI-driven transformation with practical strategies for integrating AI into decision-making, problem-solving, innovation and leadership. Learn how to balance creative ingenuity with AI-powered efficiency while maintaining strategic control. This topic provides a powerful introduction and/or subplot to ensure AI works for—not against—innovation, empowering organisations to thrive in an era of disruption. Learn to lead in an era where creativity, complexity, and AI must coexist. The rapid rise of AI is reshaping leadership, adding an unpredictable X factor to an already complex landscape. As businesses race to innovate, leaders must juggle competing demands—balancing urgency and caution to drive sustainable, strategic growth. This new wave of growth is reshaping leadership, forcing executives to balance tradition with transformation, speed with strategy, and innovation with stability. This keynote explores the paradox of AI adoption—how leaders can harness its potential without losing control, disrupting teams, derailing innovation, and fracturing organizations. Through groundbreaking insights from The Innovation Race, this keynote/workshop introduces powerful tools like the Innovation Climate Leadership Indicator (iCLi) and Dynamic Polar Positioning (DPoP) to help leaders navigate digital transformation. This interactive session equips executives & leaders with practical strategies to foster agility, resilience, and sustainable innovation—ensuring they don’t just keep up with AI but lead through the disruption. Key takeaways:
    • Understand the impact of AI on leadership, innovation, transformation and change
    • Effectivity master & lead through the tension between speed and strategy in AI-driven change
    • Gain insights into leadership styles and how to manage competing demands
    • Learn practical ways to navigate digital transformation with confidence
      Based on their best-selling book "The Innovation Race", Dr Gaia Grant &/OR Andrew Grant will not just help you keep up with AI, but lead through the tension. A hybrid keynote / workshop allows for the participants and all stakeholders to walk away with actionable data from the collective intelligence of the group’s contributions to real live workplace challenges and solutions. (rec up to 2 hours.) Covers: Team alignment. Leading ambidextrous, agile & aligned teams. How to manage innovation orientations in teams. Includes individual and team profiling. Discuss how top management teams experience paradoxical demands in strategizing & how to navigate change. Includes individual & team assessments/graphs (iCLi), Leading Ambidextrous, Agile & Aligned Teams, Plus the option to integrate case studies illustrating how competing demands were or can be effectively addressed within your organisation.
  • Remaining competitive in the innovation race
    Who will win and who will lose as we face the future digital divide?
    Many of us are astounded by the speed of innovation, but only a few truly know how to engage with it. While we all eagerly anticipate insights from industry leaders, hoping to discern the latest innovation trends and maintain an edge, it can be hard to get practical guidance on how to stay ahead in the innovation race. What has made the current landscape especially challenging is that while organization growth has typically followed a relatively linear path with gradual developments, the pace of technological progress through AI is forcing us to adapt to seismic exponential shifts. This fast-paced ‘futurist keynote’ is a global journey that uncovers how various cultures, companies, and even countries have successfully managed rapid change AND innovation. Drawing from case studies in their book ‘The Innovation Race’, it provides tangible strategies to stay ahead by seizing opportunities rather than succumbing to potentially disruptive and threatening challenges. It explores how, although companies like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI may appear to be leading in the ‘innovation race’, they might not have all the answers – and how most companies today have only half the story right when it comes to innovation and growth. The session explores the critical underlying factors that are under-recognised, but that will ultimately shape the future of innovation: leadership styles, team culture and organisation’s readiness. It provides tools to show how leaders can successfully navigate core paradoxical innovation tensions to become more resilient, agile and adaptive. The unique research presented in the session offers a realistic perspective on what it will take to remain in the innovation race over the long term. Key takeaways & talking points:
    • To remain competitive in the innovation race
    • Exploring the global landscape to master exponential change
    • Navigating innovation paradoxes from global best practices
    • Applying global insights & tools
  • The AI creative intelligence challenge
    Staying Human and Creative in an Age of Intelligent Technology
    In today’s high-tech world, leaders face a paradox: harness the efficiency of AI or safeguard the unpredictable brilliance of human creativity. But what if the real power lies in blending both? In this thought-provoking keynote or dynamic hybrid workshop, Andrew Grant &/or Dr. Gaia Grant dive into the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and Creative Intelligence (CQ)—revealing how forward-thinking leaders can elevate innovation, solve wicked problems, and maintain the essential human spark. Drawing on their best-selling book Who Killed Creativity and How Can We Get It Back?, this session challenges outdated paradigms and provides actionable strategies to thrive in a world where creativity is both critically needed and increasingly at risk. Key outcomes:
