Engineering Success

Every entrepreneur starts their business full of dreams, whether it's innovating a better product or service, creating wealth, building a life to be proud of, or changing the world in some way, and engineers are no different.

This podcast is about keeping your dreams alive when things get tough, because even the strongest technical skills can get overwhelmed by the endless demands of building a business. And one day you'll realise that even the best product or service just isn't enough to guarantee your success.

"Engineering Success" will feature engineering and industrial leaders discussing their journeys to long-term success candidly. The challenges encountered, the lessons learned, and the solutions put in place.

Whether you're an engineering consultancy, an industrial service provider, or a manufacturer, you'll hear actionable insights from peers on how they establish strong company cultures. Systematised operations leveraged sales and marketing to generate customers consistently. Overcame financial challenges, faced increasing competition and adapted to change to manage growth.

My name is Rick Merten, and I've been running my own business for over two decades. In that time, I've partnered with hundreds of SMEs to help them achieve sustainable success. My ambition with this podcast is to let entrepreneurial engineers know you're not alone, and to share real-world insights that will help you engineer your success and build a better business.

Noel Scully has more than two decades of experience helping business achieve their objectives faster than with their existing resources. In fact, the work that nem Australasia does has been so good that they have helped businesses be prepared for a sale. Building strong relationships with his partners and clients and leveraging on referrals is a proven approach to a businesses' resiliency and sustainable success. Seeing his clients achieve their goals is a privilege for Noel.

In this episode, Damian Scodella shares how he built his financial management and bookkeeping business, Square Penny. How he started from a one-man data cleansing project, to adding more staff, to recognizing how he could help businesses 'clean up' their accounting and numbers game. His story is one of growth and evolution. Believing in processes and consistency, continually learning, not just himself, but the business and his people as well. Allowing people to make decisions to grow and evolve.

Neville Samuels describes his journey that led to developing a successful business based on a vision to connect people - connecting businesses with the right skills and talent. From working as an accountant to starting a business that failed, but then having the tenacity to build a new one despite the odds. He discusses the difficulties, the lessons learned, and how he ‘lucked out’ by seizing opportunities he saw at the right time, with the right conditions.