Andy Boynton
Andy Boynton

Andy Boynton

Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Executive Coach, Leadership, Strategy and Innovation Expert

Speaking Topics

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  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Strategy
  • Execution
  • Change Management
  • Innovation

Travels From

  • MA

Speaker's Fee Range

  • $20,000 - $40,000

Andy Boynton

Andy Boynton's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Andy Boynton is Dean of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, one of the world’s leading business schools, the author of several books and co-creator of DeepDive™, the world’s leading methodology for helping executives harness the power of teams to significantly improve problem-solving speed, innovation and results.

Andy's presentation was spot on. He spurred our group of over 2500 professionals to approach innovative thinking as something important to their every day focus and showed how truly simple it can be. Andy clearly connected with a diverse group of professionals from over 26 countries. His straight forward presentation achieved our objective of encouraging our people to become idea hunters.

- PricewaterhouseCoopers

Prior to joining Boston College, Andrew Boynton was a professor of strategy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland for 10 years. At the IMD he led a faculty team and was program director of one of the world's top ten Executive MBA programs, as recognized by Business Week.

Boynton has recently launched new research projects to explore how distinguished experts from a variety of knowledge-domains work with ideas to achieve professional success and improve their effectiveness in social networks.

His latest book, The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen, is based on this research and is co-authored with Bill Fischer and William Bole. He has also published extensively on factors underlying high-performing teams across a variety of disciplines, including art, science, exploration, and design. His previous books include Virtuoso Teams: Lessons from Teams That Changed Their Worlds and Invented Here: Maximizing Your Organizations Internal Growth and Profitability.

In addition to his publishing career and role as Dean of the Carroll School of Management, Andrew Boynton has over twenty years of experience speaking and designing powerful executive education sessions and seminars for firms around the world. 

More About Speaker, Andy Boynton. . .
Andy Boynton is a 1978 graduate of Boston College. Boynton earned his MBA and PhD at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has served on the MBA faculty at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business and at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

Andrew Boynton  is often utilized by organizations looking to build more innovative and effective teams and his articles in this area have appeared in elite management journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and the California Management Review.

Suggested Keynote Programs
  • High Performance Leadership and/or Teamwork
  • Strategy Formulation and Implementation (Execution)
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Innovation and Problem Solving — The DeepDive™
What People Are Saying

"Andy Boynton is one of the top speakers and workshop facilitators we have ever had at IMD or that I have ever seen in action. He has exceptional skills and experiences to work with firms to design the perfect speech, bring any workshop to life, and add energy and create an interactive experience enjoyed and valued by all. He is a master among great executive education teachers, speakers, and facilitators.".

--- - James Pulcrano, Executive Director of Marketing, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

"When I have a workshop or conference to design and facilitate, I call Andy Boynton first. He's the guru of creating excellent client workshop or seminar experiences. He is the master. Andy Boynton knows more about teaching and designing a great executive workshop or class than any person I know."

--- Howard Weinberg, Partner at Deloitte in the Strategy and Innovation Practice