About Train Every Brain for Growth
TrainEveryBrain.com was born out of a desire to bring the best business growth knowledge in the world to every ambitious company, not just the major corporates.
All too often, the only companies able to afford “real” growth training and development opportunities are the largest ones with the deepest pockets. We should know – we trained them! We observed that, for regular companies, 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government agencies provide free business growth programmes with limited budgets with typically very low-quality or outdated content.
In answer to this problem, we’ve created the first “Robin Hood” of business growth platforms! We’ve brought the best growth skills, tools and subject-matter-experts we could find across a whole range of different business growth disciplines and translated these into highly practical, digestible skills programmes able to be taught to every level and every role in the business in order to literally activate every single brain in the business behind your most ambitious growth objectives and challenges.
Our mentors are current “real-world” active experts in their field and we have collectively been involved in taking literally hundreds of businesses through business growth programmes with huge success. These subject matter experts have truly “walked-the-walk” having created or worked with some of the best ambitious growth tools, frameworks and methodologies anywhere in the world.
Your Mentors
Our carefully curated and growing team of mentors are current “real-world” active experts in their field. Many remain working at the cutting edge of their market, in active roles related to their expertise or have since become collectively involved in taking hundreds of businesses through business growth programmes with huge success. These subject matter experts have truly “walked-the-walk” having created or worked with some of the best ambitious growth tools, frameworks and methodologies anywhere in the world.
Jamie McCallum
Business Growth Strategy & 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 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.
Evelyn Simpson
Angel Investor | corporate finance specialist | Exec Leadership Coach
Evelyn is a successful executive, leadership coach and angel investor who excels in helping ambitious companies understand corporate finance and build their own funding strategies. She is also a highly experienced coach and mentor who has worked with hundreds of founders on leading their companies through rapid growth. Evelyn's corporate finance skills were honed in her early career at JP Morgan Chase where she worked with large multinational companies to structure and execute, debt equity and M&A transactions. She brings her deep understanding of funding strategy, as well as her experience as an angel investor to her work with high growth companies. She has designed and led training programmes to help founders understand and navigate the challenges of funding early stage and high growth companies and to teach them the skills they need to develop their own successful corporate finance strategies. Evelyn also works with founders to develop the skills and thinking they need to be able to lead their companies as they grow and to maximise the benefits of their relationships with investors. Evelyn is the Vice Chair of Scottish Action for Mental Health which works in communities throughout Scotland to support better health and wellbeing.
Gordon Inglis
corporate sales director | chief revenue officer | revenue growth expert
Gordon Inglis is a dynamic automotive industry leader and Chief Revenue Officer at Aston Barclay Vehicle Remarketing, bringing over two decades of expertise in revenue generation and strategic partnerships. Formerly with Carwow as Principal Head of Sales, Gordon spearheaded the creation of their successful online auction platform, achieving record sales and securing major partnerships with brands like Tesla, Lookers, and Arnold Clark. Prior to this, he held a pivotal role at BCA (Cinch, We Buy Any Car), Europe’s largest vehicle remarketing business, as National Account Manager, where he excelled in expanding business and building long-standing industry relationships. His reputation for driving UK-wide growth and delivering game-changing ideas in vehicle remarketing is set to elevate Aston Barclay’s market reach. In addition, as a Non-Executive Director for the Scottish Motor Trade Association, he combines strategic vision with hands-on leadership to achieve success across the industry.
Julia Shalet
Customer Discovery Expert | Award Winning author of "the really good idea test"
Julia Shalet, “Product Doctor”, is an acclaimed innovator, product leader & award-winning author who has brought many successful products & propositions to market and helped many others to do the same. She has extensive experience consulting, coaching and training at all levels - students to C-Level board members - and across an extremely broad range of sectors. Her work has been recognised by the BBC on both television and radio, in the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Techcrunch, Management Today & Forbes. Her book, The Really Good Idea Test, was published by Pearson, won an Axiom Business Book Award in 2021 and has been translated into German and Chinese.