In The Media
Interviews & Articles
Tirian’s programs and team have featured in a number of different media, including the following:
Balanced lifestyle
Asian Wall Street Journal: 'A Wealth of Happiness'
A 3 week special series looking at happiness research throughout the world. The final week features Andrew & Gaia Grant's lifestyle change that carefully balances a successful work and family relationship, and how they are now able to help other executives manage this balance.
XL Magazine: Global Speakers Summit
Speaking and training opportunities in Asia ...
As professional speakers Andrew & Gaia Grant moved to Bali, but this was not the end of their success as speakers and facilitators but rather the beginning ...
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Creativity
Asian Wall Street Journal: Wanted A Breath of Fresh Air (How to Morph Into a More Creative Manager )
"Creativity is like air, hard to see and difficult to find but if companies don't get enough of it they will die. Andrew Grant (Managing Director of Tirian) says that creativity should be at the core of everything from team building to brainstorming ..."
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Future Edge Interview: Corporate Creativity
"There is nothing more exciting than to design a program (leadership, team or personal improvement) and then see how it can change people’s lives..."
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Team Building, Leadership & Development
Sarmady sponsors Leadership BootCamp
Leadership BootCamp a unique two-day workshop that helped executives develop and articulate their own personal leadership philosophy statements attended by about 4,000 executives and managers. One of the many exciting topics shared during the conference, was discussing "connecting brand through story" by Mr. Andrew Grant where he mentioned "what sells is not always the simple product itself - it is more often the image or the story built around it".
Heads together Andrew Grant interview by Joshua Tan of Mix Magazine
What are the things to look out for when planning a teambuilding programme? How do companies ensure they get the most out of their teambuilding activities? These were some questions answered by Andrew Grant, the managing director of Tirian
Incentive & Meetings Asia Lateral Golf, A culture mix
“Lessons they learn in the way we present golf can be taken back and applied in an office context, while we challenge them that the wisdom they learn as managers, should be applied to win the golf games...” More on Lateral Golf >
Incentive & Meetings Asia Team Building Bonding Rituals
Looking for strong returns. "Discerning clients are starting to distinguish between team activities and team development and want much more than childish games. Clients are looking for clearly defined outcomes..."
Corporate Playgrounds
From company cricket tournaments to desert survival courses, teambuilding is big business, and the Middle East is emerging both as a developing market in this sector as well as a venue for challenging and different programmes. Kathi Everden reports.
Human Resources Exotic Adventures
Tirian's cultural adventures encourage participants to learn about themselves through eyes of others...
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Successful Team Building Secrets
FAQ transcript from media interview with Michael Bode CEI Asia Pacific
Crisis and reputation management
Australian Financial Review Coping in a Culture of Perpetual Crisis
An Australian company is helping businesses in Asia learn how to deal with a crisis. As Bill Pheasant discovers, it’s now being put to the test.
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HR Monthly Australia: Are You Secure? (Cover Story)
"Tirian: Surviving Bali: For organizational development company Tirian, the Bali bombings were just one more crisis ..." More on Crisis Management >
Crisis on, chicken off the menu
Gary La Moshi from Asia Times Online interviews Andrew Grant, MD of Tirian and designer of Catch Me if you Dare, to look at how organizations can prepare themselves to avoid costly mistakes. “As usual, the costs of government failure to deal with looming crises until it is too late will be eaten by ordinary people, who will also be force-fed a diet of doubletalk. Indonesia is not alone in failing to learn the lessons of SARS, or to see the warning signs, but its reaction to the bird flu outbreak is tragic nonetheless…”.
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The Bulletin / Newsweek "The Damage Done: Who's to Blame for the Corby Fiasco and how it's hurting Australia"
Andrew Grant and other expats interview by Fortune Magazines journalist Eric Ellis for the Bulletin as an Australian living in Bali -on international relations. "The Bali expats and intelligentsia are disgusted by Australia’s racist reaction. The other 230 million Indonesians ask, “Schapelle who?”..." (06/05)
ABC Radio Bali's economy struggling
For most of the past 10 years Gaia Grant's home has been beachfront Jimbaran, just 20 metres from the where bombs ripped through a seafood restaurant two weeks ago.
Personal Tirian team interviews
Asian Wall Street Journal 3 hours in Bali with Gaia Grant
INTERVIEWS with Gaia Grant,
Author of a "A Patch of Paradise" about living and working in Bali during turbulent times (2002)
- Malaysian Sun
- Adelaide Herald
- The Australian
- Garuda Inflight Magazine
- Qantas Inflight Radio
- Good Morning Australia TV
- Radio Stations Australia and Singapore
PRESS RELEASE
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INTERVIEW with Anita Billings
Setback propels Executive along dynamic career path. (South China Morning Post- feature article 2005)
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