ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

In this episode I'm speaking with Garry Ridge. Garry is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the WD-40 Company (NASDAQ WDFC) headquartered in San Diego, California. WD-40 Company is the maker of the household staple, WD-40 as well a number of other product lines including hand cleaners and household cleaning products. Garry has been with WD-40 Company since 1987 in various mana...

In this episode I'm speaking with Gabor George Burt. Gabor is a pioneer of re-imagining market boundaries, turning crisis into opportunity, creating irresistible customer experience design and future-shaping business transformation. Gabor created the Slingshot Framework, which enables individuals and organizations to go beyond perceived limitations in pursuit of high growth, expanded relevance, an...

In today's episode, I'm delighted to introduce Ryan Gottfredson PhD who is the cutting-edge mindset author of 'Success Mindsets: The key to unlocking greater success in your life, work and leadership'. Ryan is also a researcher and consultant and helps improve organisations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets.  He also works with organisations to develop their leaders and im...

In today's episode, I'm delighted to introduce Myriam Sidibe. Myriam is one of the world's leading experts of brands that drive health outcomes through mass behavioural change. During her 15-year career at Unilever Myriam spearheaded a movement - To change the hand washing behaviour of one billion people globally, which she achieved in 2019.  Myriam passionately believes that more of the private s...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Sam Watson Jones. Sam is the Co-Founder and President of Small Robot Company, an innovative business which is reimagining farming to make food production sustainable. Using robotics and artificial intelligence, they have created an entirely new model for ecologically harmonious, efficient, and profitable farming, Per Plant farming. Small Robot company...

In today's episode I am delighted to introduce Lee Brower. Lee is the Founder of Empowered Wealth, LLC, and the creator of The Business Family Coach®, a revolutionary program for entrepreneurs and business leaders. Using a proprietary coaching model, The Business Family Coach® applies the Empowered Wealth System™ in both businesses and families. The result is not only success and prosperity but su...

In today's episode I'm speaking with Patrick McKeown. Patrick is a world-renowned author and breathing practitioner. In a career spanning 20 years and having trained 1000's of people around the world Patrick has become a best-selling author and expert on the topic of optimal breathing for improved health, well-being and performance. Among his many books, two have consistently remained in the top t...

In today's episode I am delighted to introduce Dr. Alan Watkins. Alan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Complete Coherence. His ambition is to accelerate the development of leaders globally and reduce human suffering. He believes that every single person can become a better, more complete, and effective human being. He is a global thought leader on human performance, complexity and well-being and draws o...

In today's episode I am delighted to introduce Sherry Coutu CBE. Sherry is the founder of the UK ScaleUp Institute, which was incidentally a major inspiration for the creation of Simple Scaling. She is a serial entrepreneur and an Angel Investor in more than 70 companies. Sherry is highly accomplished and is currently a non-executive Director of Pearson plc, London Stock Exchange plc, DCMS, Workfi...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce John Spence. John is recognised as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world alongside the likes of Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos. At 26 years old, John was appointed as CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects across 20 countries. He is the author of four books. I'm really excited to sh...

In today's episode I'm delighted to 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 across...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Marga Hoek, a member of Thinkers50. Marga is that rare combination: a true visionary on sustainable business and capital and a successful, innovative business leader who understands and applies the commercial realities of business. Marga is also the award-winning author of the Trillion Dollar Shift which is the first ever business book on the opportuni...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Chris Yonker, a Vision Alchemist, Speaker, and Author who specialises in vision creation to align your business and your life. Chris is a world-leading expert in vision creation. He and his team work with companies (big and small) as well as high achievers like executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and celebrities to get clarity on what they really want...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Kevin Shulman. Kevin is President of Shulman & Associates/Sandler training, where he has been training business owners, sales managers and salespeople to help them grow their business and reach their full potential. He is the author of 'Goal-Setting Bootcamp' which provides a practical 'how-to' approach with goal setting. It is designed for anyone with...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Dr. Oleg Konovalov, the Da Vinci of Visionary leadership. Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and coach with over 25 years' experience operating businesses and consulting Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally.  In today's episode, we talk about:     How having a vision is critical and fundam...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Amy Rowlinson, a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Mentor and a leader in purpose and fulfilment. Amy helps people to focus on their WHY with clarity, uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. Her mission is to reach unfulfilled people who are looking for their WHY to guide them to live a life with purpose and fulfil...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Maura Nevel Thomas. Maura is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance and is the most widely cited authority on attention management.  She helps driven, motivated knowledge workers control their attention and regain control over the details of their life and work. Maura h...

I am delighted to introduce Dan Lowes, a former RAF Fighter pilot and Executive Officer of the world-famous Red Arrows. Dan has made it his life's goal to consistently operate at a world class level and is immersed in the power of effective communication and the art of debriefing.  In today's episode, Dan talks about: The importance of self-reflection when creating a high-performance culture Menta...

In today's episode, I'm delighted to introduce Sam Rathling, one of the world's experts in social selling strategies. Sam is the Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) at the Pipeline 44 Group and Linked Inbound and is a Best-Selling Author and International Speaker.   Recently named by Yahoo! Finance as a Top LinkedIn Expert to follow, Sam and her team are on the ambitious mission to generate over £1billi...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce Paul Akers, the Founder and President of FastCap which started in Paul's garage in 1997 when he simply "fixed what bugged him" and developed his first product: the Fastcap Cover Cap. From humble beginnings, FastCap has thousands of distributors worldwide in over 40 countries. He wrote his first book, 2 Second Lean, about creating a fun, lean culture wh...

Over the past 23 years Claire has worked as a partner to business leaders, founders 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 6 continents. Prior to that,...

In today's episode I'm delighted to introduce JT McCormick, President and CEO of Scribe Media (formerly Book in a Box), a publishing company that helps aspiring authors write, publish and market their books. Scribe has worked with more than 1,000 authors and Entrepreneur Magazine recently ranked it as having the Top Company Culture in America. Previously, JT was the President of Headspring Softwar...

Today's episode features Niall O'Murchu, an official Wim Hof Method Instructor. Niall has had a huge impact on my own life and the lives of 1000's of others and strongly believes that you can transform how you feel and think by using your breath, nature and the Wim Hof Method. In this episode we discuss, the Wim Hof Method, why it has risen to prominence in recent years, how the Wim Hof Method imp...

I'm delighted to introduce Kingsley Aikins, CEO of The Networking Institute whose mission is to help individuals and organisations achieve their goals through Networking. He is a recognised expert on the topic and has written and spoken extensively on the benefits of Networking and how to get better at it. He has run workshops and developed online and offline training programmes in the areas of Ne...

David Marquet, a former Nuclear Submarine Commander is a student of leadership. Named as one of the Top 100 leadership Speakers by Inc. Magazine, David is the Author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller: Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders and The Turn the Ship Around Workbook. Fortune magazine called the book the "best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, tra...