Andrew Grant and Dr. Gaia Grant

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, strategic growth. This new wave of growth is reshaping leadership, forcing executives to balance tradition with transformation, speed with strategy, and innovation with stability.

This keynote explores the paradox of AI adoption—how leaders can harness its potential without losing control, disrupting teams, derailing innovation, and fracturing organizations. Through groundbreaking insights from The Innovation Race, this keynote/workshop introduces powerful tools like the Innovation Climate Leadership Indicator (iCLi) and Dynamic Polar Positioning (DPoP) to help leaders navigate digital transformation.

This interactive session equips executives with practical strategies to foster agility, resilience, and sustainable innovation—ensuring they don’t just keep up with AI but lead through the disruption.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the impact of AI on leadership and innovation
• Effectively master & lead through the tension between speed and strategy in AI-driven change
• Gain insights into leadership styles and how to manage competing demands
• Learn practical ways to navigate digital transformation with confidence

Dr Gaia Grant &/OR Andrew Grant will not just help you keep up with AI, but lead through the tension.

AI is redefining problem-solving and innovation, raising crucial questions about how human creativity can stay relevant. In this keynote/workshop session, Andrew Grant & Dr. Gaia Grant 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 World Economic Forum continues to emphasize creative and critical thinking as essential leadership skills—even as AI transforms industries. 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 Design Thinking?

Key Takeaways & Discussion 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 – Understand how AI can collaborate with human thought processes, tackling complex challenges and wicked problems that defy simple solutions.
• Gain actionable strategies for leading innovation in the AI era.

Andrew Grant &/OR 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.

Who will win, lose, and be eliminated? What does successful & sustainable innovation look like?

Includes:

• Best practices — Countries, Companies, Cultures

• Innovation Leaders

• Business Transformation in an AI world