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Gaia Grant

Researcher, Global Innovation Leadership Consultant, Creative Thinker & Author

Researcher, Global Innovation Leadership Consultant, Creative Thinker & Author

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Gaia Grant Biography

Gaia Grant (PhD) is the creator of the unique Innovative Change Leader Profile (iCLi) and Polar Positioning (PoP) tool. She is a researcher and lecturer on innovation with the University of Sydney Business School, a director of Tirian Consulting, and author of a number of books – including "The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game" and international bestseller "Who Killed Creativity?… And How Can We Get it Back?" along with "A Patch of Paradise" and "The Rhythm of Life" and over 30 other educational resources.

Grant researches how to create a culture that supports sustainable innovation and draws on data she’s collected from multiple survey responses and interviews with global leaders. She is a course designer & lecturer at the Work Integrated Learning Hub / Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship / University of Sydney Business School. Her role includes evaluating and designing work-based learning and teaching for the future of work. Grant also has an MSc in Creative Leadership (State University of New York), along with a Grad Dip Change Leadership, BD (hons), and BA Dip Ed.

Grant was appointed by The Australian Institute of Company Directors and the peak Australian Superannuation Association Fund to research and report back on the importance of creating cultures in an organization that promotes accountability and integrity following the outcomes of the Haynes Royal Commission. She is recognized as an outstanding educator, receiving multiple university awards for her work.

Grant’s corporate clients have included: Google (US), JP Morgan (Asia Pacific), Visa (US), Salesforce (Asia Pacific), Boeing (& Partner airlines), Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (Canada), Citibank (Asia Pacific), AMP Bank (Australia), Baker & McKenzie (Asia Pacific), Colgate Palmolive (Innovation Lab America), Deutsche Bank (Asia Pacific) & many other MNCs who can all attest to her insightful approach.

Keynote presentations Grant has given at a number of high-profile events for up to 3,000 people at a time have included: Salesforce International Roadshow | Gartner Symposium CIO Itxpo | World President Organization Global conference | Optus / Singtel national event |Growth Faculty Conference. Other selected industry keynote and workshop presentations have included CI Creative Innovation Conference (Australia) and the Creative Problem-Solving Institute (State University of New York, US). Grant has also presented her research papers at a number of universities internationally including across the US (such as Xavier and Miami), Asia Pacific (including Bhutan, Central Philippines University), as well as delivering at major US & European management theory conferences: Academy of Management, EGOS & PROS.

Grant contributes regularly to a number of major magazines and newspapers, and she has also been featured in a number of international media including BBC and ABC TV along with commercial TV, Reuters, Harvard Business Review, HRM, Fast Company and the Wall St Journal. She has co-authored several academic papers on innovation and over 30 corporate educational resources, simulations and programs, which are used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Grant’s recent white paper on “What it means to be an ambidextrous innovation leader: Developing greater agility for sustainability in a rapidly changing world” is being very well received by innovation leaders globally.

Grant is a recognized thought leader and a highly skilled presenter, facilitator and consultant who has developed a wide range of strategies and tools that can be used to find solutions to the most difficult challenges. Along with her corporate client work, Grant has also researched, designed and delivered long-term innovation culture solutions for a number of not-for-profit organisations, including directing a one-year project working on innovation solutions for a government project that supports impoverished farmers with improving agriculture techniques in Indonesia, coordinating strategies for refugee organisations to overcome challenges internationally, and producing a health curriculum for more than 25 million teachers and students in India.

Grant and her partner Andrew Grant have travelled the world for over 20 years looking at innovation and creativity in companies, countries and cultures.

Gaia Grant Speaking Topics

  • 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?+ Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ) skills for a competitive business advantage:

    Identifying the key psychological blocks to creative thinking and how to deal with them.

    We need to be creative to be innovative. But the relentless push to innovate faster may be undermining the whole creative process. In our rush for end results, we could ironically be killing the very thing that will lead us to innovation: creativity. Recent research has revealed that creative thinking will be the most important leadership attribute in the next 10 years. Yet it has been identified that even though IQ has been on the rise, creative thinking (CQ) has been rapidly declining since the 1990s. CQ has also been found to drop over an individual’s lifespan. We are now at a point where all the design thinking strategies and innovation labs in the world won’t help a team if there are significant psychological or environmental and cultural blocks to the creative probes. This session takes the participants on a journey from the classroom to the boardroom to understand the impact of the current creativity crisis. The session covers the implications for the workplace and reveals how it is possible to develop a creative and innovative culture.

  • Are you an Ambidextrous Innovation Leader?

    What the latest research reveals about how to lead for sustainable innovation

    “What it means to be an ambidextrous innovation leader: Developing greater agility for sustainability in a rapidly changing world” How is it possible to deal with the challenges of constant change in order to innovate and thrive? This session includes a fascinating validated assessment and interactive exercises to help explore individual unique Innovation Change Leadership (iCLi) profiles. Gaia Grant’s latest research reveals how understanding ‘Paradoxical Innovation Orientations’ (PIOs) and applying the ‘Polar Positioning Tool’ (PoP) at the individual, team and organisation levels can assist with fuelling innovation. In this session participants learn how to manage the dynamic tension between the principles of exploration, for breakthrough new innovation ideas, and preservation, for incremental continuous improvement. They learn how to lead teams so they are propelled forward by the creative dynamic between these positions rather than ripped apart by the tension, and through this process come to appreciate the importance of becoming ambidextrous innovation leaders. Drawing from her research with thousands of survey responses, multiple interviews with heads of innovation and a deep dive case study immersions – along with fascinating case studies from her consulting work with organisations over 30 years – this session reveals how leaders can fuel sustainable development. (Academic version with White Paper also available)

  • The Innovation Paradox: Are you an innovative leader?

    We need to be creative to be innovative. But the relentless push to innovate faster is producing a toxic culture that may undermine the whole creative process. In our rush for end results fast, we could ironically be killing the very thing that will lead us to innovation: creativity. Creativity and innovation are not interchangeable words, and it’s important for effective businesses to understand why. In these sessions we explore why we need both, and the paradoxes behind this that can impact our work.

Gaia Grant Videos

  • Dr Gaia Grant (PhD) - Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, Author, Designer

Gaia Grant Books

  • The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the Game
    The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the Game
  • Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back?
    Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back?

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Gaia Grant is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Other topic headings can include…, Who Killed Creativity?... And how can we get it back?+ Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ) skills for a competitive business advantage: , Are you an Ambidextrous Innovation Leader? and The Innovation Paradox: Are you an innovative leader?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Gaia Grant for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Gaia Grant generally travels from SydneyAustralia and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Andrew Grant, Neal Petersen, Daymond John, Afdhel Aziz and Sheldon Yellen. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Gaia Grant for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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