Andy Boynton, Ph.D.

Dean of Boston College's Carroll School of Management, author and co-creator of DeepDive™; methodology for helping executives harness the power of teams to improve problem-solving speed & innovati

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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.

Prior to joining Boston College, 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 (Jossey-Bass), 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 (Financial Times-Prentice Hall) and Invented Here: Maximizing Your Organization’s Internal Growth and Profitability (Harvard Business School Press).

He 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.

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

Andy is an influential speaker that is sure to motivate audiences to new levels of excellence in idea-generating and leadership. 

Presentation Topics:

Andy Boynton is an expert on a variety of topics and a leader in designing interactive workshops and seminars.

High Performance Leadership and/or Teamwork: Boynton’s focus is on leadership and teamwork within an organizational context (vs. political leadership, for example). The emphasis can be on strategic leadership from the point of view of senior executives or leading teams or project-related initiatives.

• Boynton’s sessions or workshops (he uses those words intentionally vs. “speech”) on these topics range anywhere from 90 minutes to a full day.  A speech is normally 60-90 minutes.

• Boynton’s leadership sessions are interactive and can focus on generic leadership and/or teamwork issues, or be tailored to address specific issues facing the client. He is very flexible and innovative in his design of sessions to provide real and specific client value.

• Boynton has worked with firms in a variety of industries including telecommunications, healthcare technology, publishing, and investment banking. Boynton has written a significant book on this topic (Virtuoso Teams) and has a Harvard Business Review piece.

• Boynton’s sessions go beyond mere facilitation. He brings in his own intellectual capital and other important ideas from thought leaders, if needed, to help gain the client impact.

• The sessions can range in size from 20 to over 300 individuals, if the space and choreography are planned carefully. He typically is involved with the planning to help ensure success.

Strategy Formulation and Implementation (Execution): Boynton can create workshops or planning sessions focused on the formulation and implementation of business or functional strategies and work with any level executive team.

• The sessions combine his insights and important relevant frameworks and material that will help encourage a lively and interactive session where the executive team(s) create a plan and the details for implementation.

• These sessions can be run with anywhere from three to a dozen teams depending on your needs.

• These sessions are interactive, where the expertise and insights owned by the participants is leveraged and used to shape the strategic issues and solutions.

Leading and Managing Change: Leading and managing change is essential for most organizations today trying to keep up with competitor, customer, technological, and other external changes. Boynton can customize sessions on change management-leadership for firms.

• For large audiences, Boynton can run a session ranging from 30 to 200 people, if the room and logistics allow.

• The session could be tailored to the firm or audience and glean ideas, gain insights, help identify and break barriers, or provide other momentum to change efforts.

• Lead a session of senior executives (10-20-30 or more) in planning or leading a change initiative. The length of this session could be a half day to a more extensive planning session of a day or more.

Innovation and Problem Solving – The DeepDive™: 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. 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.

• Do you have an important issue that you want your team or company to resolve?

• Do you want to have a meeting, workshop, or conference where everyone is engaged in focused, great conversations on the important issues facing your function or firm?

• Do you want to learn more about DeepDive™ as a way to take your smartest people and create an accelerator event that leverages their insights and IQ to your firm’s best advantage?

If so, learn more about DeepDive™.

“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