Brendan McGurgan

ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

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My name is Brendan McGurgan and I am immersed in the world of scaleup businesses. In 2020, myself and business partner Claire Colvin co-founded Simple Scaling with the sole purpose of inspiring and enabling millions of ambitious leaders to scale with purpose. Over the past two years we have researched and examined our success and the success of those who have 'been there and done it' to create the 10 Principles of Scaling which is enshrined in our ScaleX™ Framework. As an extension of this we have created the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast. Every week I will be having fascinating conversations with a...

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Brendan McGurgan

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Business

Podcast website

simplescaling.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Larry Yatch – How to become a high-performance business leader and execute with extreme levels of accountability when scaling a business 31.08.2022

Larry Yatch, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a ten-year veteran serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy SEALs, has led and served in extreme environments around the globe. He is a father to two young boys, speaker, coach, and a successful business owner. As an entrepreneur in leadership development, team performance and tactical planning, he applies lessons from these experienc...

[REPLAY - from the archive] Cameron Herold - How to create a vision statement that aligns your business around a shared future 24.08.2022

Today, I am revisiting my conversation with Cameron Herold. Known by Many Leaders as "The Business Growth Guru" Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. He's the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and he's touched thousands of businesses indirectly through his work. At age 21, he had 14 employees. By 35, he'd helped build his first two...

Brendan McGurgan and Claire Colvin – Recapping on our favourite moments from Season Five 10.08.2022

In today's episode I'm delighted to re-introduce Claire Colvin. 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 acro...

Sharon Lechter – The 6Ps to scaling your business and exiting profitably 03.08.2022

Joining me today is Sharon Lechter. She is an entrepreneur, international speaker, best-selling author, mentor, philanthropist, licensed CPA for 35 years and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Sharon is the premier expert for financial literacy and entrepreneurial success. Sharon co-authored the international bestseller  Rich Dad Poor Dad and has released 14 other books in the Rich Dad seri...

Oren Klaff – The secret to achieving any outcome you want when pitching to scale your business 27.07.2022

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. With securities markets experience in capital raising advisory leadership, Oren is Director of Capital Markets at investment bank Intersection Capital, where he manages its capital-raising platform. Since 2005, Oren has since grown the firm history to approximately $2 billion in aggregate trade volume acros...

Michael Michalowicz – The Importance of Effective Marketing when Scaling a Business 20.07.2022

By his 35th birthday MIKE MICHALOWICZ had founded and sold two multi-million-dollar companies.   Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Mike has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactfu...

Mark Zweig – Confessions of an entrepreneur who has led successful scaling businesses 13.07.2022

Mark is an Entrepreneur, Teacher, Writer, Speaker, and Vistage Chair. Mark started his entrepreneurial career early selling bicycles on the street corner of his childhood home at age eight or nine. He is the Founder of two Inc 500/5000 companies – Zweig Group (formerly Zweig White) and Mark Zweig, Inc. He built, sold, and bought back and resold his interest Zweig Group, a management consulting, pu...

Shirish Nadkarni – Why finding your value proposition and deep customer empathy is critical to scaling 06.07.2022

Shirish Nadkarni – Why finding your value proposition and deep customer empathy is critical to scaling If you are out to change the world, Shirish Nadkarni is your go-to coach to guide you through your entrepreneurial journey to make your startup dream come true. Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of milli...

Margaret Heffernan – Why business leaders need to deal with ambiguity and the importance of cultivating diversity when scaling a business 29.06.2022

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard & Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the "Top 25" by Streaming Media magazine and one of the "Top 100 Media Executives" by The...

Martin Schilling – The four pillars that are fundamental to scaling and why it is critical to have a North Star 22.06.2022

Martin is the Managing Director of the Techstars Accelerator in Berlin, angel investor and entrepreneur. He believes that we need to build 750 more unicorn companies within the next 10 years in Europe to create millions of future jobs, make Europe more independent when it comes to technology and give many the opportunity to realize their full potential. Martin believes that 'builders' are the inve...

Mithu Storoni – How to mitigate stress and overcome fear as you progress your scaling ambition 15.06.2022

Joining me today is Mithu Storoni a physician, a researcher, and the author of  Stress Proof: The Scientific Solution to Protect Your Brain and Body—and Be More Resilient Every Day . The book is full of practical evidence-based steps for protecting yourself against stress and its effects. Mithu spent years combing through over 1,000 research papers and clinical studies before condensing her findin...

Jamil Qureshi – The importance of self-belief, vision and purpose when scaling a business 08.06.2022

Jamil Qureshi is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1. He has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including the likes of Paul McGinley,...

