Andrew and Gaia Grant deliver high-impact insights on innovation, culture, and sustainable transformation with an engaging co-presenting style.
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CEO | Australia | DOWNER EDI MINING
Andrew Grant and Dr Gaia Grant are global innovation transformation specialists with more than three decades exploring what drives truly “creativogenic” cultures. As bestselling authors, researchers, and highly engaging presenters, they translate deep academic insights into practical tools leaders can apply immediately. Their co-presenting format blends energy with thoughtful dialogue, creating an interactive keynote experience that suits conferences, executive programs, and hybrid workshop settings. Whether working together or individually, they tailor every session to audience needs and strategic outcomes.
Andrew Grant and Dr Gaia Grant have spent over 30 years researching how innovation truly works, why some cultures accelerate creativity while others silently block it. Their long-term study of “creativogenic” environments forms the foundation of their bestselling books The Innovation Race and Who Killed Creativity?, both of which position them as prominent voices on sustainable innovation and cultural transformation. Their message is rooted in academically validated research and paired with practical tools designed for leaders navigating constant change.
Together, Andrew and Gaia deliver a co-presenting experience that stands out. Their style blends high-energy delivery with a relaxed, podcast-like conversational tone. Instead of switching abruptly between speakers, they flow naturally between roles, sometimes leading, sometimes facilitating, always keeping the audience engaged. This makes their sessions especially effective in hybrid keynote-workshop formats, where participation, reflection, and interaction matter as much as inspiration.
Gaia Grant’s work as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School brings academic depth to their delivery. Her PhD explored innovation sustainability across leadership, strategy, and entrepreneurship. She developed the Innovation Climate Indicator (iCLi), an academically validated diagnostic tool used to measure innovation readiness. The iCLi helps executive teams identify the tensions they must successfully navigate to embed lasting cultural change.
Andrew Grant complements this with extensive experience facilitating leadership teams across industries and cultures. He is known for using interactive simulations and creative frameworks to help participants experience the dynamics of innovation rather than simply hear about them. His approach makes abstract concepts tangible, resulting in sessions that produce genuine behavioural shifts.
Their work has been featured in major global platforms, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and leading broadcast networks. Their clients span industries and continents—Google, AWS, Nestlé, Disney, Mercedes-Benz, Estée Lauder, Boeing, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Duke University, and the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. They also work with top-tier financial institutions such as Citibank, Visa, S&P Global, Goldman Sachs, and UBS.
Their keynote highlights reflect this global reach: TEDx, YPO Global Edge, the APEC CEO Summit, PwC’s US National Conference, Gartner ITXpo, Lenovo Accelerate360, The World Innovation Conference, Salesforce ANZ Roadshow, The Four Seasons CEO/GM Conference, and HR Summit. These engagements demonstrate their ability to speak to diverse audiences, from executives and educators to innovation leaders and global policy groups.
Engaging Andrew and Gaia means benefiting from a blend of academic insight, real-world application, and a presentation style that keeps audiences fully involved. Their co-presenting approach brings together diverse perspectives, academic and practical, male and female, research and applied strategy. This combination helps audiences see innovation through multiple lenses, making their message both relatable and actionable.
Their delivery is lively, balanced, and well-suited for audiences with varied backgrounds. They bring interactive moments, reflective questions, and storytelling into each keynote, ensuring that participants remain engaged from start to finish. Their 20+ years of professional speaking for Fortune 500 companies further reinforces the reliability and impact of their work.
One of the most distinctive aspects of Andrew and Gaia’s work is their collaborative, dialogue-based keynote format. Their sessions feel like a dynamic conversation, shifting between insights, examples, questions, and interactive facilitation. This structure mirrors the collaborative leadership and innovation principles they teach.
In one of their sections, they incorporate strategic interaction to reinforce learning:
Sample interactive elements they may include:
Short reflective exercises for leadership alignment
Gamified simulations illustrating innovation barriers
Diagnostic debriefs guided by the iCLi framework
Practical tools for navigating innovation tensions
Scenario-based conversations tailored to industry needs
This dual approach transforms the keynote into a learning experience. Participants walk away with frameworks they can apply immediately and a deeper understanding of the behaviours that enable sustainable innovation.
