Tirian: Innovation Consultancy and Facilitation

03/03/2025

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟My partner Gaia Grant and I will be working in Europe this April 2025 - and we're looking forward to catching up with colleagues in the region! 🎉 Don't miss this unique opportunity and reach out to let us know if you are interested in some support for your learning and development needs, such as with a keynote or workshop (available for this time at domestic rates within Europe), or if you would just like to find out what we're up to.

27/02/2025

Is the innovation leaderboard being reshuffled? -

In the high-stakes world of tech innovation, there's a critical leadership challenge that even giants like Google can't escape.

19/01/2025

From Ideas to Impact: How to implement your strategy effectively -

02/12/2024

Leading Innovation Transformation: Recognition as Top 10 Inspiring Leaders 2024 -

: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unified-magazine/ : https://www.instagram.com/unifiedmagazinee/ (twitter): https://x.com/unified_mag  

12/11/2024

Is AI MAD? In Nexus, a new book by Noah Harari he asks the question of how concerned we should be that AI development is currently being driven by techno-optimists and profit-seekers rather than ethicists, which could result in 'Mutual Assured Destruction?' This article is my thoughts connected to the ( ) innovation race, , & why it seems so hard to cooperate?

The nuclear arms race and our current AI challenges Game theory is a mathematical framework used for analyzing strategic interactions between rational decision-makers. In the Cold War, this framework was used to model the behavior of the United States and the Soviet Union as they decided whether to....

11/11/2024

The AI Race and insights from game theory: Why is collaboration so challenging (Pt 3) -

This new keynote and workshop helps leaders navigate multiple competing demands when trying to innovate responsibly. Participants learn how it is possible to innovate both radically (for agile adaptation to rapid change) and responsibly (for reliable and sustainable performance) – including how to...

17/10/2024

Another satisfied client. See what Lufthansa Germany has to say about the unique "Collaboration Concept" program. In this session, the participants take place in a live social experiment to answer the question, 'Under what conditions will people really collaborate?' This leads to a great business-facilitated debrief, to discuss action planning on "How can we ensure real collaboration happens in the workplace?"

Recognizing the excellent collaboration session led by Andrew Grant during our offsite in Germany at Lufthansa. "We brought together three software companie...

15/10/2024

Why is real collaboration so challenging? -

Uber was hailed as one of the most successful tech start-ups in the tech boom period. Yet in 2017 there was a very public meltdown due to a toxic culture. As a result there were internal investigations, a number of staff were fired, and the CEO Travis Kalanick resigned.   Many reasons for this cr...

03/09/2024

It was great to finally meet in person our Germany based partner - Bitou. Even better that they could join me to facilitate a gamified simulation on collaboration with several teams from the Lufthansa group. https://www.bitou.net/partner-page/

19/08/2024

Why is real collaboration so challenging? -

Mr Beast offers outrageous amounts of money to complete tasks, and there are plenty of viewers happy to be drawn in as armchair experts. It is a real-life 'squid games' show that seems to attract competitors with a hunger to win and to appeal to viewers through voyeurism. Amazon has now turned this....

19/08/2024

The artificial reality of ‘team building’ disguised as an endurance challenge or a ‘competitive race’ and trumpeted through the genre of contemporary reality TV needs to be challenged. Setting your own expectations and norms in collaboration with people at all levels of the organisation can better set you all up for success.

by Andrew Grant   The most popular YouTube channel ever, with over 309 million subscribers, is 'Mr. Beast.' Mr Beast offers outrageous amounts of money to complete tasks, and there are plenty of viewers happy to be drawn in as armchair experts. It is a real-life 'squid games' show that seems to att...

08/07/2024

The power of integration -

I recently had the opportunity to work with a global company that wanted to address some critical issues. They had conducted a comprehensive employee survey, and the top three priorities came out as the need for better employee engagement, innovative process optimisation and customer service. Up u...

05/07/2024

Unlocking Success: Integrating Employee Engagement, Innovative Process Optimization, and Customer Service for a 400% Improvement

I recently had the opportunity to work with a global company that wanted to address some critical issues. They had conducted a comprehensive employee survey, and the top three priorities came out as the need for better employee engagement, innovative process optimisation and customer service. Up unt...

14/06/2024

Why Does Apple Seem Slow to Adapt But Best at Reaching Customers?

At the recent WWDC, Tim Cook shared insights on Apple's approach to AI: they prioritize how features benefit the end user over the technical details. As Cook stated, "we talk about ‘crash detection,' we don’t need to talk about the tech behind the feature."

This embodies the 7th attribute of Creative Quotation (CQ) we call Abstraction. Apple excels in transforming tech specs into compelling narratives that resonate with their audience. Their ability to contextualize technology and make it user-centric sets them apart as industry leaders.

AI...Siri... magic mouse... we talk about it allWWDC 2024 Recap: https://youtu.be/qkYoBNdcXBUMKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.comTech I'm using right now: http...

22/05/2024

Great to finally see Gaia Grant's research officially now in a new book. "Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership". If you want a sneak preview and excerpt read this article.

Why do leaders find it so challenging to innovate responsibly? An adapted excerpt from Gaia's new book on Purpose-Driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development (Routledge, 2024)   Purpose-driven innovation is not a 'nice-to-have' option for contemporary companies, it's become an imperati...

20/05/2024

Leading for purpose-driven innovation -

13/04/2024

The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is returning to Sydney in October, it is set to host 1000+ sessions spanning arts, culture and tech.

Vote now: Please help shape the program into what you’d like to see. Several proposals have been put forward by The University of Sydney Business School community and Tirian Innovative Solutions.

- Purpose driven leadership – Dr Gaia Grant (PhD)

- Who killed creativity and how to get it back? – Andrew Grant and Dr Gaia Grant (PhD)

- Andrew Grant: The future of work. Leading an AI driven workforce

Support us and cast your vote by 22 April.

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Get ready to ignite your imagination and be a driving force for inspiration!SXSW Sydney's Session Select is back, providing a platform for thinkers and dreamers to share their ground-breaking ideas.

13/04/2024

Heading to Vietnam, Singapore & Indonesia next week. If anyone there would like to catch up let me know.

Would love to share with you how we are staying up to date and have been exploring the future of work - leading with the new kid on the block, AI! Our latest keynote and workshop topics include:

1) INNOVATE. Leading Future Business Transformation with an AI-empowered Workforce: Changing The Paradigm from Evolution to Reinvention.

2) CREATE. Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ): Skills for competitive future business advantage. Are humans more creative than AI? And why does this matter?

Would love to find out what you’ve been up to!