Andrew Grill
Most executive teams can describe what generative AI is. Far fewer can tell you which specific decisions inside their business should change because of it. The gap between surface-level fluency and operational judgement is where transformation stalls, budgets drift, and boards lose patience.
Andrew Grill is a former IBM Global Managing Partner and author of the Wiley bestseller “Digitally Curious” who helps boards and executive teams turn AI hype into specific, sequenced decisions about their own business.
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Why organisations work with Andrew Grill
- He gives leadership teams a working vocabulary for AI, quantum, blockchain, and adjacent technologies, built on the 200+ concepts codified in “Digitally Curious” and tested on boards at Vodafone, Dell, Nestle, and the NHS.
- His engineering training and former IBM Global Managing Partner role mean technical claims hold up under scrutiny from a CTO, while the framing stays legible to a CFO or CHRO.
- Each session ends with the “Curious Five”, a concrete set of follow-up actions, so the room leaves with decisions to make rather than slides to forward.
- He has delivered five TEDx talks and advises at board level, so the same material scales from a 1,500-person keynote to a closed strategy session.
Biography highlights
- Former Global Managing Partner, IBM Social Consulting
- Author, “Digitally Curious” (Wiley, 2024), international bestseller
- Host, the Digitally Curious Podcast, running since 2019
- Named to the AI 100 UK List 2025 for responsible AI leadership
- Five TEDx talks delivered in London and Cardiff
- Non-Executive Director, Britain Australia Society
- Bachelor of Electronic Engineering plus two Master’s degrees (Engineering, MBA)
Biography
Every board now has AI on its agenda. Far fewer have a clear view of which decisions inside the business actually change because of it. Andrew Grill built his career in the gap between those two positions, first as a telecoms engineer at Optus and Telstra in Australia, then as Global Managing Partner in IBM’s Social Consulting practice, working with some of the largest enterprises in the world on how technology reshapes the way they operate.
“Digitally Curious”, published by Wiley in 2024, is the distilled version of that experience. It walks executives through more than 200 technology concepts, from generative AI and quantum to blockchain and 5G, and ends every chapter with the Curious Five, a short set of concrete actions. The book reached international bestseller status and has become the spine of his keynote and advisory work.
The podcast of the same name, running since 2019 with more than 60 interviews, gives him a working library of case material. That shows up in the room. Boards at Vodafone, Dell, Nestle, DHL, Sanofi, Bupa, and the NHS have brought him in for sessions that move from technology explanation to specific organisational choices, usually in the same hour.
He has delivered five TEDx talks across London and Cardiff, appears regularly on BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, and in The Economist and Financial Times, and was named to the AI 100 UK List in 2025 for his work on responsible AI. The throughline is consistent: make the technology legible to the people who actually have to decide what to do about it.
Key speaking topics
- Artificial intelligence and generative AI for business
- Digital transformation at board level
- Responsible AI and AI governance
- The future of work
- Emerging technology: quantum, blockchain, Web3
- Customer experience in an AI-mediated economy
- Digital fluency for senior leaders
Ideal for
- Boards and executive committees sequencing their AI strategy
- CIOs, CDOs, and transformation leads building internal buy-in for technology roadmaps
- CHROs and people leaders reshaping roles around AI-augmented work
- Industry conferences addressing senior commercial and technology audiences
Audience outcomes
- A shared vocabulary across the executive team for AI, generative AI, and adjacent technologies
- A concrete short list of next actions, drawn from the Curious Five framework, tailored to the brief
- Sharper judgement on which vendor claims and use cases deserve investment and which do not
- A clearer view of where AI changes roles, processes, and customer experience inside their own organisation
Talks
A working briefing on ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the wider generative AI landscape, aimed at executives who need to make investment and policy decisions now.
Key takeaways:
- How to separate genuine enterprise use cases from vendor theatre
- Where generative AI is already changing customer experience, knowledge work, and marketing
- The governance questions a board should be asking this quarter
A session on how incumbents in regulated and asset-heavy industries can read disruption signals early enough to act on them.
Key takeaways:
- A pattern library for spotting disruption before it shows up in the P&L
- How to commission small, fast experiments without destabilising the core business
- The internal conditions that decide whether digital bets scale or stall
The keynote built directly around the Wiley book, designed to lift the digital fluency of a full leadership team in a single session.
Key takeaways:
- A common language for the technologies shaping the next five years
- The Curious Five: a repeatable habit for staying current without chasing every headline
- How to set a personal and team learning cadence that sticks
A view of how AI, automation, and distributed work are reshaping roles, office design, and the employee contract.
Key takeaways:
- Which tasks AI genuinely augments, and which it is more likely to replace
- How to redesign team structures around human plus machine collaboration
- What to measure when productivity is no longer tied to hours or location
Videos
Testimonials
Fees
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| Home Country | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Asia Pacific | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Europe | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Middle East & Africa | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| South America | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| United Kingdom | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US East Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US West Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Virtual | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |