Sparking creative collisions to transform leadership and shape innovative culture
Andrew Grant is a leading innovation and transformation expert, Director of Tirian, and co-author of The Innovation Race and the international bestseller Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can We Get it Back?. He works with global leaders to drive cultural change and unlock creative potential through practical, research-backed strategies.
Andrew has delivered keynote sessions and programs for Fortune 500 companies across sectors, including Google, Disney, Salesforce, Nestlé, and the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. His work has been featured in the BBC, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.
In partnership with Dr Gaia Grant (PhD), University of Sydney Business School, Andrew has spent three decades researching what drives innovation in organisations and societies. Together, they’ve developed tools such as the Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi) and a CSI-style board game to help teams diagnose and improve creativity.
Andrew’s sessions are interactive, engaging, and outcome-focused. He combines academic rigour with humour and global insight, ensuring relevance for diverse audiences. His keynote highlights include TEDx, APEC CEO Summit, YPO Global Edge, and major corporate roadshows across Asia-Pacific.
With over 20 years of full-time professional speaking experience, Andrew equips audiences with the mindset and tools to lead innovation and manage change with confidence.
Talking Points
Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: Andrew Grant
Critical thinking is a leadership imperative in a fast-changing, AI-enabled workplace. This session shows how to pair creative idea generation with rigorous evaluation to deliver practical outcomes. It addresses biases, assumptions and decision traps, and clarifies where AI helps and where human judgement must lead. Attendees leave with simple methods to strengthen reflective judgement and make better calls under pressure.Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: Andrew Grant
Key Takeaways
- Use critical thinking to turn ideas into workable solutions
- Understand AI’s strengths and limits for decision-making
- Spot and reduce cognitive biases in teams
- Apply practical tools for leadership and workplace competency
- Learn through real cases and interactive frameworks
Leading Innovation on the Edge Navigating the AI Adoption Divide (Andrew Grant &/or Dr Gaia Grant)
AI is amplifying leadership tensions, from speed versus strategy to agility versus stability. This keynote cuts through hype with practical tools that help leaders manage paradoxes and drive sustainable innovation. Drawing on The Innovation Race, University of Sydney research, the iCLi and DPoP tools, it equips leaders to implement AI with control and confidence. The focus is future readiness, not prediction.Leading Innovation on the Edge Navigating the AI Adoption Divide (Andrew Grant &/or Dr Gaia Grant)
Key Takeaways
- Understand AI’s impact on leadership and innovation
- Balance urgency with discipline in transformation
- Identify effective leadership styles for competing demands
- Apply iCLi and DPoP to execute digital change with confidence
Remaining Competitive in The Innovation Race Who will win, who will lose, and why it matters
Many innovation efforts fail because organisations see only part of the puzzle. This session shares global lessons from The Innovation Race to turn disruption into advantage. It highlights the conditions that enable sustainable innovation beyond short-lived tech hype. Leaders gain clear guidelines for resilient, agile and adaptive organisations.Remaining Competitive in The Innovation Race Who will win, who will lose, and why it matters
Key Takeaways
- Identify what drives sustainable innovation globally
- Use best-practice benchmarks for strategic action
- Build cultures that support organisation-wide transformation
Are you an Ambidextrous Leader? Managing rapid innovation and change through strategic resilience
Ambidextrous leadership balances agility with consistency to navigate rapid change. This session introduces practical tools, including iCLi and DPoP, to manage tensions and build strategic resilience. Participants assess their Explore and Preserve orientations, address biases and align behaviours with long-term value. The result is confident leadership through complex change, including the AI paradox.Are you an Ambidextrous Leader? Managing rapid innovation and change through strategic resilience
Key Takeaways
- Balance agility and consistency across teams and roles
- Decode leadership mindsets and default biases
- Use diagnostics for targeted development
- Apply tools that drive sustainable change
- Build adaptive, resilient teams
The Collaboration Concept Leading collaborative innovation and change in a competitive corporate culture (link) (Andrew Grant &/or Dr Gaia Grant)
Real collaboration is hard, especially in competitive cultures. This session asks when people truly cooperate, then tests it through a gamified social experiment. Participants see the cost of low trust and free-riding, and learn how to activate genuine collaboration. Using the iCLi framework, it shows how to balance independence with co-creation for sustained innovation.The Collaboration Concept Leading collaborative innovation and change in a competitive corporate culture (link) (Andrew Grant &/or Dr Gaia Grant)
Key Takeaways
- Recognise forces that block collaboration in corporate settings
- See the impact of non-collaborative behaviours on performance
- Engage opposing viewpoints with constructive tactics
- Change behaviours and systems that reinforce silos
The AI Creative Challenge Do we need to learn to be creative now that AI can do it for us? (Andrew Grant / Dr Gaia Grant)
AI can accelerate creative work, but it cannot replace human ingenuity. This session shows leaders when and how to integrate AI without losing control of creative intent. The AI Creativity Utilisation Dial provides a simple way to select the right human-AI mix for complex or wicked problems. Attendees leave with practical steps to lift outcomes in Creative and Design Thinking.The AI Creative Challenge Do we need to learn to be creative now that AI can do it for us? (Andrew Grant / Dr Gaia Grant)
Key Takeaways
- Maximise creativity while maintaining human judgement and strategy
- Use AI to enhance, not dilute, creative and design processes
- Apply the AI Creativity Utilisation Dial to live challenges
Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ) Skills Solving wicked problems for a competitive business advantage
Wicked problems demand more than technical skill. They require creative intelligence, a suite of capabilities that drive curiosity, adaptability and insight. This keynote introduces seven CQ skills and links them to commercial outcomes, supported by research-based exercises and case studies. Simple illusions reveal cognitive traps and unlock practical shifts in everyday work.Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ) Skills Solving wicked problems for a competitive business advantage
Key Takeaways
- Learn the seven CQ attributes that enable creativity
- Map CQ with tools such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
- Translate CQ into business outcomes with seven case studies
- Apply CQ principles to your current wicked challenges
The Creativity Crisis How to spot the psychological blocks that might be killing your creative thinking (Alternative heading: Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can we Get it Back?)
Creative capacity drops as adults enter the workforce, even as it becomes more critical for leadership. This engaging, CSI-themed session diagnoses psychological and environmental blockers to creativity using insights from neuroscience and psychology. Participants learn rescuer strategies to rebuild creative confidence and shape a culture that supports innovation beyond tools and AI.The Creativity Crisis How to spot the psychological blocks that might be killing your creative thinking (Alternative heading: Who Killed Creativity?... And How Can we Get it Back?)
Key Takeaways
- Identify psychological blocks that reduce creative thinking
- Apply proven rescuer strategies to reignite creativity
- Embed culture change principles that sustain innovation
Video
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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.Masterful storytellers who have compiled a rich set of tools for sustainable innovation methods. ... keep reading Salesforce
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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.
Top marks for helping us ensure that the whole issue of creating a supporting culture that enables our key strategic initiatives to become successful.
A superb presentation and facilitation to help merge YPO and WPO at our global conference.
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.
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.
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!