Every engagement is customized to the audience’s organisational goals. Whether running a high-impact conference keynote or an immersive leadership development session, Andrew and Gaia prepare pre-event alignment discussions and offer supporting resources afterwards to ensure continuity. Their content is original, their tools are tested, and their delivery consistently leads to practical business outcomes.
For organisations seeking to ignite innovation, shift culture, or strengthen collaborative leadership, Andrew Grant and Dr Gaia Grant offer a powerful partnership. Booking them means choosing research-backed insights, engaging delivery, and transformation-ready ideas that resonate long after the event ends.
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“A strong relevance to our business to help us understand the issues that we struggle with day-to-day.”
David Overall CEO | Australia | DOWNER EDI MINING
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Director HR Oman DALEEL PETROLEUM
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"A very productive time of learning and helpful to discuss issues. You created many great ideas that we can work with."
Guy Heywood regional GM | AMAN RESORTS
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Richard Hoon ROW Chairperson Global Leadership Conference. - Young Presidents Organization / World Presidents Organization (YPO / WPO)
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Asia Pacific Manager Premier Partners Global Network | FUJI XEROX
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“You did an amazing job to help us translate big ideas into execution.”
Agnes Durlik Head of Portfolio, Governance & Change | AMP BANK
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"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”.
Erik Skramstad Partner | Director | US Advisory Forensic Services | PWC
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“You helped our team understand our company promise of ‘intuitive personal service’ and then worked with us to agree on ways to develop this in delivery terms.”
Simon Casson President Hotel Operations | EMEA | FOUR SEASONS HOTELS & RESORTS
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“Top marks for helping us ensure that the whole issue of creating a supporting culture that enables our key strategic initiatives, becomes successful.”
John Gilbert Global Operations, London UK | UBS INVESTMENT BANK
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“Your knowledge, professionalism, and willingness to work with us were key to the success of these seminars.”
Doug Wieringa Global Strategic Initiatives | BOEING
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“The Grants have provided a fresh and insightful tool that not only explains innovation in a unique way but also helps the reader understand how to apply this to gain competitive advantage in today’s business world. You will be educated and entertained by compelling stories about organisations that both failed and succeeded to understand the importance of innovation in their market.’
Sam Lasseter-Moore Sales Director New Zealand.
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“Masterful story tellers who have compiled a rich set of tools for sustainable innovation methods.”
Derek Laney Head of Product Marketing Asia Pacific, Salesforce.com
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“Your research-driven insights and real-world examples highlighted how embracing the Explorer–Preserver paradox enables ambidextrous leadership and fuels innovation.”
Adrian Thake Commercial Channel Sales Manager | LENOVO (ANZ)
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Keynote by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant:
Navigating the AI Adoption Divide
The rapid rise of AI is reshaping leadership, adding an unpredictable ‘X factor’ to an already complex landscape.
As businesses race to innovate, leaders must juggle competing demands, balancing urgency and caution to drive sustainable growth. This new wave of growth is reshaping leadership, forcing executives to balance tradition with transformation, speed with strategy, and agility with stability.
This session cuts through the noise, tackling the core paradoxes of AI-driven transformation and providing practical strategies. Covering areas such as decision-making, problem-solving, innovation culture development and leadership tactics, participants learn how to balance creative ingenuity with AI-powered efficiency. The topic provides a powerful introduction and/or subplot to ensure AI works for—not against—innovation, empowering organizations to thrive in an era of disruption.
The dynamic keynote also investigates the unique challenges of AI adoption: exploring how leaders can harness the potential without losing control. Through groundbreaking insights from Andrew and Gaia Grant’s book The Innovation Race and Gaia Grant’ unique research with the University of Sydney Business School, the keynote/workshop introduces powerful tools like the Innovation Climate Leadership Indicator (iCLi) and Dynamic Polar Positioning (DPoP) tool to demonstrate to leaders how to navigate digital transformation. A number of case studies are also introduced to demonstrate how the principles and tools introduced can be applied in practice.
