Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant Speaking Topics

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  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?

  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

The Innovation Race

Focus Session 1: Who wins, who loses, who gets eliminated? Tools for creating a competitive edge.

Focus Session 2: Innovation Futures – why we need to change the game. Tools for sustainable, ethical and purpose driven innovation.

Focus Session 3: Dealing with disruptive innovation. Strategies for identifying and implementing breakthrough concepts that can change the world.

MORE: Why have some great countries, cultures and companies charged ahead at the forefront of innovation, while others have struggled to survive? Who are the most innovative cultures in the world and why? And what does this mean for organizations today and for the race to survive and thrive? Drawing on fascinating insights from different cultures around the world, this session (based on the breakthrough new book The Innovation Race) reveals principles we can use to create a culture that supports purpose-driven and sustainable innovation and ultimately changes the game. The session includes fascinating practical case studies from the authors’ vast consulting experience and from their in depth research. Fast-paced entertainment and humour are blended with deep social and anthropological facts, with profound implications for facing contemporary challenges. Participants discover the enduring cultural traits that foster true creative thinking and innovation through being introduced to the 4 key innovation paradoxes and learning how to navigate them successfully.

The Innovation Race: A global adventure to discover which countries and cultures win, who loses and who gets eliminated. Explores how to navigate the 4 key innovation paradoxes to change a culture and change the game for purpose-driven innovation at all levels.

The Magic of Creative Thinking (intro).

“We see not the world ‘as it is’ – but we see the world in a way that proved useful in the past.”

A FAST PACED active session that is packed full of magic tricks, which quickly segues to challenging people about their mindset and mental models, peppered with some interesting information from neuroscience. Through a powerful metaphor, this session shows the strong connection between what magicians and creative thinking have in common: why people are so easily fooled by magic, and so readily blocked from solutions based creative thinking.

At the end of this keynote participants will develop the ability to look for solutions outside their standard boundaries and habitual ways of thinking.