ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Peter Cowley, a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and inspiring speaker. We talked about a range of topics including, why you need to stop sweating the small stuff, what investors need in a successful CEO, why entrepreneurs need to understand finance to be successful, what this expert looks for when investing in business, the warning signs when an entrepreneur needs to take advice, why entrepreneurs need to adjust the expectations of themselves, how entrepreneurs can get financed to fuel their growth, how to build investor relationships for success, how to motivate your sales team for growth, why you need to let go of people and business, the key to successful investments in business, why you need to live life to the full and so much more…

About Peter

Joining us on the podcast today is Peter Cowley, a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and inspiring speaker based in Cambridge, UK. Born in 1955, Peter has a rich history of innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning over four decades. A Cambridge University alumnus, he has founded and run numerous businesses in technology and property sectors. He has personally invested in 76 startups, is the Investment Director of Martlet Capital, and his outstanding contributions to the angel investing community were recognised when he was named UK Business Angel of the Year 2014/15. As a former President of the European Business Angel Network and a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School, Peter brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our discussion.

Contact Peter:

Website: www.petercowley.org

The Invested Investor: https://www.petercowley.org/tii

Project Cancer: https://www.youtube.com/@project-cancer/videos

Podcast: The Invested Investor (available on all major podcasting platforms)

Public Success, Private Grief: http://www.publicsuccess-privategrief.com/

Buy the book: The Invested Investor: The new rules for start-ups, scale-ups and angel investing

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Adam Coffey, CEO, Board Member, CEO Coach, #1 Best Selling Author (x3), Global Educator, Top 1% Speaker & US Army Veteran. We talked about a range of topics including, the top three rules you need to know for success in business, the different types of private equity firms you need to know, why you need to know the 30, 20, 10 rule, things you need to know when choosing a private equity partner, how to increase your profits for success, why you need to know how money works, why businesses do not need to fear private equity, how to plan for success when working with private equity, how to build a successful business, the power of private equity creating successful businesses, the truth about fired CEOs that you need to know, what you need to know about partnering with private equity, why success in business leads to self-limiting beliefs, how to maximise private equity partnerships for wealth creation and so much more…

About Adam

Joining us today is Adam Coffey, a veteran in CEO advisory and leadership. Adam's background is impressive, spanning from his early days in the U.S. Army to leading roles at GE and his significant impact in the private equity world.

Adam started his career journey with just $150 and a strong military discipline. He carried these leadership skills over to the business sector, becoming the president and CEO of three major private-equity-backed service companies, achieving 58 acquisitions and numerous successful business exits.

He's also a bestselling author, with books like 'The Private Equity Playbook' and 'The Exit Strategy Playbook' that serve as essential guides for anyone in the business sphere. Beyond writing, Adam dedicates time to teaching executive MBA students at UCLA Anderson, sharing his knowledge with future business leaders.

Contact Adam:

Website: https://adamecoffey.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamecoffey/

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Evan Ryan, Founder and CEO of Teammate AI and Co-Founder of Lede AI. We had a fascinating conversation about a range of topics including, What you need to know about AI and lead generation, the tool you need to use today to automate tasks, what you need to know about marketing and AI, where your AI journey need to start to free up employees, why you must never use AI for great customer relationships, why you need to use AI with caution in marketing, how to make a billion dollars, you won't believe what ChatGPT can do now, the surprising dream team you didn't know you needed and so much more…

About Evan

In today's episode of ScaleX™ Insider, I am speaking with Evan Ryan is founder of Teammate AI which is on mission to automate 10 million human-hours by 2030, enabling people to focus more on work that is uniquely human.

Evan is also the co-founder of Lede AI, a company which uses AI to automatically write, edit, and publish newspaper articles all without human intervention. Over the last 5 years 700,000 published articles and a prestigious LION Publishers Technology Innovation of the Year Award to its credit.

Evan is also the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling book AI as your Teammate: Electrify Growth without Increasing Payroll.

While growing his companies, Evan is a full-time traveller and digital nomad whose favourite places to live (so far) have been Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyon, France, Valencia, Spain, Mexico City, and the Thai islands.

Contact Evan:

Website: https://teammateai.com/

Blog: https://teammateai.com/blog/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-ryan-866479ba/

Buy Evan's book:

AI as Your Teammate: Electrify Growth without Increasing Payroll

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Daniel Priestley, Founder of Dent Global & ScoreApp, author of 6x business books and founder of multiple 7 & 8 figure ventures. We talked about a range of topics including, how to get people lining up to do business with you, the 7 Step lead generation process for business growth, 4 tips to build successful marketing campaign, what you need to do to create a scalable business, you need to do this to command the highest price, why you need to pitch for success every time, why you need lead generation to be successful, the importance of putting your personal brand first, why you need to be running marketing campaigns for success, how to move your mindset from frugal to prosperity and expand your ability to attract luck, why you need to focus on personal branding, successful campaign strategies you need to drive success and so much more…

