Monday Morning Coffee with Peter Boolkah

Peter Boolkah is a business coach based in Chelmsford, Essex, the creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap, and the author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life. He grew up in a working-class family in East Ham and started his career flipping burgers at McDonald’s, where he worked his way up the corporate ladder and saw how strong systems let a business run without relying on one extraordinary person. In 2004 he left to open his own restaurant, later sold his share, and was approached by ActionCOACH, where he has coached business owners since 2005. He was the first EMEA coach inducted into the ActionCOACH Hall of Fame, was the first certified Scaling Up coach in the United Kingdom, and has won more than 40 coaching awards. After more than 60,000 hours inside businesses on five continents, he believes most owners don’t own a business, they own a job, and he helps founders stop being the bottleneck by building leadership teams, systems, and accountability so the company can grow, run, or sell without them.