Innovation Leadership & Culture Transformation Specialist; Director at Tirian; Author of "The Innovation Race" and "Who Killed Creativity?"
Andrew Grant Biography
Andrew Grant is an innovation for transformation specialist and the director of Tirian. He is also the author of "The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the Game" and the international bestseller "Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back?" Known for his engaging and educational presentation style, Grant specializes in keynote speaking on topics such as Creative Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, and Corporate Culture. He has been recognized globally for his work as a creative thinking expert and innovation keynote speaker.
Over his career, Grant has collaborated with world leaders in innovation to foster cultural change. His work has been prominently featured in international media outlets such as BBC, ABC TV, Reuters, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal. His educational programs and resources are utilized by Fortune 500 companies across the globe, attesting to their effectiveness and reach.
Together with his partner, Dr. Gaia Grant (PhD) from the University of Sydney Business School, Grant has spent over 30 years analyzing innovation-driven cultures around the world. Their research has led to the creation of innovative tools like a CSI-style board game to help teams assess their creativity and a validated Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi) to gauge the innovation readiness of organizations. These tools are designed to manage the tensions that arise in executive teams during change initiatives, ensuring sustainable implementation of innovation.
He has delivered keynote speeches at prestigious forums such as the APEC CEO Summit in Danang and TEDx in Hong Kong. His sessions are highly interactive, often incorporating elements like game-theory simulations and magic tricks to metaphorically examine trust dynamics and creative thinking processes. This approach has consistently earned him the highest feedback scores at various international conferences, showcasing his ability to resonate with and captivate diverse audiences.
In addition to his corporate engagements, the Grants have initiated significant pro bono education projects across Asia, creating educational resources aimed at reaching over 25 million people in developing countries. This work underscores their commitment to using innovation for social impact and educational advancement globally.
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Andrew Grant Speaking Topics
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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
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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
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Andrew Grant is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Author, Business, Business Leadership, Change Management, Corporate Culture, Creativity, Customer Experience, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Motivational, Personal Growth, Psychology, Social Sciences, Teamwork & Teambuilding -
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