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Andrew Grant

Executive Director Tirian: Author, Facilitator, Speaker

Andrew is a highly experienced keynote speaker, presenter and facilitator.

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"Both the book and the 'roadshow' are captivating."

Nick Walker, 
Columnist, 
South China Morning Post

"Totally impressed, a great event. It was both logical & fun, with real take away."

Managing Director, 
Czech Republic, 3M (YPO)

"A phenomenal session! The feedback was excellent and many of our members gave this session a 10 out of 10. Really unique in bringing real depth and understanding to innovation. I saw a lot of lights go on today with our CEOs, and this will help our CEOs to be more effective in innovating. Excellent job, It was much appreciated!"

Robert E. Fiske, 
President & CEO, USA, 
Chief Executives Guild

"Top marks for helping us ensure that the whole issue of creating a supporting culture that enables our key strategic initiatives, becomes successful."

John Gilbert, 
Global Operations, 
London UK, UBS Investment Bank

"Exceeded expectations, your program made our team more comfortable working with these issues, gave the topic more credibility and it was actionable."

Director of Food SBU, 
Switzerland, Nestle

"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."

Erik Skramstad, 
Partner, Director, 
US Advisory Forensic Services, PwC

"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 our10-year history. (4.6/5)"

Asia Pacific Manager, 
Premier Partners Global Network, Fuji Xerox

"This was the best program I've ever seen."

Regional CEO, 
Daimler (DFS)

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Andrew Grant's 2023 biography

About Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant is an innovation for transformation specialist. He is the founder and director of Tirian and author of, The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game along with the international bestseller Who Killed Creativity?… And How Can We Get it Back? He is a highly experienced, humorous, and engaging presenter, who facilitates leaders & teams to enhance collaboration and innovation, using creative solutions.

Andrew Grant has worked with world leaders in innovation to drive cultural change. An accomplished author, he has featured in global media and his educational programs and resources are used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Andrew Grant and his partner Dr Gaia Grant (PhD) (University of Sydney Business School) have spent 30 years travelling the world to look at creativogenic cultures, and why is it that some societies & companies seem to have raced ahead with innovation, while others appear to have been left behind. As a result, they have developed a CSI style board game to help teams diagnose their creativity, AND validated Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi) to assess the innovation readiness so as to manage tension in executive teams embracing change, to ensure innovation can be sustainably implemented.

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. He is both globally minded and culturally fluent, resulting in sessions that are always relevant and sensitive to both the local mindset and diverse audiences.

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.

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:

  • Google: C-level & country managers for strategic team development (Asia).
  • Nestle (sustainable solutions for emerging markets in Switzerland)
  • Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (preparing the C-level 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 (to help Dubai and the region develop future leaders in innovation) (DukeCE)
  • Boeing – Leading and Recovering from Crisis (during Covid)
  • Financial institutions (ANZ, AMP, Alipay, Allianz, Barclays, Citibank, Credit-Suisse, Daimler Financial Services, DeutscheBank, GoldmanSachs, NAB, S&P Global, Standard Chartered, UBS (assisting leaders with the tension change brings when dealing with changes to regulations).
  • Duke University Corporate Education – Educator and facilitator
  • YPO – top-ranked global facilitator recognized resource

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)
  • Four Seasons Hotel International CEO Conference (Canada)
  • The World Innovation Conference (France),
  • TEDx (HK).
  • HR Summit & HR Smart Workforce (Singapore)
  • APEC CEO Summit & APEC University Leaders’ Forum (Vietnam)
  • Innoday (Stockholm)

As a dynamic husband-and-wife team, Andrew can team up with his partner and co-author, Dr Gaia Grant, (PhD) Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship |Sydney University Business School. 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.

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Andrew Grant's 2023 talks & topics

How to lead a culture of innovation

Negotiating 4 key innovation culture paradox pairings with polar positioning.

  1. Liberate: How to unlock a culture of innovation through freedom and guidance Takeaways: Action statements and strategies for building a foundation for innovation culture
  2. Initiate: How to initiate the innovation process through diversity and focus Takeaways: Cultural principles and practices for exploring the generation of the best possible ideas
  3. Motivate: How to inspire and engage individuals and teams towards unified solutions Takeaways: Leadership behaviour plans to support innovative engagement
  4. Transform: How to transform a culture for implementing innovation through flexibility and stability Takeaways: Setting up systems and structures that will support sustainable ongoing innovation implementation

The magic of creative thinking and how to really think outside the box.

Uses magic illusions as an illustration for how the creative thinking process can be blocked psychologically, segueing to challenging people about their mindset and mental models.

The Traveller and the Tourist. Why innovation doesn't always work. Who wins, who loses and who gets eliminated?

Companies like Google may appear to be leading in the ‘innovation race’, but do they have all the solutions? Our research has revealed that most companies today only have half the story right and that a new perspective is needed to overcome the challenges. This presentation identifies core sustainable innovation strategies for surviving and thriving in ‘theinnovation race’. It reveals that by simply changing perspective, new ideas can be better supported through to implementation.

What is Your Innovator Profile? Are you Innovation Ready?

How to identify and develop your individual, your team’s and your organization’s innovation strengths for maximizing innovation at all levels. Includes a fascinating validated assessment and interactive ‘speed dating’ and ‘in or out’ exercises to help people explore their unique perspectives and potential.

The Creativity Process – The 7 Creative Thinking Strategies for Designing New Innovations (Introducing Design Thinking)

How to rescue creative thinking and problem solving -7 enabling ‘critical’, ‘creative’ and ‘design’-thinking strategies for creative thinking success. Uses real workplace case studies and focuses on developing practical solutions.

Takeaways: Practical tools for coming up with workable ideas and implementable solutions faster PLUS one or more business issues solved using the tools.

Who Killed Creativity?… And how can we get it back?

Why ‘design thinking’ doesn’t always work. Profiling the potential creative thinking killers, and identifying how to counteract these through building creative thinking skills and an innovative culture.

The Monk and the Mobile – The Paradox Theory of Innovation

This session how to lead and manage innovation through successfully navigating the 4 key innovation paradoxes. Practical strategies and the ‘polar positioning’ tool are introduced to show how to navigate these paradoxical tensions successfully. The fast-paced global adventure reveals how different cultures and companies around the world have effectively managed the key Exploration / Preservation innovation paradox, along with the 4 contributing sub-paradoxes.

Create: Creative Thinking Fundamentals

Innovate: Ambidextrous Future Ready Leadership

Andrew Grant's 2023 speaking fees

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  • Australia

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