Nick Bradley, Co-founder & Director, The Fielding Group, Scale-up Specialist, Business Growth Mentor & Investor

This week on The New P&L we speak to Nick Bradley, world-renowned business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors, transforming good companies into great ones. Over the last decade, he has built, bought and sold 22 businesses with a combined valuation of $5.2 billion dollars.  Nick also works with Private Equity and Venture Capital firms across the UK and the US leading business turnarounds, mergers, acquisitions and scale-ups and is the co-founder of The Fielding Group, a growth accelerator that helps companies improve business performance and host of the hugely successful 'Scale Up Your Business' podcast series.  His mission is to help create empires, bringing entrepreneurial skill set and mindset to people all over the world as a driving force of progression and prosperity. We discuss with Nick: - Whether there are a common set of key characteristics that all successful entrepreneurial leaders possess - What some of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face today are -  Whether entrepreneurs need a different set of skills to lead business as we work our way out of the pandemic? If so, how do they acquire these skills? - The key elements that inhibit a successful M&A once the ink on the contract is dry - The practical steps business leaders can take to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit within their employees for mutual benefit - What companies can do to keep a culture of explosive or accelerated innovation and creativity after a founder or charismatic leader departs Insta: @nickcbradley FB: @nickcbradley LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbradley-scaleupspecialist/ Web: www.suyb.global  To subscribe to all of The New P&L series podcasts, go to: www.principlesandleadership.com Insta: @principlesandleadership