Andrew Grant
Author, Global Innovation Leadership Consultant
Profile
Andrew Grant is an innovation for transformation specialist. He is the director of Tirian and author of The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game along with 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.
Current Work:
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 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 cannot only 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 always relevant and sensitive sessions 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.
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.
As an executive level global culture consultant and facilitator, Andrew has been engaged by market innovation leaders to help create a culture of innovation:
– Google: C-level & country managers, for strategic team development (Asia).
– Nestle (sustainable solutions for emerging markets in Switzerland)
– Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (preparing the exec team & GMs for the future of the hospitality industry, (Canada, Asia, Middle East)
– Disney (creating compelling ideas for marketing, HK),
– Mercedes Benz (leadership & 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 UAE develop future leaders in innovation / Dubai.)
– Boeing – Leading and Recovering from Crisis (during Covid)
– Many large finance institutions (Future of work, & 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
– APEC CEO Summit & APEC University Leaders’ Forum (Vietnam)
– Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) Global Edge & GLC ROW Conference
– TEDx (HK).
– Four Seasons Hotel International CEO Conference (Canada)
– The World Innovation Conference (France),
– HR Summit & HR Smart Workforce (Singapore)
– A series of headline keynotes at extended international roadshows for:
Fuji Xerox, PwC, J&J, Salesforce, and Citibank. AMP, Singtel / Optus, Daimler, UBS, Colpal IBM, Accenture, Boeing, S&P Global
Media
Feedback
Both the book and the 'roadshow' are captivating. Andrew Grant has star quality and uses it positively. Andrew has worked on leadership and team development around the globe for more than 15 years, but his presentation still yields the bravado of youth, nicely seasoned with the wisdom of a recognised leader in his field. He's young at heart, and ferociously clever with it.
Exceeded expectations... your program made our team more comfortable working with these issues, gave the topic more credibility, and it was actionable.
You gave us compelling ideas that are worthwhile for use in our marketing.
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 our 10 year history.
One of the highest ranked seminars of the year for YPO (Young Presidents Organization) scoring an amazing 9.6/10.
A quick note of appreciation for the keynote you delivered in Singapore this week.
The time you took to have dinner with myself and several event attendees the night prior offered a great opportunity to connect you to the details of the industry and the points of interest of the audience. You asked some great questions and were able to leverage the information shared into a presentation that really connected the audience and the topic together - thank you! I know that this connection took place based on the feedback I received from people at the event. Innovation, adapting to change, the importance of creativity, and how to introduce it into your daily life, personally and professionally: all of these were themes in the feedback I received.
A little bit of humor, some magic and the simplicity of how you presented a pretty substantial topic kept the audience fully engaged and wanting more!
As a sponsor, as an event participant, and as a person who cares about innovation and creativity, I thank you!
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 perspective. it made us really stop and think about how we were going about addressing our client's challenges.
