Guest
Michael Howard
Founder of a 250-strong office design and fit-out firm, built from homelessness at 17 on away-from-pain motivation.
Founder, Office Design and Fit-Out Company
Michael Howard runs a multi-million-pound office design and fit-out company employing 250 people, and his route there started with brief homelessness at 17. He credits away-from-pain motivation, the drive to escape being broke, over any towards-success ambition, and a mid-life turn to radical self-education for the mindset that built the firm. By choice, he keeps a low public profile.
On The BEYOND Podcast he talked with host and producer Aleksandra King through the unglamorous truth of entrepreneurship: the maths that kills most startups, sales as problem-solving, hiring for character, owning mistakes, customer-centric culture, and the pressure and purpose of profit at scale.
Credentials
- Founder of a multi-million-pound office design and fit-out company
- Scaled the firm to 250 employees
- Self-educated from homelessness at 17 to business ownership
Their episode
Michael Howard: The Truth About Building a Business– Pressure, Pain & Profit, on The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King.