INNOVATE:
Innovation Leadership & Future-Ready Thinking
Programs in this Suite
THE INNOVATION LEADER / DEVELOPING AMBIDEXTROUS LEADERS
Exploring the value of ‘Innovative Change Leadership’ for dealing with rapid changeIR1 CORE MODULES
1. Identifying innovation biases: How do you like to travel & the core competing demands
2. Managing competing innovation demands: Navigating the innovation paradox & the nested dimensions
3. Applying the Innovative Change Leadership (iCLi) principles: Your leadership style, work with others & innovative problem-solving
THE INNOVATION TEAM / FOSTERING ALIGNED TEAMS
Establishing and leading ambidextrous, agile & aligned teams to manage competing innovation challengesIR2 CORE MODULES
1. Managing team innovation: Navigating the Innovation Highway through Dynamic Polar Positioning
2. Team innovation action plans: Planning individual and team innovation actions
3. Strategic team scenario planning: Establishing roles in the context of the team to assess and understand openness to change
THE INNOVATION ORGANISATION / BUILDING AN AGILE ORGANIZATION
Mapping innovation culture for strategic organizational alignment. Features “The Amazing Innovation Race” gamified simulation activity to identify global trends.IR3 CORE MODULES
1. Innovation leadership global trends: The future of the innovation race & Identifying different approaches to innovation around the world.
2. Organisation best practices: Examining case studies of companies, countries & culture best of (and not so best of)
3. Identifying & addressing organisation innovation tensions: Discovering past, present & future states, Improving innovation culture through designing & measuring expected behaviours
STRATEGIC INNOVATION ACTIONS
Sustaining an innovation culture & purpose through strategic planning & implementationIR4 CORE MODULES
1. Purpose-Driven Innovation Scanner: Competing demands for ‘purpose-driven’ innovation paradox and changing the metrics
2. Applying the ‘Innovation Race Line’ approach: Strategic Planning Canvas: Sprints / Grand Prix)
3. Stakeholder Scenario Planning: The Innovation Spring model: How to lead through scale-up & navigate change
EXTENSION & DEEP DIVES
Diagnosis, Consulting, Research, Mentoring, Innovation Auditing & TTTIR6 CORE MODULES
- Executive Level Coaching: Innovation Coaching, Mentoring & Managing Innovation
- Coaching TTT & Accreditation: Become a Future-Ready Innovation Leadership Coach
- Consulting & Innovation Auditing: Ethnographic Research, Capabilities & Readiness Assessing
- Deep Dive Topics & Research: Books, White Papers & Academic Validity
About the Future Ready Leadership Paradox
IDENTIFYING THE INNOVATION TENSION
between stability and transformational change
Leaders will need to effectively deal with the competing demands change brings. Change (and particularly unknown/unexpected change) creates tension. This tension can either fuel or frustrate innovation and growth. Leaders need to manage this tension to ensure the organization/team can transition to sustainable new ways of working.
There has never been a more important time to facilitate this tension to ensure it is channeled into productive growth. Some will be itching to explore new options, while others will bunker down and want to maintain current systems. The reality is that we need both approaches. Our Future-Ready, iCLi and innovation suites contents identify how to utilize this tension for leadership and organization success.
MANAGING THE FUTURE-READY PARADOX
& navigating AI-driven transformation
Future leaders will need to learn how to become Ambidextrous, Agile & Aligned to deal with the complexities and challenges of constant rapid change. In this program learn how to build and lead teams for innovation, identify your personal innovation strengths and weaknesses (using our self-assessment tools) and transform your organization from within. Discover and use the paradoxes of future-ready leadership and learn how a leader can manage this by understanding the ‘exploration’ and ‘preservation’ biases. Being an innovation leader is not necessarily about being an ‘Innovator’, but is instead more about recognising and mobilising diverse perspectives and capabilities to enable innovation ambidexterity at all levels.
MEMORABLE THEME
The Global Race – Winning, Losing and Elimination
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH BASED ON
Anthropological analysis of companies, countries and cultures that can sustain innovation
Features + more
Is The Innovation Race Sustainable? – Shorts: Trailer & Quotes (DevReady Podcast EP 104)
Embracing the AI Paradox to Win the Innovation Race
While many futurists indulge in dazzling forecasts and speculative tech marvels, Andrew Grant and Dr. Gaia Grant cut through the noise with a grounded, strategic approach. Their keynote—Future-Proofing Innovation Leadership in the Digital Age—doesn’t seek to predict the future. Instead, it equips leaders to confidently manage uncertainty by embracing the paradoxes of AI and innovation. It’s not about future fantasy—it’s about future readiness.
Rather than dazzling with predictions and tech showmanship, Andrew and Gaia offer something far more relevant for today’s leaders: a practical framework to lead innovation through uncertainty. Their keynotes transform future thinking from speculation into a leadership discipline. Participants won’t be asked to dream about distant possibilities. Instead, they’ll be equipped to navigate real-time paradoxes, integrate AI with strategic intention, and foster adaptive innovation that sticks. This is about future-proofing with substance: not predicting the unknown, but empowering leaders to shape it. The kind that moves beyond trendspotting and equips leaders to win a race that’s already begun.
Key Outcomes:
- Understand the AI Leadership Paradox: Learn how to lead confidently through the tension between speed, strategy, and innovation in an AI-driven environment.
- Balance Creative Ingenuity with Tech Efficiency: Discover how to harness AI for smarter problem-solving without losing the human spark.
- Master Complexity with Adaptability: Navigate the X-factor of AI disruption using practical tools to assess leadership climate and adjust styles.
- Lead Innovation with Measurable Impact: Connect tools like CQ (Creative Intelligence) and DPoP to key performance outcomes and real organizational challenges.
- Foster Resilient & Agile Teams: Build innovation-ready cultures equipped to respond to change without derailing purpose or productivity.
How It Differs:
- Prediction vs Preparation: These sessions focus on building resilient mindsets and adaptive systems that thrive—even when the future defies forecasting.
- Tech-Centric vs Human-Centered: Rather than chasing trends, the Grants help leaders find equilibrium between rapid AI-driven change and the creative, human spark that fuels lasting innovation.
- From Crystal Balls to Compass Tools: With field-tested models like Dynamic Polar Positioning (DPoP) and Creative Intelligence (CQ), leaders gain practical tools to align innovation with measurable impact.
- Beyond the AI Hype: Learn to lead through the tension of AI disruption—accelerating progress while preserving originality and control.
SEE MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC: Leading Through the Paradoxes of the AI Race
