For 20 years he has helped enterprise, government and defence teams turn complex challenges into clear decisions and practical action, and helped their people build the capability to do it again without him. He teaches at Oxford, LSE and Northeastern University London, and speaks on innovation, AI productivity and deciding before the evidence is complete.
The work
What participants say
“Superb facilitation, some of the best I have seen in 24 years of Service.”
Teaching
Grant teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at three of London and Oxford's leading universities, running the same sprint method he uses with enterprise and defence clients. Students leave with customer evidence, an experiment and a pitch, in a day.
A one-day Innovation Sprint delivered every academic term for three years, 20 to 50 students, researchers and staff per cohort, moving from problem to customer evidence, Lean Canvas, first experiment and pitch.
Opening keynote sessions, mentoring and venture strategy for LSE's social entrepreneurs, helping founders turn ambitious impact ideas into propositions that can scale.
An accelerator programme that brought Microsoft and Parloa in as live challenge partners, so students worked real industry problems through one coherent journey from brief to pitch.
Guest lecturer at Imperial College London, UCL, Cambridge and Kingston University. Course Director, Innovation Academy, since 2015.
Case studies
From two-day Innovation Processes courses to five-day Practitioner programmes, AI productivity for the Defence Academy, applied sprints and hackathons, and a Master Facilitator pathway so Defence can run the method itself. Every cohort works a live Defence challenge through one sequence: frame, understand, create, test, act.
Successive cohorts of employee Innovation Champions, trained in Riyadh and coached online, using customer discovery, rapid experiments and AI prototyping tools to take ideas to working demonstrations, business cases and 30-day pilot plans. Selected propositions have progressed into deployment inside the bank.
A five-day leadership immersion connecting network investment, customer value, finance and execution, delivered to Group Technology, GTCIO, MANCO and cross-functional cohorts, with team capstones presented to executives.
An executive briefing to align the C-suite, a five-day bootcamp for internal practitioners, facilitated retreats on live commercial opportunities and ongoing coaching. The lasting result was a repeatable method the client kept using after the engagement.
Full written case studies, with reference contacts, are available on request. Ask for the pack.
About
Grant started out working alongside founders, then spent a decade as a senior corporate trainer with Telecoms and Tech Academy, served as Course Director at Innovation Academy and Chairman of Business Made Simple, and co-founded Innovation Network. He has delivered across 39 countries with organisations including UK Defence, MTN Group, Saudi Awwal Bank, Google, Microsoft, Vodafone and HSBC. He lectures at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Northeastern University London, and has guest lectured at Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and Kingston.
His method is simple. Bring a live challenge. Frame it, gather the evidence, make the idea tangible, test what matters and agree the next decision. Use AI where it helps. Leave with something real, and with people who can run the process again.
Where to go next
Practitioner pathways, applied innovation sprints and Master Facilitator, for enterprise, government and defence teams that need a repeatable way to turn challenges into decisions.
Innovation NetworkThe Innovation Mini MBA. Frame the opportunity, gather the evidence, prototype, test, and leave with a credible case for action and a 90-day plan.
Innovation Mini MBAThe 90-minute AI Productivity Accelerator, the AI-Ready Workforce Mini MBA and academies that measure what changed in real work.
Acceler8AI TrainingThe Telecoms Tech Accelerator, Telecoms Mini MBA and Effective Telecoms Strategy, for operators, vendors and regulators.
Telecoms TrainingNot sure which? Discuss your challenge.
Speaking
Discuss your challenge
Who's involved, what needs to happen next, and what's in the way. I'll help you find a practical starting point, whether that's a keynote, a sprint, a programme or one of the companies.