This week’s key takeaway:

Innovation leads to success with Gary Wilcox

 

Episode intro:  

What a brilliant character Gary Wilcox is! It’s no wonder he won the 2021 Paint & Panel award for innovation… this guy is seriously inspiring.

 

Nowadays Gary is the man behind Monit: a health and safety app with over 10,000 workers under its jurisdiction, including hundreds of body shops. Starting out as a panel beater, Gary ended up owning seven body shops and achieved legendary status for his work, winning multiple awards and even having dinner with Prince Charles!

 

Gary tells us the incredible story of how he formed Monit after being down and out, as well as what a good body shop should be doing to track their compliance. We could have talked to Gary for hours - this one is absolute gold.

 

In this week’s episode you will learn:

-What inspired Gary to innovate with Monit

-How he became the most decorated tradesman in Australia

-Gary’s health and safety blueprint

-How to remove the onus on trust and honesty in compliance

-How ‘adversity is the seed to greater opportunity’

-Why business coaching is so important to help you look ahead like Gary did

-What the most successful body shops do best

-The importance of an employee’s intellectual property value

-How retention rate relates to health and safety

-The power of systems over people

 

Show links:

** Find Gary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-willcox-415862124/?originalSubdomain=au

** Monit’s website: https://monit.live/

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