About
Welcome to The Mentalist Entrepreneur
We combine clarity, execution, and momentum, turning ideas into outcomes and strategies into real, measurable results. We move organisations and people forward.
Where instinct meets strategy, disruption meets discipline, and outside-the-box-thinking is applauded.
This is a place for ambitious business builders learn how to fine tune their business engine.
Be it start up, scale up or route to a successful exit, being more of a Mentalist Entrepreneur will only help you achieve your aim.
It's a philosophy and a community wrapped up in practical actions and purpose.
It's not for everyone. That's the point.
This website is the presents the work Gary Goldsmith has done to bottle the X Factor that separates the special ones.
Two decades of research, four decades of extraordinary business success and a passion for change, innovation and disruption he has bottled that knowledge into a variety of learning formates.
Gary is the originator of this inspired method of going about the business of business.
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Why The Mentalist Entrepreneur
Explore how The Mentalist Entrepreneur helps you think sharper, scale faster, and exit stronger:
Growth Coach: drive clarity, pace, and profit with your leadership team.
Mentor: sharpen mindset, build authority, and lead deliberately.
E3: Exit & Event Enablers: plan, grow, and execute a confident, profitable exit.
NED + Chair: add strategic weight and entrepreneurial edge at board level.
Speaker & Author: stories, lessons, and laughter from a life in business.
This is straight talk for founders who want more than success; they want significance.
Testimonials
Proudly Rated 5 Stars
Gary is a rare business hero sharp, iconoclastic, and luminous when things look unclear. He challenges every assumption, accelerates every ambition, and expands every horizon. “What would GG do?” guides my decisions. If you want to scale the impossible, spend time with him. A true guide and friend.
Suhail Mirza
The voice of healthcare staffing.
Quite simply the best man l ever reported into. Hired me when nobody else would.
The recruitment Guru.
Thank you Gary
Lawrence Doe
Global Director, SThree PLC
Gary got me and the business shifting through the gears Net Gain, run-rate, trial starts, divide-and-double, marketing, productisation and plugged us into his brilliant embedded SME network. In six months we doubled contractors, WGP and our sales team and still grew EBITDA. GG’s one of a kind and genuinely great fun to work with.
Luke McClusky
Founder, Circle Group
Gary's involvement in supporting
the business with its Vision and business objectives has been incredible. His insight and connections are invaluable. Gary's passion and energy is infectious. He is an absolute joy to work with (and a lot of fun) predominantly because of his passion for recruitment but most importantly doing recruitment in a quality driven and professional way.
Annika De Friend
Director, Intelligent People
Gary is a rare breed outspoken, brilliant, and far more inspiring than people first realise. Working with him for two years transformed my business and made me a better professional. His creativity is unmatched, his sales instincts are genius, and his honesty is earned. Beyond all that, he’s loyal, generous, and genuinely one of the good ones.
Get to know Gary and you'll realise why everyone who truly knows him loves him.
John Lennon
Founder, Thryve
Gary is an ingenious problem solver, a strategist as well as a down-to-earth tactician, a realist and very importantly an optimist ! He sees value and opportunity in people and situations, will generously invest his time and energy, openly share his experience and "know how" and will naturally take the people with him. I have been very fortunate to be coached by Gary and I look forward to more collaborations.
Sandy Ferez
Fractional M&A CFO
I’ve known Gary since 1990, and there’s simply no one in our sector with his depth of understanding. Strategy, operations, sales, marketing, process, he’s world-class across all of it, with a delivery record that’s off the charts. What sets him apart, though, is his commitment to others’ success. Behind the big personality is a man of integrity, professionalism and genuine care especially for those who hold themselves to high standards. I challenge anyone to match his work ethic.
Allan Smith
Director, Business Consulting
Probably the best person I know in Recruitment and if Carlsberg did NED's they would be GG! I worked for Gary for over a decade at Computer Futures, he was responsible for setting up and growing the most successful Contract business ever. He is as inspirational and passionate now as he was all those years ago.
After setting up erg, Gary and I rekindled our friendship he
gives me everything I could possible need as a business owner from insight, support, innovation, intro's and a massive cheerleader. Friends for life.
Johnny Morse
CEO, ERG
Often overshadowed by his family connections, many don’t realise what Gary has actually achieved. To those who do, he’s not just arguably the most successful person in recruitment he’s a genuine genius. Sharp as a blade, unapologetically direct, witty, wildly popular, a little crazy, and a true blue-sky thinker. He commands any room. He’s obsessed with process, yet one of the greatest motivators of people you’ll ever meet. And what hasn’t he done?
Mathew Springham
Founder, We Are Revolution
Quite simply the best man l ever reported into. Hired me when nobody else would.
The recruitment Guru.
Thank you Gary
Lawrence Doe
Global Director, SThree PLC