About Daniel

Today, we have a distinguished guest, Daniel Priestley. With a remarkable track record, Daniel is an accomplished author of four best-selling entrepreneurship books and the co-founder of Dent Global, a prominent business accelerator. He's a serial entrepreneur who's successfully established businesses across Australia, Singapore, and the UK. Daniel's expertise and impact extend globally, as Dent Global operates offices in London, Sydney, Singapore, and Tampa, endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management. With over 500 entrepreneurs and leaders participating annually, mentored by high-net-worth individuals, Daniel is a true influencer in the business world. His books, including "Key Person of Influence," "Entrepreneur Revolution," "Oversubscribed," and "24 Assets," have left an indelible mark. Recognized as one of the Top 10 Business Advisors in the UK by Enterprise Nation and a top 25 entrepreneur in London in the Smith & Williamson Power 100 Awards, we're excited to gain insights from Daniel's wealth of knowledge and experience.

Contact Daniel:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/

Website https://danielpriestley.com/

The book: Oversubscribed: How To Get People Lining Up To Do Business With You

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Cynthia Dearin, international business strategist. We talked about a range of topics including, why you need to build personal relationships need to do first balanced mindset why you need to explore spam beyond your backyard what you need to do before you expand globally how to build a global team of excellence the blueprint you need to know for international success why you need research and empathy and international business and so much more…

About Cynthia

Cynthia is an international business strategist empowering leaders to scale globally and make a global impact. She's a former diplomat, management consultant, and CEO of the Australia-Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry. In 2013, she founded Dearin & Associates, assisting prominent organizations and smaller companies in creating international strategies for global success. She's on a mission to help businesses amplify their impact worldwide.

Contact Cynthia:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiadearin/?originalSubdomain=au

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynthia.dearin.global

Twitter: @cynthiadearin

Email: [email protected]

The Book: Business Beyond Borders: Take Your Company Global

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Jamil Qureshi, TEDx Speaker, Performance Coach, Entrepreneur, Author. We talked about a range of topics including, why you need to know that success is a choice, the one thing you shouldn't be motivated by, why you don't need experts to solve your challenges, the questions you need to ask to challenge your belief system, why you need to know the difference between purpose and vision, the one word you need to avoid as a leader, questions you need to ask your team for innovative thinking, why you need to be curious to succeed, what you need to do to maintain high performance, why you need gamification to think big, why we need healthy debate to make sense of the world and why you should test assumptions to achieve greatness and why you need to say yes more than no and so much more…

About Jamil

Jamil Qureshi is a leading expert in performance psychology, known for working with top athletes and businesses worldwide. He has helped six individuals reach World Number 1 in their fields, including 22 golfers in the top 50 and 2 world number one golfers. Jamil has also collaborated with English Premiership football clubs, Formula 1 drivers, and the 2009 England Ashes-winning cricketers. In the business world, he has worked with companies like Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Serco, Marks and Spencer, and Royal Bank of Scotland, focusing on leadership and change management. Jamil is a renowned speaker on various aspects of performance psychology, leadership, cultural change, and team performance.

Contact Jamil:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-qureshi-494661a/

Buy Jamil's Book

The Mind Coach: Be the person you really want to be

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

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In today's episode I'm delighted to re-introduce my business partner Claire Colvin. Claire and I recap our favourite moments from Season 10 and discuss why you need to manage your expectations to find happiness, the one reason employees would jeopardise a salary increase, why you need to show gratitude for the people in your life, why only human leadership will win the hearts and minds of people, why you need to bring healing to the world by putting people first, why you need to stop using military words in business and the importance of experimentation in business for success, why you need to show vulnerability, what you need to look out for when investing in a business and so much more...

About Claire

Claire has worked as a partner to business leaders and entrepreneurs of high growth businesses helping them to scale through their people. As the former Talent Director on the Board of a rapidly growing global organisation, Claire built the optimum people centred structures and systems to enable the company to significantly scale across six continents.

In 2019, Claire became my business partner and we set out on a journey of discovery to extensively research exemplars of scaling to identify the key attributes that made them successful.

Contact Claire

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-colvin-586a162b/

Simple Scaling Book

Check out our book, an Amazon Best-Seller: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10X Your Business

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan, Simple Scaling and Access Our Resources:

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In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor, Author, BBC Dragon, and the host of one of Europe's biggest podcasts, 'The Diary of a CEO'. We had a fascinating conversation about a range of topics including, how Sir Alex Ferguson led a successful culture and football team, how to lead a much happier life, 3 tips for marketing to give value for strangers, how to get people to pause on your post on social media, how to make your health your priority, the three things you need to look out for when investing in an entrepreneur, the impact of subjective stress and the power of community, why you need to purpose to make your people feel excited about your business, why you need small gains for unlimited success, why you need to focus on the who not the how to be successful, why you need to give value to strangers to build your social following, why you need to frame your stress differently, why you need to manage expectation to be happy, why you need to think bigger than yourself to be successful, why you need to experiment in business to be successful, why you need to know how about the power of self story and so much more…

About Steven

This guest needs no introduction. At only 31 years old Steven has already achieved a lifetime of success. His Diary of a CEO is the UK's #1 podcast. A formidable entrepreneur, an accomplished investor in some of the most disruptive global brands, a Sunday Times Bestselling author and founder of thirdweb, Flight Story and Flight Fund (his own private equity fund). In 2022, he joined as the youngest ever investor on the BBC's hit show Dragons' Den.

