Andrew Grant Speaking Topics

• Co-Presentation: Andrew Grant and Gaia Grant

  Looking for keynote speakers & workshop facilitators who go beyond the script? Andrew Grant and Gaia Grant deliver high-impact, co-presented keynote talks that blend deep research with dynamic interaction, playful banter, and powerful facilitation. Their co-presenting style is fast-paced, engaging, and refreshingly unscripted — offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience real-time collaboration between two thought leaders. Andrew Grant & Dr Gaia Grant as co-presenters introduces a compelling and distinctive dynamic to any presentation. This powerful pairing unlocks a new realm of possibilities—diverse presentation formats, innovative methodologies, enriched content, and enhanced flexibility. Together, they bring a multidimensional approach that elevates audience engagement and delivers lasting impact.

• Leading Innovation on the Edge: Navigating the AI Adoption Divide

  The rapid rise of AI Artificial Intelligence 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 growth. This new wave of growth is reshaping leadership, forcing executives to balance tradition with transformation, speed with strategy, and agility with stability.

  This session cuts through the noise, tackling the core paradoxes of AI-driven transformation and providing practical strategies. Covering areas such as decision-making, problem-solving, innovation culture development and leadership tactics, participants learn how to balance creative ingenuity with AI-powered efficiency. The topic provides a powerful introduction and/or subplot to ensure AI works for—not against—innovation, empowering organizations to thrive in an era of disruption.

  The dynamic keynote also investigates the unique challenges of AI adoption: exploring how leaders can harness the potential without losing control. Through groundbreaking insights from Andrew and Gaia Grant’s book The Innovation Race and Gaia Grant’ unique research with the University of Sydney Business School, the keynote/workshop introduces powerful tools like the Innovation Climate Leadership Indicator (iCLi) and Dynamic Polar Positioning (DPoP) tool to demonstrate to leaders how to navigate digital transformation. A number of case studies are also introduced to demonstrate how the principles and tools introduced can be applied in practice.

  While many futurists indulge in revealing dazzling forecasts and speculative tech marvels, Andrew Grant and Dr. Gaia Grant offer a grounded, strategic approach. This keynote doesn’t seek to predict the future. Instead, it equips leaders to confidently manage uncertainty. The messages are not focused on future fantasy, the focus is on future readiness. As a result executives and leaders are equipped with practical strategies to foster agility, resilience, and sustainable innovation, ensuring they don’t just keep up with AI but lead through the disruption.

• The AI Creative Challenge: Do we still need creative thinking, now that AI can do it for us?

  Equipping Leadership Teams for AI-Driven Success:

  AI has reset the baseline for humans’ creativity. If your leadership team is relying on LLMs for strategy, you may be falling behind as ‘average’ is no longer good enough to compete with AI. However, the World Economic Forum continues to emphasize creative and critical thinking as essential leadership skills—even as AI transforms industries.

  In the age of intelligent technology, it will be important to learn to drive efficiency without sacrificing creativity or losing the human spark. As AI redefines problem-solving and innovation, it raises crucial questions about how human creativity can remain relevant. The challenge remains: Will AI kill creativity or enhance it? How can leaders strike the right balance between AI and human contribution when tackling wicked problems in projects requiring Creative Intelligence and Design Thinking?

  In this keynote and/or workshop session, participants are invited to explore the evolving relationship between AI and creative thinking, offering strategic insights on how leaders can leverage AI without losing control of ingenuity and innovation. The practical AI Creativity Utilization Dial is introduced as a tool for identifying how and when to incorporate AI in the creative thinking process.

  Andrew Grant &/or Dr. Gaia Grant won’t just help you use AI—they’ll show you how to harness it to supercharge creative thinking and tackle wicked problems with greater precision and efficiency.

• Other topic headings can include…

  INNOVATE:

  • The Innovation Race: Becoming Future Ready. Who will win, lose and be eliminated? What does successful & sustainable Innovation look like? Includes: best practices- Countries, Companies, Cultures & Innovation Leaders.
  • Ambidextrous Leadership: Identifying Paradoxical Innovation Orientations in Teams
  • Are you an Innovative Leader? Creating agile leadership teams: Identifying ambidexterity across different occupational profiles. Innovation profiling.

  CREATE:

  • Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ)

    • for a Competitive Advantage.

  • Who Killed Creativity? And How to Get it Back? From the Classroom to the Boardroom.
  • The 7 Critical Creative Thinking Strategies for Designing New Innovations, & why Design Thinking often fails.

  COLLABORATE

  • The Collaboration Deception: A gamified simulation social experiment, to explore building collaborative teams in a competitive environment

• Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get It Back?

  Identifying and investigating the key creativity killers, and introducing the seven strategies for ensuring individuals, teams and organisations become innovative.

  Focus Session 1: Investigating the crime. CSI (The Crime,The Scene, and The Investigation: Profiling the creative thinking killers, and counteracting these through building an innovation culture.

  Focus Session 2: 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.

  Focus Session 3: The forensic lab and the neuroscience of creative thinking. How to re-train the brain to access and harness unique creative thinking skills – including fascinating insights from the latest research in neuroscience

  In the CSI program series, the research is predominantly drawn from the fields of neuroscience and psychology to explain the potential blocks to creative thinking and innovation, and to explore what can be done about it. WKC is based on the theme of a Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) which looks at the blocks and enablers from an individual perspective. The participant plays the role of a detective solving a crime and looking for ways to revive creativity

• The Innovation Race

  Focus Session 1: Who wins, who loses, who gets eliminated? Tools for creating a competitive edge.

  Focus Session 2: Innovation Futures – why we need to change the game. Tools for sustainable, ethical and purpose driven innovation.

  Focus Session 3: Dealing with disruptive innovation. Strategies for identifying and implementing breakthrough concepts that can change the world.

  MORE: Why have some great countries, cultures and companies charged ahead at the forefront of innovation, while others have struggled to survive? Who are the most innovative cultures in the world and why? And what does this mean for organizations today and for the race to survive and thrive? Drawing on fascinating insights from different cultures around the world, this session (based on the breakthrough new book The Innovation Race) reveals principles we can use to create a culture that supports purpose-driven and sustainable innovation and ultimately changes the game. The session includes fascinating practical case studies from the authors’ vast consulting experience and from their in depth research. Fast-paced entertainment and humour are blended with deep social and anthropological facts, with profound implications for facing contemporary challenges. Participants discover the enduring cultural traits that foster true creative thinking and innovation through being introduced to the 4 key innovation paradoxes and learning how to navigate them successfully.

  The Innovation Race: A global adventure to discover which countries and cultures win, who loses and who gets eliminated. Explores how to navigate the 4 key innovation paradoxes to change a culture and change the game for purpose-driven innovation at all levels.

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