Andrew Griffiths (author)

Andrew Griffiths is an Australian small business author and has written 11 books – 10 business books published by Allen & Unwinand one self-help book published by Simon & Schuster. His books are sold in over 50 countries and translated into Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Russian.

His first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, was published on 10 October 2000 by Allen & Unwin. He wrote a total of seven books in the 101 Ways business building series and co-authored Secrets of Marketing Experts Exposed. He is also a motivational speaker and presenter. In 2011, he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Million Dollar Round Table Conference in California and was part of Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s speaking club at the Financial Education Summit in Melbourne, also in 2011. He is also an international publishing mentor for the entrepreneurial program Key Person of Influence, which operates in the UK, US, Australia and Singapore.

In 2015, he was a presenter at the TEDx conference in Townsville, entitled "Imagine if we were 33% less angry".

Griffiths and his sister Wendy were abandoned by their parents when he was six months old and she was 18 months. They were left with their mother’s 74-year-old neighbour, who abused them before welfare officers rescued them.

Due to his unusual childhood, he does not have a birth certificate, but believes he was born in early 1966.

Griffiths lives in Cairns, Queensland.