Jan 13 2025
Dean of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, Author, and Co-Creator of DeepDive™ Andy Boynton is one of the foremost experts on executive leadership, organizational change, and business performance.
Along with his impressive career in academia, Andy Boyton has also been an impactful keynote speaker for over 20 years. Andy Boynton is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Andy Boynton’s fees.
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After graduating from Boston College in 1978 Andy Boynton earned his MBA and Ph.D. at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He then served on the MBA faculty at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Andy was also 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 the program director for one of the world’s top ten Executive MBA programs, as recognized by Business Week.
Today, Andy Boynton is Dean of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, one of the world’s leading graduate business school programs. In addition to authoring several books, he is 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.
Additionally, Andy Boyton is a well-known business author. His latest research investigated how distinguished experts from various fields cultivate their successful ideas. His latest book, The Idea Hunter, 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 and Invented Here.
On top of his publishing career and role as Dean of the Carroll School of Management, Andy also has over 20 years of experience as a keynote speaker. He is often utilized by organizations looking to build more innovative and effective teams. In fact, his articles in this area have appeared in elite management journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and the California Management Review.
However, the breadth of his speaking topics don’t stop there. He also offers customized executive experiences that address strategy, organizational change, leadership, teamwork, and professional career enhancement. Regardless of the topic, hire Andy Boynton if your organization is looking to improve its performance.
Find out how to hire Andy Boynton to appear at your next event. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group to inquire about Andy Boynton’s availability and cost. When booking Andy Boynton for an event, we need to know the type of venue and location the event will take place. Andy Boynton is a popular choice for corporate events, private events, and virtual events. So, you can click the Check Availability button or contact us and an MPG Andy Boynton booking agent will get back to you within 48 hours.
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For all appearances, Andy speech’s is customized and integrated with video case studies, participation by attendees, and tangible takeaway tools that can be implemented immediately.
Each presentation is specifically tailored to the needs of the audience and can focus on such areas as: Teamwork, Innovation, Individual Creativity, Leadership, Change Management, Strategy, or other management issues central to your organization’s success. To discuss the specific talking points you’d like Andy to touch on, schedule a pre-conference call today.
DeepDive™ ignites any workshop or conference meeting into a dynamic, high-energy, very interactive problem-solving or opportunity-shaping event. In three hours to one day, the DeepDive™ leverages your talents, brainpower, and experience to create tangible solutions to a wide variety of business issues such as planning change, creating a vision, formulating a strategy, redesigning a process, or launching new services. Andrew Boynton helped co-create DeepDive™ which has been used hundreds of times with firms around the world to ensure the most successful workshops, meetings, or conferences possible.
In today’s information-based economy, ideas are an extraordinarily valuable asset, fueling professional growth and driving your organization’s success. What can you do to help your organization become a magnet for great ideas? How can you leverage “The Hunt” for great ideas as a source of competitive advantage? Professor Andy Boynton has spent a career working with executives around the world to answer these very questions.
Based on his recent groundbreaking book, The Idea Hunter, Andy shares the essential skills and tools of idea hunting in his highly interactive executive education program.
Andy demonstrates how ideas drive progress for individual leaders, high-performance teams, or winning organizations. He shares stories of great idea hunters from Henry Ford to Pablo Picasso and from Thomas Edison to Warren Buffett. Most importantly, he highlights four steps to become an effective IDEA HUNTER:
Learn How to Manage Current Performance and Find Future Growth
It happens to all successful businesses – the priorities of running the business often create barriers to growth. If your business faces this challenge, this speech has solutions for you.
Research shows that managers of growing businesses eventually face the same challenge: How to be innovative and launch new streams of revenue growth while successfully managing the existing business. This struggle has been called the “Paradox of Success” and requires “catalyst” actions to move forward. The Catalyst speech focuses on how managers can break through growth barriers and remove the tradeoffs between current performance and future growth.
In this speech, Andy Boynton demonstrates how barriers to new growth pile up over time and identifies methods to unleash this clogged new growth.
Customized to the needs of the audience, the Catalyst speech will provide a short burst of management prescription aimed at topics essential to unleashing growth in many organizations:
Andy Boynton’s focus is on leadership and teamwork within an organizational context. His keynotes can emphasize strategic leadership from the point of view of senior executives, team leaders, or project-related initiatives.
Andy Boynton will create workshops or planning sessions focused on the formulation and implementation of business or functional strategies that work with any level of executive team.
Leading and managing change is essential for most organizations today trying to keep up with competitor, customer, technological, and other external changes. Andy Boynton can customize sessions on change management leadership for firms.
Andy drew upon his deep knowledge, innate energy, and fascinating video clips to bring the room to life and leave valuable takeaways for all. In a separate session, Andy ran a dynamic workshop for 50 professionals on strategy and leadership. Andy provided a very interactive and engaging session that left participants asking for more. Andy Boynton is one of our go to speakers and workshop catalysts for very good reasons. – Executive Director, Center for Corporate Citizenship
The room was filled with employees ranging in experience from recent college graduates through to senior vice presidents across seven different functions, but that made the workshop and idea generation all the better. My employees left feeling invigorated and ready to find “right ideas.” – Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Andy spent a great deal of time with me in advance of the conference to learn about my firm, our leadership team, and what we were looking to accomplish through his session. He was also scheduled as the grand finale on Saturday morning at 8:00 am after four days of the conference!
And I can honestly say Andy exceeded our expectations. He prepared and delivered an outstanding session with specifically relevant case studies and concepts that aligned perfectly with our group. Additionally, his engaging style, energy and delivery were superb. I highly recommend Andy and sincerely hope to work with him again in the future. – Vice President of Field Development, VALIC
Great interaction, engagement, and connection with the CEOs and senior executives in the audience. Brought his insights and the case to life. Andy’s session was a high energy jump start to our conference. – President & CEO, Window & Door Manufacturers Association
