Grant Vernon is a world leading innovation strategist, facilitator, and AI productivity expert with more than a decade of experience training senior leaders, government teams, and enterprise organisations across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As the Founder and Director of Innovation Network, he has designed and delivered large scale innovation programmes for the UK Ministry of Defence, Saudi Awwal Bank, MTN Group, Oxford University, LSE, Imperial College London, and major FTSE 100 companies.

Grant began his career in the consulting and education sectors, managing complex operations before moving into innovation, agile and facilitation. This mix of practical management, design led thinking, and strategic leadership shaped his rare ability to cut through organisational noise and help teams create real results quickly. He is trained in Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Google Design Sprints, and advanced facilitation, and has developed original frameworks such as the Innovation Fast Track Process, Innovation Mini MBA, and AI for Productivity system used by thousands of professionals.

He has personally trained more than 13,000 participants, including over 1000 defence personnel through MoD accredited programmes. His training consistently earns world class ratings: 98 percent satisfaction, 95 percent confidence in applying skills, 92 percent recommendation rate, and an NPS above 90. Participants often describe his workshops as the best training they have ever attended, praising the clarity, structure, energy, and immediate usefulness of his methods.

Grant’s mission is to make high impact innovation skills accessible so organisations no longer depend on outside consultants to make progress. He teaches people to become their own consultants by using structured innovation and AI enhanced tools to solve complex problems, make confident decisions, and accelerate delivery. Students walk away with practical systems they can use immediately, gaining the ability to think more clearly, innovate more effectively, and lead meaningful change in their organisation.

He shares this expertise because he believes innovation is a learnable discipline that transforms teams, cultures, and careers. Grant’s teaching gives participants practical confidence, sharper decision making, and the mindset needed to create real and lasting impact.

Connor Wakefield is an innovation trainer and facilitator covering topics such as Innovation, Google Sprints, Agile and Design Thinking. Being involved with large companies' innovation project's have lead to understanding exactly where innovation pitfalls can lay and how to avoid them. Connor uses his innovation background to guide organizations to develop strategies and ideas to help avoid getting stuck in daily routines and project's that ultimately don't amount to anything.Drawing from his background in Tech and Games Design as well as his experience with past innovation projects, Connor leaves attendee's of Workshops and Training with a Toolkit which entails a collection of exercises and activities which are specifically designed to focus on what the real problem is and use methodologies such as lean start-up to create solutions which addresses the under-lying pain point's.

Having a background in collaborations Tools, Connor can demonstrate the best way to make this toolkit and over-arching process accessible online so that innovation can be done from anywhere. Online, Face to Face or Hybrid, there are many online tools which Connor is an expert in that can be used to deliver the process in the best way for the specific situation.

The mix of hands-on activities and proven methodologies in Connor's trainings have been widely received by delegates as a game changer in their innovation efforts.

Connor's experience extends from working with new and disruptive technology start-ups, through to seasoned leadership teams inside global institutions.