The Courageous Leaders Club

007 Sam Garrity: Why generating belief is more important than strategy and how to align with your team

January 06, 2022 Joanna Howes Season 1 Episode 7
The Courageous Leaders Club
007 Sam Garrity: Why generating belief is more important than strategy and how to align with your team
Show Notes

Sam Garrity is Co-Founder and CEO of RocketMill. 

In this episode Sam shares how during Covid his company grew 41% which he believes is due to putting his people first, over profit. He explains that by looking through the lens of your people you understand how they see, think and feel and therefore you can align with them making them feel understood and build a stronger culture and sense of unity. 


He agrees leadership can be terrifying but if you lead as a human you allow people to see you and you are more accepted and received and achieve more effectively together. 


Over the past decade, Sam has successfully led his team from being a self-funded start-up serving micro-businesses, to being one of the largest independent UK digital marketing agencies, working with ambitious SMEs and global brands. One of the keys to RocketMill's success has been nurturing a famous employer brand, embedding a people-first philosophy, which sees them regularly placed towards the top of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, and recently become an employee-owned company.


Topics covered include:

  • Scaling during Covid 
  • People over profit 
  • Creating culture 
  • Leading as a human
  • Giving safety, security and certainty increases performance 
  • Understand what your people need
  • Leadership then and now

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