While many futurists indulge in revealing dazzling forecasts and speculative tech marvels, Andrew Grant and Dr. Gaia Grant offer a grounded, strategic approach. This keynote doesn’t seek to predict the future. Instead, it equips leaders to confidently manage uncertainty. The messages are not focused on future fantasy, the focus is on future readiness. As a result executives and leaders are equipped with practical strategies to foster agility, resilience, and sustainable innovation, ensuring they don’t just keep up with AI but lead through the disruption.
Dr Gaia Grant &/OR Andrew Grant will not just help you keep up with AI, but lead through the tension. Participants walk away with the confidence to lead transformational change in an era where complexity, creativity and AI must coexist.
Key Takeaways & Talking Points
Understand the impact of AI on leadership and innovation
Navigate the tensions between speed and strategy in AI-driven change
Gain insights into effective leadership styles and how to manage the competing demands
Apply practical models and tools designed to executive digital transformation with confidence
Keynote by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant:
Do we need to learn to be creative now that AI can do it for us?
The World Economic Forum continues to emphasize creative and critical thinking as essential leadership skills, even as AI transforms industries.
In the age of intelligent technology, it will be important to learn to drive efficiency without sacrificing creativity or losing the human spark. As AI redefines problem-solving and innovation, it raises crucial questions about how human creativity can remain relevant. The challenge remains: Will AI kill creativity or enhance it? How can leaders strike the right balance between AI and human contribution when tackling wicked problems in projects requiring Creative Intelligence and Design Thinking?
In this keynote and/or workshop session, participants are invited to explore the evolving relationship between AI and creative thinking, offering strategic insights on how leaders can leverage AI without losing control of ingenuity and innovation. The practical AI Creativity Utilization Dial is introduced as a tool for identifying how and when to incorporate AI in the creative thinking process.
Andrew Grant & Dr. Gaia Grant won’t just help you use AI, they’ll show you how to harness it to supercharge creative thinking and tackle wicked problems with greater precision and efficiency.
Key Takeaways & Talking Points
Maximize creativity without losing control – learn when to integrate AI while maintaining human ingenuity, creativity and ensuring alignment with strategic goals
Use AI for better results in creative & design thinking through understanding how AI can collaborate with human thought processes, tackling complex challenges and wicked problems that defy simple solutions
Practice using the AI Creativity Utilization Dial for identifying how to lead innovation in specific contexts
Keynote by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant:
Are your leaders struggling to innovate fast enough without risking what already keeps the business stable?
Keynotes by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant solve this challenge by giving leaders a clear, practical way to navigate the tension at the heart of modern innovation.
Through topics like Leading on the Edge, The Innovation Race, and Are You an Innovative Leader?, they show how to balance the Explore and Preserve mindsets, build agile and ambidextrous teams, and prepare for an AI-driven future. Their iLCi innovation profiling, purpose-driven decision frameworks, and immersive Collaboration Concept simulation help teams move from confusion to confident action.
The result is a powerful value proposition: leaders who can innovate rapidly, responsibly, and collaboratively, without losing sight of what matters most.
Core Keynote AND/OR A hybrid keynote / workshop. This option allows for the participants and all stakeholders to walk away with interactive, actionable data from the collective intelligence of the group’s contributions to real live workplace challenges and solutions. (rec 1- 2 hours.)
Keynote by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant:
Is your team struggling to generate fresh ideas and worried that AI might replace creativity rather than enhance it?
Keynotes by Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant are designed to reignite innovative thinking while showing leaders how to harness AI without losing the human spark.
Through topics like The AI Creative Challenge and Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ), they help teams understand their personal creative strengths, uncover barriers that block originality, and learn how to turn creativity into a competitive advantage. Their insights from Who Killed Creativity? reveal why creative processes often fail and how to build them back stronger.
With The 7 Critical Creative Thinking Strategies, participants gain practical, repeatable tools for generating new ideas that actually work.
The value proposition is clear: leaders and teams who can create with confidence, think beyond the obvious, and leverage both human and AI creativity to drive meaningful innovation.
Core Keynote AND/OR A hybrid keynote / workshop. This option allows for the participants and all stakeholders to walk away with interactive, actionable data from the collective intelligence of the group’s contributions to real live workplace challenges and solutions. (rec 1- 2 hours.)
Watch Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant in action!
Watch Andrew Grant & Gaia Grant in action!
