In this introductory episode, I share with you my vision to inspire and enable millions of ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, through the ScaleX™ Insider podcast, and hopefully one of those will be you.

Every week, I will be speaking with business leaders, industry experts and authorities on one or more of the 10 Principles of Scaling to support you on your Scaleup journey.

I believe passionately in both business scale up and personal scale up and, most importantly, the wellbeing of you: the aspirational Scaleup leader.

Having spent 25 years in martial arts, and more recently in triathlon and embarking on becoming a Wim Hof Method instructor, I recognise the value of physical and mental wellbeing in underpinning your Scaleup success.

To this, we aim to bring you insights to scaleup success from a host of different perspectives.

I’m really looking forward to sharing the ScaleX™ Insider Podcast with you every week.

You can find us on your favourite podcast apps and platforms including Spotify, Amazon Audible and Apple Podcasts.

About Brendan:

With a background in Finance, my first scaleup leadership role came in the technology sector during the Dot.com boom. The now infamous boom and bust of the dot com bubble led me to engineering and manufacturing joining a small Northern Irish company, then with revenues of £3m and a Team of 15 people. I had the privilege of leading the company as CEO for 12 years and being immersed in Scale Ups for 20 years.

During this time, we scaled the company successfully to lead our industry growing from small to medium to becoming a large company. Establishing offices across 6 continents, from Australia and India through to North and South America, we employed almost 700 people, exporting to more than 100 countries achieving profitable revenue growth of almost £100m.

Our success was acknowledged by Deloitte (becoming a best-managed company for 11 consecutive years), the London Stock Exchange in their Companies to Inspire Europe series, The Sunday Times fast-track awards where we were listed across various categories and I was honoured to receive the overall UK Director of the Year award in 2016 where our success was recognised by the prestigious Institute of Directors.

We became a very successful SME who achieved the elusive status of having Scaled Up but sadly as I came to realise, only 2-4% of SMEs ever achieve scale up. Inspired to change this my business Partner Claire and I co-founded Simple Scaling in 2019.

To find out more, head over to:

https://simplescaling.com/