A short highlights reel of Bill Gallagher speaking on stage (YouTube). In this excerpt hosts introduce Gallagher (noting travel and business-scaling credentials), and Gallagher emphasizes coaching focused on discovering a person’s deep "why" (personal purpose), aligning work to strengths, addressing weaknesses, and the goal of making a measurable difference (creating teams and roles people are proud of).
So I've had people tell me our strategy is totally dialed, and yet their growth is flat. Right. So it's time to change it up.
So next up, we have Bill Gallagher. He's a sailor, skier, bike athlete, pilot. Our dear friend and sponsor, Bill Gallagher. Get up here, bill. You.
Know 25 cities in 11 countries.
Yeah.
Right. And you've grown companies from startup to over half a billion dollars.
Yeah. You amaze me. If not brighter. Without further ado, I present Bill Gallag.
The purpose of my life is making a difference.
Coach, I like to think, is somebody who has you.
Do what you don't want to do so that you can be who you've always wanted to be. And my first task as a coach with anyone is to figure out who they really always wanted to be. The thing that they don't often say out loud to people because they're uncomfortable. They're afraid it won't happen. They're afraid of what people will say. But that's the first thing that I think of. And the big idea here is that you deserve the company, or you have the company you deserve right now. So if we want to scale up, we have to deal with you. Not just the whole team, not just the rock dog habits out of the team, but we have to deal with who you.
Are.
That.
Caused the mess.
We'Re looking for. Your why and the why of your life is like the why of your business. It is a deep, emotionally eliciting answer to a question with a reason for something.
We can work.
With what you're good at, your strengths, and then put that into practice and address the area that you're weak in. It's so fucking gratifying. Right? There's 100 people who have a new job that they're proud of, a team that they love being a part of. That's.
The kind of.
Work that you and I do.
And it's just.
You know, it's these things.
