On todays show, Kevin Bees interviews entrepreneur and speaker Rael Bricker.
Rael Bricker has seen it all – from being 6,000 feet under ground to growing an education business to 4000 plus students, to spending years working in venture capital. He’s listed companies on two international stock exchanges, and his financial services group has settled more than $3bn in loans in 18 years. Rael has diverse work history combined with his unique global research interviews with companies in more than 25 countries. With over 30 years as a serial entrepreneur, Rael Bricker helps businesses succeed by delivering a series of dynamic talks on building businesses by thinking outside the box. Rael has been presenting for many years on business, culture, finance, investing, diversity and ethics. The learning is best practice combined with practical experience to achieve business excellence.
Rael Bricker holds two Masters degrees, an MBA and MSc (Software Engineering) and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering (BSc (Eng) . Rael is currently a Fellow of the MFAA. (Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia), a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) of PSA (Professional Speakers Australia) and a Member of AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors). Additionally, Rael is the first inspirationalist in Australia with Integrus Global and a Mentor with both Mentored With Mark Bouris and Mastermind.space. Rael is also the Author of “Dive In : Lessons learnt since business school”.
In today’s episode Rael Bricker shares:
- How he has managed to publicly list companies twice
- How growing companies via acquisition led his business to a 17x growth
- How he learned new skills along the way and became a licensed finance broker, and mortgage broker and has been able to help businesses raise over the $3Bn in funding.
- Why his focus is on helping people in business to be the best version of themselves and how he does that through:
- Leadership
- Culture
- Strategy
- Jack Welch quote: “The soft stuff is the hard stuff”
- Lead indicators and lag indicators – if you can get leadership, culture and strategy to work correctly, the lag indicators of profitability will follow in the right direction.
- The life-changing question Rael asked after recovering from a serious heart condition:
“What am I passionate about in my life?” / “What makes me happy?” - How he became South Africa’s #1 Toastmaster at the age of 20, and how he has continued to improve with the help of experts like Lindsay Adam’s, Michael Grinder & Glen Capelli.
- What is ‘return on excellence’ and how to obtain it.
Resources mentioned in today’s episode:
Radical Candor By Kim Scott
Lindsay Adams <Link to his episode>
Glen Capelli https://profithive.com.au/
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