Alister Esam

I trained as an Actuary, then sought a way to escape a career I found boring. Feeling trapped, I bootstrapped eShare, a SaaS business and discovered that was far from providing freedom. I exited that business to a multibillion-dollar organization but not before figuring out how to escape the trap I had created.

My new mission in life is to solve what he sees as an endemic problem in business, work just doesn't work.

My book 'The Dirty Word' addresses the way we disregard creativity and disempower individuals as we scale businesses.

I'm an investor and mentor to 20+ start-up companies and run a SaaS peer group where tech companies meet monthly to solve each other's business issues.

Did you know a staggering 70 percent of employees are actively disengaged, and more than 9 out of 10 are willing to trade a percentage of their lifetime earnings for greater meaning at work. Across age and salary groups, workers want meaningful work badly enough that they’re willing to pay for it.

This costs the UK alone between £52 and £70 Billion per year in lost productivity, and according to research by Willis Towers Watson, disengaged employees make 100 times more errors than their engaged colleagues.

My mission is to be the force that causes a paradigm shift in the world of work - quite simply so it works, so much better, bringing this to every CEO and business who wants transformational performance change, without transformational disruption or cost.