On this episode of Link Up Leaders, Francois and Lisa will be speaking with Mike Bandar, Co-Founder of Waybook.com who loves speaking about achieving business growth and optimising operations through great systems, processes, delegation and automation.

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💥About Our Guest!💥

Mike is a co-founder of Waybook.com, the onboarding and training tool for growing teams. Waybook was born out of the startup studio Turn Partners. Mike is a founding Partner of Turn Partners focused on the acquisition, turnaround and creation of digital businesses. Mike led the turn around of a UK based niche-dating agency, achieving over a 2000% revenue growth in 18 months. Turn Partners are also behind Hopper HQ, the Instagram scheduling tool, now servicing clients in over 80 countries. Turn Partner’s also run various other projects as well as a small investment portfolio. Mike is a graduate from Aston Business School and has owned and operated businesses since the age of 15. His background is mainly within sales, marketing and start up enterprise with experience ranging from the position of Head of New Business at a global advertising agency to providing independent consultancy for clients such as PETRONAS oil, PWC & AXA. Utilising his start up and entrepreneurship experience Mike is an entrepreneurship educator and business coach. He is a lecturer of Entrepreneurship at University College London and leads on online and offline business education for various start up incubators and accelerators. Mike also runs Enterprise Academy, an entrepreneurship education company running programmes for various corporate, government and education institutions internationally including the British Council and the UK foreign office. In recent years Mike was featured on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list receiving a British Empire Medal for ‘Services to Young Entrepreneurs in the West Midlands’. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Aston University for his contribution to Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, making him one of the youngest ever recipients of a DSc. His main focus is now within Turn Partners as well as providing start up and enterprise training to individuals, institutions and corporates across the world.

Waybook.com is a powerful tool to turn your documents, processes, and know-how into effective and organized onboarding, training, and reference materials. Creating a business playbook that helps your business grow by organising your knowledge and SOPs, onboarding your team faster and keeping your business on the same page.

Learn more at https://www.waybook.com/

 

📚Resources mentioned in this episode📚

📕 The Lean Startup by Eric Ries https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898

📘 The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1NKWG4XXNALC&dchild=1&keywords=e+myth&qid=1633715762&s=books&sprefix=e+my%2Cstripbooks%2C183&sr=1-2

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