Every journey begins with a single step.
Grant Rawlinson is a decision-making coach, professional speaker and facilitator, and a world-class human-powered explorer. He has walked across countries, cycled continents, climbed the worlds highest mountains and rowed seas. Coupled with 18 years in the corporate world, Grant's unique experience and skills will take your teams on the most authentic, unique and exciting learning experience possible.
With 20 years achieving powerful goals selling and leading teams from the street level to the boardrooms, playing international rugby, over 50 expeditions across the globe including climbing Mt Everest and crossing oceans and continents by human-power, Axe uses the knowledge he has gained to inspire and help sales and business teams adopt the mindset of explorers, make better decisions and ultimately achieve higher, harder and more powerful goals!
His presentations inspire and power up your team to not only think innovatively but how to drive the implementation of innovative solutions.
Add value to your event with Grant by driving home your key themes. Tried and tested, he has spoken professionally for years across Asia Pacific to thousands of people. His message is authentic, unique and professionally delivered through his own stories using the most professionally produced and stunning supporting audio visuals.
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The Explorer's Mindset: Interactive keynotes for teams aspiring to innovate and lead in a complex world
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson's keynote addresses are world class, completely unique and 100% inspiring. Axe's keynotes focus on how to make more effective decisions to drive exploration and innovation and become antifragile in a complex world.The Explorer's Mindset: Interactive keynotes for teams aspiring to innovate and lead in a complex world
Grant speaks to audiences around the globe, from New York to London, Dubai to Hong Kong and Singapore to New Zealand. Every talk is customised to the specific themes of your event through a series of pre-event alignment calls. All Grant's talks use the backdrop of his exploratory, life and death human-powered journeys across countries, continents and sea's to drive your learnings home in ways that will never be forgotten.
What is The Explorer's Mindset?
In today’s highly competitive and fast moving world, more than ever business’s need to learn how to stand out from the crowd. To stand out, we need to think differently, to experiment, to innovate, to try new things and explore new ideas. This is what Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson calls the ‘Explorer’s Mindset’ and is about being number one by being unique, instead of playing in the same field as everyone else.
The ‘Explorer’s Mindset’ encompasses the ability to:
- Drive INNOVATION and transform bold, unique goals into reality
- Make COMPLEX DECISIONS together based on uncertain and ambiguous data
- Build highly ALIGNED & EMPOWERED teams to navigate complex environments
- Take responsible RISK & learn to effectively manage failure and setbacks
Develop ANTIFRAGILE mindsets and organisations
Workshops: Interactive decision making workshops for teams
Grant's workshops are world class, completely unique, experiential learning adventures! He takes your team on the journey of a lifetime where you experience how to work together more effectively to make the critical decisions to achieve powerful goals, lead your fields and become stronger in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world, where the consequences of failure are high!Workshops: Interactive decision making workshops for teams
-FOR THOSE WHO DARE
For teams who need to thrive in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
- INTO THE UNKNOWN
For teams who need to develop the Explorer's Mindset and drive innovation and change.
- FROM PEAK TO PEAK
For teams who need to achieve more with less
- MOUNTAINS OF DIVERSITY
For teams who need to make more effective decisions together in a complex world.
These workshops are aimed at teams under pressure to perform, where the consequences of failure are high, our workshops run in conference, workshop style, face to face or virtual settings for groups from 6 - 1,300+.
Utilising experiential learning Grant brings your teams through his world-first, human-powered expeditions where you and your teams make critical decisions, experience the outcomes and reflect on the learning.
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Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson's signature Keynote - 'The Explorer's Mindset'
Into the Unknown Workshop Introduction: Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson
For Those Who Dare Workshop Introduction: Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson
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This and the virtual webinar Grant delivered are amongst the top events I have attended anywhere. It is a perfect balance of inspirational speaker how delivers an experiential and interactive programme which enables us to experience lessons and learnings during the event - top draw.
The best run virtual event we've ever had and it created more positive energy than we thought was possible
Extremely relevant to the challenges faced in the corporate environment daily. This is what made him and his content stand out.
He had people hooked on his very word from the very beginning
Blown away! It felt like I was part of an immersive movie experience!
This the first talk I am feeling so sad that it has to end
Professional, highly engaging, full of energy, inspiring and most importantly had the learning on decision making that we were looking for
A perfect way to kickoff our annual Sales and Marketing conference
Lightens up the room and a very interactive speaking style
A hit with all the attendees and served as a great motivational boost!
Exceptionally well received by the industry CEO's in attendance.
A very high level of interaction with close to 1,000 people over 2 hrs. And the audience feedback to me was awesome
WOW! It definitely motivated me to be optimistic and to perform more than 100% in such difficult moments in RBS.
I've worked in food companies for 40+ years and at Kraft Heinz for 20+ and never saw anything like that. Probably the best session in my whole professional life
