About Train Every Brain for Growth
The internet is awash with cheap, high volume, on-demand training for businesses that delivers little or no real impact. Local government agencies provide free business growth programmes with limited budgets with typically very low-quality or outdated content. The only companies able to afford “real” growth training and development opportunities are the big corporates.
At Train Every Brain for Growth we’ve set out to address this issue. Our mentors have been involved in taking literally hundreds of businesses through accelerators and business growth programmes with huge success. We’ve looked around to find some of the best-in-class subject matter experts across a range of different growth disciplines who have had exposure to (or have created) some of the best ambitious growth and derisking methodologies anywhere in the world. Finally we have spent over 12 years translating what works for major companies into something useable by typically sized ambitious companies – something we like to call “The Robin Hood Model”!
About Our Core Team
Jamie McCallum
Founder | Business Growth & Innovation expert | Exec Leadership Coach
Jamie is a highly experienced entrepreneur, business strategy, innovation and product commercialisation specialist.
He has worked on over 150 strategy and innovation projects for companies in the UK, Europe and USA, installing their innovation processes and helping hands-on to create and commercialise their ideas for innovative new products, services, customers & markets.
He has worked at a strategic level with various companies and sectors over the last 12 years – from small high growth start-ups to established London Fintech PLC’s through which he developed proprietary facilitation, coaching, strategic analysis and planning tools.
Jamie is one of only a handful of people in Europe qualified to Black Belt standard in Innovation Engineering - the best in class innovation methodology responsible for over 30 products in every US home - having been trained directly by its creator, US business guru Doug Hall, at the famous Eureka! Ranch in Cincinnati.
In addition, Jamie has been key in the design and delivery of a range of government programmes – most notably InterTrade Ireland’s flagship innovation programme – “The Challenge Programme” – which ran for 10 years and was independently evaluated to have delivered an extremely high economic return on investment. Laterally he designed the emergency recovery strategy programme delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic by multiple Scottish local authorities. Most recently he has designed, and been Programme Director for, 3 UK-based high-growth accelerator programmes and delivers post-doctoral business training to various universities.
As well as being a tech CEO himself, having raised multiple rounds of private equity finance, he has also mentored business leaders on various premier leadership programmes – including Leadership for Growth, Growth Leadership and Leadership Essentials for 12 consecutive years.
Outside of business, Jamie is one of the founders of the multi award-winning charity Wouldn't Change a Thing and has won both the Scottish and UK Pride of Britain awards for his work in the charity sector.