44 min
Sherry Coutu CBE - The importance of attracting talent and removing barriers when scaling a business ScaleX™ Insider Podcast
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- Entrepreneurship
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, Workfinder, and Raspberry Pi.
Since founding, scaling, floating and exiting interactive investor (a company now estimated to be worth almost £1.5bn), Sherry has accumulated decades of experience chairing FTSE companies, acting as Senior Independent Director, Chairing Remunerations Committees, Nominations Committees and serving on Audit Committees.
Philanthropically, she supports Founders4Schools, Digital Boost, and Cancer Research UK. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year's Honours List 2013 and she was commissioned by the UK Government in 2014 to author the Scaleup Report on UK Economic Growth.
Although, not one for the spotlight she has quietly built a reputation as an instrumental figure in the UK’s thriving tech scene over the last two decades.
I’m really excited to share this conversation with you because Sherry has made extensive connections between people and technology helping millions of people’s lives become easier.
Today we discuss:
How talent is the lifeblood of any organisation and is one of the keys to scaling a business Sherry’s knack of spotting a problem and then putting a team together to create a solution Removing systematic barriers to scaling in communities Why it is important to build peer groups when scaling a business – no one has all the answers Why you need to think about what customers need, where there are gaps in the market and what doesn’t exist but should exist. Key Takeaway
“The businesses that scale the most are those that are a talent magnet.”
Contact Sherry
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutu/
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years’ experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
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, Workfinder, and Raspberry Pi.
Since founding, scaling, floating and exiting interactive investor (a company now estimated to be worth almost £1.5bn), Sherry has accumulated decades of experience chairing FTSE companies, acting as Senior Independent Director, Chairing Remunerations Committees, Nominations Committees and serving on Audit Committees.
Philanthropically, she supports Founders4Schools, Digital Boost, and Cancer Research UK. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year's Honours List 2013 and she was commissioned by the UK Government in 2014 to author the Scaleup Report on UK Economic Growth.
Although, not one for the spotlight she has quietly built a reputation as an instrumental figure in the UK’s thriving tech scene over the last two decades.
I’m really excited to share this conversation with you because Sherry has made extensive connections between people and technology helping millions of people’s lives become easier.
Today we discuss:
How talent is the lifeblood of any organisation and is one of the keys to scaling a business Sherry’s knack of spotting a problem and then putting a team together to create a solution Removing systematic barriers to scaling in communities Why it is important to build peer groups when scaling a business – no one has all the answers Why you need to think about what customers need, where there are gaps in the market and what doesn’t exist but should exist. Key Takeaway
“The businesses that scale the most are those that are a talent magnet.”
Contact Sherry
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coutu/
About the Host
Director and Founder of Simple Scaling, Brendan brings 25 years’ experience of scaling businesses. Previously, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-mcgurgan-11854a13/
https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team
44 min