#19 - Ben Smit, Founder of Teamgage on Entrepreneurship and Creating a Culture of High Performance through Technology

Ben Smit is an entrepreneur and highly skilled at growing scale-up companies and leveraging technology to solve human problems, with a focus on engaging team members to own and advocate the improvement process. He is a co-founder and CEO of Teamgage, software that enables team collaboration, wellbeing, and continuous improvement. The system measures behaviours and sentiment aligned to the strategy of the organisation and drives teams and managers to action their own improvements in real-time. Ben and Teamgage are taking on the worldwide market, and it has grown to service clients across Australia, Asia Pacific and North America.  

In today's episode, Ben spoke about his entrepreneurship journey, going into business with his wife Noelle, scaling the business across the world, the highs and lows of running your own business and how Teamgage's software adds value to companies and teams, helping to create a culture of high performance through technology. 

Where to find Ben Smit:  

Ben's LinkedIn
Teamgage's website 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

• The 10X Rule - The Only Difference Between Success and Failure - By: Grant Cardone 
• Principles - Life and Work - By: Ray Dalio 
• Radical Candor - How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean - By: Kim Scott 
• Decisive - How to make better choices in life and work - By: Chip & Dan Heath 
• Made to Stick - Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath 
• The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team - A Leadership Fable By: Patrick Lencioni 

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