The Idea Hunter

The Idea Hunter - Creating Better Futures

about the idea hunter

I help teams with all aspects of ideas. Creative thinking training to produce ideas and/or presentation skills coaching to persuade your audience. Pitch Consultant. Finally, software provision for an organisation's innovation process management.

Passions: Ideas – from conception to adoption. Intellectual curiosity. Problem solving. Decision making. Questions – the key to effective thinking. What if? Why not? What else? Better questions. Our minds. Words. Numbers. TED. Aphorisms. The Domino project. Creating better futures.

You can find the grown-up stuff via the LinkedIn button!

My Clients

creative thinking

Everything starts with an idea. Ideas separate you from your competition because the best ideas win. You need better ideas, more often.

Make your thinking visual. Two existing elements combined to create something new. How can you think without posing questions? Ask better questions. Be primed. Where do you have your ideas? Bed, bus and bathroom. Best time to have an idea is when you don't need one. (David Trott)

We normally think by recognising and repeating patterns. To create something new you have to establish a new pattern. Disrupting patterned thinking requires a stimulus. A spark that will start your thinking from a different place.

Testimonials

My sales team spent two days with him over two sessions; yes we learnt how to think about a challenge differently, but whichever weird and wacky place his techniques took us, we were always brought back to the brief and the 'real world' making the sessions hugely productive, valuable and ultimately accountable.

Lee Cutter, National Sales Director at EYE

Greavsie is an inspirational presenter and a real creative influence. His idea generation techniques enabled us to see things from a completely different point of view and were a great help for our team and client brainstorms. Just what we needed to give us the edge!

Gill Garside, M.D. of DSA PR

We brought in The Idea Hunter to add to our creative thinking skills and were introduced to the range of simple techniques we use for coming up with ideas. These techniques have been extremely useful in delivering fresh thinking for both new and existing clients

Charlie Coney, Creative Director, GolinHarris

Andrew has the knack of making his training fun whilst making sure that people learn an incredible amount about the subject. People not only enjoy the sessions but their ability and confidence benefits enormously from his commitment to their personal growth.

Jeremy Tester, Marketing Director, SkyMedia

presentation skills

Budgets follow the best ideas. An idea's worth is often judged by how well it is presented.

But why are you presenting? You're trying to persuade an audience to do what you want them to. Simple. The first stage is to change their mind. That's what your presentation must achieve.

The software is not important. You are the key presentation tool. The presentation must be all about your audience. Who are they and what do they want? Your presentation should be constructed by considering the presentation triangle of content, design and delivery. This enables you to take control. Confidence comes from knowing how to be in control. You can (& should) enjoy presenting.

Testimonials

Andrew (aka Greavsie) provides a totally new insight to presenting and delivering messages to clients in a clear, consistent and concise manner. Great to work with, and clear on deliverables and objectives from the start, he helped to shape our team into a cohesive unit and took a detailed and complex piece bid to clear and compelling pitch.

Emma Boulby, Airlines Account Director, G4S

Greavsie's presentation programme was invaluable. Objective and constructive criticism on the best practices for presenting is always useful. When there is room for improvement, the Idea Hunter programme helps you find it! Consultative and especially with 1:1 training and feedback I would highly recommend Andrew's services to someone of any level.

Olivia Ealand, Industry Manager at Google

I thoroughly enjoyed Andrew's presentation skills training. It was by far the best training I've ever had. Yes, it did take me out of my comfort zone, but after only a few weeks I can see that my confidence and presentation design and delivery have become a lot better.. and I mean it.

Artur Jach, SEO Manager, Media Contacts

innovation

Ideas are not solutions – they are the raw material of your solutions. Ideas are actually the easy part. Moving them from something in your head to a real-life implementation is hard.

Ideas, Insight, Incubation, Imagination, Ivaluation (I know, I know!), Implementation & Innovation. Clearly, the I's have it.

You need other people to get involved. You need an innovation process. You need Innovation Process Management. Jenni software provides you with the means to pose specifically framed challenges, invite chosen participants, gather ideas and then evaluate them. Make your innovation as open as you need! Vitally, you get to align your innovation efforts with your strategy.

Testimonials

I invited The Idea Hunter in to help my FTSE 100 client on a couple of occasions. He introduced them to a range of new techniques and was able to help them come up with an extensive list of new ideas for further development. Client was delighted with his contribution.

Cyrus Johnston, Managing Director, Hands on Brands

The Idea Hunter (Greavsie) has run or facilitated many idea sessions at Sky Media and his creative thinking expertise has enabled our teams to generate those all important and hard to find original ideas.

As a result, we've attracted incremental revenue from clients and indeed launched completely new revenue streams.

Graham Appleby, Commercial Director, SkyMedia

Andrew Greaves has coached several of our idea management software clients through the innovation process with excellent results every time. He combines an in-depth knowledge of the creative and innovation processes together with a relaxed and friendly approach that puts people at ease. As a result, he gets results.

Jeffrey Baumgartner, Founder of jpb.com

contact me

Let's talk. Get in touch and we can hopefully meet up for an initial chat. I'm offering you a service. I'm the person you'll be spending time with. You want to know what you can expect from me in the future. Let's see if we both look forward to the prospect of working together.

Together we can make sure that you excel at doing the kind of things that software cannot. You want to make yourself irreplaceable.

I'm based in London but am always keen to go to new places and do new things.

So remember, it's good to talk. What's the worst that could happen?