Scale-up Confessions

Simon Vella is a Certified EOS Implementer with 20+ years experience holding various senior leadership roles in the ICT industry.  He credits EOS with allowing him to transform his last company together with its leadership team, scaling from 24 to 50 employees and doubling financial results.

Simon will be hosting a masterclass at the EOS European Conference on 27 September in London titled "Getting your Vision Shared by All" (09:30-10:15, Break Out 2). In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Simon previews some of the big ideas to be covered in that session.

Get your ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eosworldwide/1227926 (ask your EOS Implementer for their discount code for 40% (c. £200) off or please feel free to use code "EOSI-RobL" if you don't have one). You can also connect with Simon on LinkedIn, via https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-vella/.

Sylvie Milverton is Co-founder and CEO of Lynx Educate (a learning benefit platform to help companies retain workers by differentiating their benefits offering) and Host of Talent is Everywhere Podcast. Sylvie and her team are backed by leading investors in the EdTech and Future of Work space, including Rethink, Emerge, Southern New Hampshire University and Brighteye Ventures. Her customer list includes well-known logos such as Deliveroo and Lynx Educate has been voted Top 200 European EdTech startups (Holon IQ) and Top 20 EdTech startups globally (ASU GSV).

Before co-founding Lynx Educate, Sylvie spent her career in various Finance seats, growing and operating international education companies in Latin America and Europe. So, in this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, we discuss how and why she stepped out of being an employee finance executive and into being a ‘visionary’ founder leader - and what she’s learned through her unusual entrepreneurial journey.

Interested viewers can reach Sylvie via https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylviemilverton/ and Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time with Rob, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). Alternatively, if you’d prefer Rob to send you a free copy of Traction (the book by Gino Wickman which explains The Entrepreneurial Operating System) just complete the form here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-giveaway?implementer_email=rob.liddiard@eosworldwide.com

Ryan Markewich is a business coach and a Great Game of Business certified practitioner. Having run a successful landscaping company for over 29 years, he’s passionate about teaching other owners how to create cultures of ownership, accountability, and transparency that drives performance and profits.

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Ryan shares his knowledge and skills in Open Book Management, a proven system that empowers employees to think and act like owners, and aligns them with the company's goals and vision. This is a ‘must listen’ if you want to increase your profits, have more time for yourself, and find enjoyment in the process along the way.

Interested viewers can reach Ryan via https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-markewich/ and Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time with Rob, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). You can buy a copy of the Great Game of Business via Amazon here: https://amzn.eu/d/5Lyo2xe.

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob walks listeners through the personal and business scorecards he uses to keep his life on track despite the uncertainty of the entrepreneurial journey.

Interested listeners can reach Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). Alternatively, if you'd prefer Rob to send you a free copy of Traction (the book by Gino Wickman which explains The Entrepreneurial Operating System) just complete the form here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-giveaway?implementer_email=rob.liddiard@eosworldwide.com

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob explains why so many Founder suck at financial and operational forecasting, why that's a problem and how to get better at predicting your organisation's future.

Interested listeners can reach Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). Alternatively, if you'd prefer Rob to send you a free copy of Traction (the book by Gino Wickman which explains The Entrepreneurial Operating System) just complete the form here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-giveaway?implementer_email=rob.liddiard@eosworldwide.com

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Rob explains his view that a happy entrepreneurial life rests on 3 pillars: process, practice and peace:

PROCESS - an overarching framework you're willing to believe in (how to be a good dad; what constitutes being a good husband; how to run a good company if you're a CEO; how to execute a golf swing etc :);

PRACTICE - committing to actually implement your chosen framework;

PEACE - a sincerely held belief in your inner goodness, that practice of your process will get you to where you're 'supposed to be' (and accepting that where you're supposed to be may not be where you think you want to be!);

and why lacking any one of the 3 often leads to frustration, stress or worse.

Interested listeners can reach Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). Alternatively, if you’d prefer Rob to send you a free copy of Traction (the book by Gino Wickman which explains The Entrepreneurial Operating System) just complete the form here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-giveaway?implementer_email=rob.liddiard@eosworldwide.com

Are your frontline people so busy ‘doing the work’ that you fear rolling out Level10 meetings and other EOS Foundation Tools down to their level?

Sid Jashnani (who personally led a frontline organisation in his prior entrepreneurial journey) makes a compelling case that, contrary to some Leadership Teams’ fears, rolling out EOS actually saves frontline people time and their organisations from process breakdowns.

Sid will be hosting a masterclass at the EOS European Conference on 27 September in London titled "80% of the challenge is rolling out the EOS Foundation Tools" (14:00-14:45, Break Out 1).

Get your ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eosworldwide/1227926 (ask your EOS Implementer for their discount code for 40% (c. £200) off or please feel free to use code "EOSI-RobL" if you don't have one)

Jonny White is the Founder of Ticket Tailor, a bootstrapped SaaS ticketing platform which helps event organisers sell 1 million tickets per month.

In this episode of the First-time Founders Podcast, Jonny explains how he managed to build TicketTailor to scale without a cofounder or any outside capital (Jonny attributes his success - for those of us who define success as building a profitable company that operates with purpose - preserving optionality, keeping things simple and taking actions today with a clear vision for tomorrow in mind).

Interested viewers can reach Jonny via https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnywhite1/ and Rob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertliddiard/) at [email protected] (or to book some free time with Rob, visit https://www.eosworldwide.com/rob-liddiard). Alternatively, if you’d prefer Rob to send you a free copy of Traction (the book by Gino Wickman which explains The Entrepreneurial Operating System) just complete the form here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-giveaway?implementer_email=rob.liddiard@eosworldwide.com

Can the Leader of an entrepreneurial company ever 'outgrow' being accountable for People & Culture? And if you do need a 'People Person', what’s the difference between an HR Manager, a Leader of People and Culture and a Business Leader (and which of these does a growing company need, when)? Are your people ready to fulfil your growth aspirations?

Alice Jordan is well-placed to answer these and all your People and Growth Agenda questions, having spent the first 20 years of her career in senior people roles in big companies and having since led more than 300 sessions as an EOS Implementer, helping entrepreneurial leadership teams build really strong, heart felt cultures to drive growth and productivity.

Alice will be hosting a masterclass at the EOS European Conference on 27 September in London titled “Preparing Your People Agenda for Growth” (13:10-13:55, in the Main Space).

Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/erpXCMcK (ask your EOS Implementer for their discount code for 40% (c. £200) off or please feel free to use code "EOSI-RobL" if you don't have one)

If you're into EOS, be sure to print a copy of your Accountability Chart and take it to Dean Breyley's "The Devil is in the Accountability Chart" masterclass at the We Run on EOS European Conference on 27 September (11:40-12:25 in the Main Space).

Dean has facilitated over 600 full day EOS Leadership Team sessions and will draw on his full experience to help you sense check - ie with interactive examples - how many of your company's issues trace back to structure (it could be as many as 80%).

Get your ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eosworldwide/1227926 (ask your EOS Implementer for their discount code for 40% (c. £200) off or please feel free to use code "EOSI-RobL" if you don't have one)