    • Maximise creativity without losing control
    • Learn when and how to integrate AI to boost innovation without compromising human ingenuity or strategic alignment.
    • Map and Apply CQ for Competitive Advantage. Discover the 7 CQ skills essential for creative, critical and design thinking—and see how they can drive measurable business outcomes and combat creative decline.
    • Lead Innovation in the AI Era. Explore how AI can be a creative collaborator when tackling complex challenges and wicked problems through design thinking.
    • Assess and Activate Collective Intelligence (Hybrid Workshop Add-On). Participants collaborate to solve real workplace challenges using Padlet-based data collection, gap analysis, and goal mapping—capturing actionable insights to implement long after the session.
    • Align CQ Skills with KPIs and Organisational Goals. Learn to connect creativity with performance metrics, bridging the gap between inspired thinking and tangible results.
      Extension hybrid workshop options: Implications and applications. A hybrid keynote / workshop allows for the participants and all stakeholders to walk away with actionable data from the collective intelligence of the group’s contributions to real live workplace challenges and solutions. This can include gathering and supplying data collection using an online Padlet board to use and keep during and post the session. This comes complete with audience solutions, follow-up action planning, goal setting and gap analysis. (rec up to 2 hours.) 
    • Map the 7 CQ skills needed to implement creative thinking, critical thinking & design thinking strategies
    • Connect KPIs to CQ skills, and harness CQ skills as a competitive business advantage
    • Conduct a gap analysis to assess current and needed CQ skills in a work context
    • Learn how CQ skills can counteract creative blockers
    • Use the CQ skills to introduce each step of a Design Thinking process and solve a real workplace challenge
  • The collaboration concept
    Leading collaborative innovation in a corporate competitive culture
    Collaboration is a term often used by leaders and found in mission statements, yet implementation can be a deceptive challenge. This unique session delves deep into the concept of collaboration, exploring the critical question: “Under what conditions will people really cooperate?” This seemingly simple question holds significant implications for anyone seeking to foster a collaborative environment, from corporate managers to governments & even countries in conflict. Through honest and detailed investigation of this topic, the program strives to comprehend how to effectively incentivize cooperation (especially in the context of a competitive corporate business environment). During the session the participants engage in a social experiment (gamified simulation) to explore the behavioral economics of individuals, teams and whole business units. In a safe, reversible environment, they will experience firsthand the consequences when trust and accountability are removed from the equation and quickly discover the power of real collaboration to achieve outstanding results. Key takeaways & talking points:
    • Understand the forces at work with the dilemma of collaborating in a competitive environment
    • Determine what non-collaborative behaviours (e.g., defecting/freeriding) occur in business contexts and what impact they have
    • Identify how to change behaviour related to “we versus they” “siloed” thinking
    • Address the concerns and interests of others with opposing viewpoints
    • Outline actions needed to reduce non-collaborative behaviours in the workplace
    • Explore collaborative behaviours and expectations in their workplace

Testimonials for Andrew Grant

Exceeded expectations…, and it was actionable.
Director of Food SBU Switzerland
NESTLE

Totally impressed, a great event. It was both logical and fun, with real take-aways 
Managing Director Czech Republic
3M 

This was the best program I’ve ever seen.
Regional CEO
DAIMLER (DFS) 

You gave us compelling ideas that are worthwhile for use in our marketing.
GM & Senior VP Consumer Products Asia Pacific
DISNEY

A well-received session with value adds for attendees”. (Keynote to a 600 strong plenary session, and a workshop for the top 60 high achievers, which also included the CEO of AMP, and executive management team) 4.39/5
Professional Development Conference Manager
Australia | AMP (CHARTER)

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. (4.6/5)
Asia Pacific Manager Premier Partners Global Network
FUJI XEROX

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 perspective. it made us really stop and think about how we were going about addressing our client's challenges. (USA national conference)
Partner Director
US Advisory Forensic Services PWC

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.
VP Neurosciences Global Medical Affairs
JANSSEN (JOHNSON & JOHNSON)

One of the highest ranked seminars of the year for YPO (Young Presidents Organization) scoring an amazing 9.6/10
Board Member
YPO