Aidan McCullen - The importance of developing a psyche for scaling a business and knowing thyself 01.06.2022

Aidan McCullen is the host and founder of the Innovation Show, broadcast globally and on Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE.  It's also the only English-speaking show on Finland's Business FM!  It boasts such guests as Seth Godin, Rita McGrath and Charles Handy, and boasts Visa founder, Dee Hock, and Bill Gates amongst its listeners. Aidan is the author of the recently published book "Undisruptab...

[REPLAY - from the archive] Damian Hughes - How to be a great leader and create a high performing culture when scaling a business 25.05.2022

When scaling a business, what does it mean to become a liquid thinker? In this episode of the ScaleX™ Insider podcast, I'm speaking with international speaker and best-selling author, Damian Hughes. Damian combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture. He is the auth...

Brendan McGurgan and Claire Colvin – Recapping on our favourite moments from Season Four 18.05.2022

In today's episode I'm delighted to re-introduce Claire Colvin. 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 acro...

Andrew Sillitoe – The Four Keys business leaders need to support sustainable scaling 11.05.2022

Andrew Sillitoe is a business psychologist, author, and speaker. His innovative approach to leadership and work-life balance has earned him invitations to work with a range of global companies, including Pfizer, Nationwide, Virgin, and the BBC. Today Andrew is the CEO at Team Head Coach which runs the UK's number- one training company for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to succeed in bu...

Norman Crowley – The importance of developing psyche by doing the inner work when scaling a business 04.05.2022

Norman is an inspirational international entrepreneur who founded multiple successful businesses including The Cloud - Europe's largest WIFI operator, Inspired Gaming Group - the world's largest company in the server-based gaming domain, Trinity Commerce - one of the first eCommerce services companies in the world and Crowley Carbon. Today, Norman Crowley is the Founder of Coolplanet, a family of...

Holger Seim - The importance of purpose and the fundamentals of scaling a business 27.04.2022

Holger Seim is the Co-founder and CEO of Blinkist - One of Europe's most exciting startups that almost never existed. Founded in Berlin in 2012, Blinkist provides a selection of non-fiction knowledge in an app that makes it easy to fit learning into your everyday life. Highlighting key insights through audio and text explainers, called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist...

Owen Eastwood: The importance of a shared vision and creating a sense of belonging when scaling a business 20.04.2022

Owen Eastwood is one of the most sought-after performance coaches in the world and has been engaged by high profile teams across the globe who are searching for competitive advantage through their culture. He currently works with the British Olympic Team and the English Football Team in their World Cup year and is serving on the board of Harlequins Rugby. He has previously worked with diverse team...

Dr. Geoff Smart – The 'A' Method for Optimal Hiring and the characteristics of a high performing team when Scaling a Business 13.04.2022

Today, I am speaking with Dr. Geoff Smart. Dr. Geoff Smart is the Chairman & Founder of ghSMART. Founded in 1995, ghSMART helps Fortune 500 CEOs & boards, billionaire entrepreneurs, and heads of state to confidently achieve their goals through hiring, developing, and leading talented teams. ghSMART serves clients globally from its 12 offices in North America and Europe. For three consecutive years...

Cynthia Dearin – How to scale a business by moving into international markets 06.04.2022

Today, I am speaking with Cynthia Dearin. Cynthia is an international business strategist on a mission to empower business leaders to scale internationally and amplify their impact in the world. In 2001, Cynthia joined Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and became a diplomat, representing Australia in the Middle East. A few years later, Cynthia traded the foreign service for managem...

Alan Williams - Release the power of an organisation's values every day when scaling a business 30.03.2022

In this episode I am talking with Alan Williams. Alan is the Founder and Managing Director of SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL. SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL's purpose is to enable authentic service organisations to thrive and flourish in the new paradigm of what we term the Values Economy. This is done by helping progressive leaders to design, implement and improve a brand-aligned customer experience delivered by their...

Cameron Herold – How to use the vivid vision concept to help make your dreams happen when scaling a business 23.03.2022

Known by Many Leaders as "The Business Growth Guru" Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. He's the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and he's touched thousands of businesses indirectly through his work. At age 21, he had 14 employees. By 35, he'd helped build his first two $100 million companies. By the age of 42, Cameron had engin...

Michael J. Gelb - The seven steps to think like Leonardo da Vinci when scaling your business 16.03.2022

In this episode, I'm speaking with Michael Gelb. Michael is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, innovative leadership and executive coaching. Michael is a Senior Fellow at The Center for Humanistic Management and a member of the Leading People and Organizations Advis...

Nick Bradley – How to achieve freedom, accumulate wealth, and accelerate impact when scaling a business 09.03.2022

In this episode I'm speaking with Nick Bradley. Nick Bradley is a world-renowned business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors, building high-value companies. Over the last decade, he has built, bought, and sold 24 businesses with a combined valuation of $5.2 billion dollars. He also works with Private Equity and Venture Capital firms across the UK and the U...

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