Steven has received a host of awards most notably listed on the Powerlist, which captures the most influential Black Britons and aims to celebrate the achievements of the most influential people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage in the UK.

Contact Steven:

Website: www.stevenbartlett.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbartlett-123/

Buy Steven's books:

The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Philip McKernan, Inspirational Speaker, Writer & Filmmaker. We talked about a range of topics including, why you need to be ready for providing self-reflection, Phillip's obsession with the truth that people carry every day, the gifts that make you unique, why you need the greatest courage to question your own life, why the most powerful story in the world is our own, why new generation business leaders struggle in family businesses, why you need to address your childhood traumas, why you need to work on your personal story, the reason you need to know the gap in the relationship with yourself, the power of an authentic story on people, why you need to get in touch with the truth by you and pursue uncovering your souls work, the one thing every business leader needs to do, why you need to stop comparing yourself to others today, why you need to start couples therapy today, and so much more…

About Philip

Philip McKernan is a philosopher of the human experience, inspiring entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide. As a sought-after speaker, he has motivated the Canadian Olympic Team and The Pentagon, among others. Philip's originality sets him apart, bringing fresh conversations and challenging the status quo. With a passion for SoulSet™ philosophy, he empowers people to uncover their gifts and impact the world. Beyond his extraordinary insights, Philip's adventures include caddying for the President of Ireland and building an orphanage in Peru. His documentary film, Give & Grow, explores the profound impact of giving on our well-being and businesses.

Today, in the ScaleX™ Insider podcast, we have the privilege of delving into two of his profound books, "One Last Talk" and "Dead Man Walking, Join us for a captivating conversation with Philip. His unique insights will reshape your perspective on marketing, business, and the limitless potential of the future

Contact Philip McKernan:

Website: https://philipmckernan.com/

Buy the Book: Dead Man Walking A Journey from Mindset to Soulset

Buy the book: One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling

In this episode, I had a fascinating conversation with Bob Chapman, CEO and Chairman at Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. We talked about a range of topics including, why you need to know that in business everybody matters, how to boost trust and loyalty from employees, what you need to look for when acquiring businesses, why you should never rely on this business model to be successful, the one thing you need to know to be a great leader, 3 Success tips for business and life, the one job you need to do as a leader, the one playbook you need to know for acquisitions, the guiding principles of leadership, the one skill every leader needs to learn today, how to make everyone feel that they matter, why a great business model will drive you through any storm, why you need to consistently grow your business, why your business needs purpose to be successful, the culture every business leader needs to create now, why you need to treat employees like they're family and so much more…

Intro to Bob

1. Bob Chapman
2. Truly Human Leadership
3. Barry-Wehmiller success story
4. Everybody Matters
5. Leadership skills
6. Business strategy
7. Employee trust and loyalty
8. Business acquisitions
9. Corporate leadership
10. Business growth tips
11. Success principles
12. Leadership guide
13. Culture in business
14. Employee-centric businesses
15. Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities
16. Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute
17. Leadership advice
18. Business model success
19. Corporate purpose
20. Business leadership
21. Humanistic Leadership Academy
22. UN Global Compact
23. ScaleX Insider
24. Brendan McGurgan
25. Simple Scaling principles
26. Business scalability
27. Entrepreneurship
28. Management strategies
29. Community building
30. CEO insights

On this ScaleX™ Insider episode, we dive into the story of Bob Chapman, globally recognized as a top CEO for his revolutionary approach to leadership. As Barry-Wehmiller's CEO, Bob transformed a faltering business into a $3.3B success, focusing on a people-centric strategy he calls Truly Human Leadership. This ethos is encapsulated in his WSJ bestseller, "Everybody Matters." Beyond his corporate achievements, Bob contributes to building a better world through the Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities and the Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute. His advocacy for integrating business excellence with genuine people care has resonated from the UN Global Compact to the Humanistic Leadership Academy at Fordham University.

Contact Bob Chapman:

YouTube: The Privilege of Leadership

Check out other resources from YouTube from Bob Chapman

Contact: The Chapman Leadership Institute:

Buy the book: Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

About the Host, Brendan McGurgan

Brendan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible.

Contact Brendan McGurgan or Simple Scaling:

Buy the Simple Scaling Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

Contact Simple Scaling:

https://linktr.ee/simplescaling