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Matt Garman

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Leadership Speaker, Mentor and Author at www.mattgarman.com
📍 Greater Brighton and Hove Area, United Kingdom

Matt Garman is a speaker, mentor, and author who helps owner-managed businesses build leadership teams ready for scaling or sale. His approach is shaped by an unconventional career, including working on a fishing trawler after leaving home at 16 and later building and selling two technology companies. People who have worked with him describe him as engaging, captivating, and a natural storyteller.

Referred to as The Corporate Adventurer, Matt draws leadership lessons from extreme endurance challenges. He has skippered a three-person team to row 3, 000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and has also swum the English Channel as part of a relay team, raising money for charity.

Unique fact: Matt’s Atlantic Ocean row took 49 days to complete, raising significant funds for Prostate Cancer UK and the Wolo Foundation.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Leadership Speaker, Mentor and Author
Location
Greater Brighton and Hove Area, United Kingdom
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Leadership Development
His career is dedicated to mentoring and speaking on building resilient, commercially-focused leadership teams that can operate independently of a founder.
Business Exit Strategy
His experience selling his own technology company taught him that "buyers buy leadership teams, not businesses, " a core principle in his work with founders.
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Career

Work history

5-2023
Leadership Speaker, Mentor and Author
www.mattgarman.com
9-2016
Mentor to Leaders and Aspiring Leaders
www.mattgarman.com
2012
Extreme Challenges
www.mattgarman.com
1-2024
Chairman
Growth Resourcing
8-2013 - 5-2025
Creator and CEO
GrowthEnabla
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Education
Made plenty of mistakes
University of Life
1981 - 1986
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Seaford Head School, East Sussex
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