The Partnership Playbook: Unlock Business Growth, Build Systems, Reclaim Time
Struggling to grow your business despite trying every strategy? This podcast helps sales and marketing leaders build systems to secure high-value partnerships that unlock business growth, and reclaim time. Here’s what you’ll gain: • Identify where your partnership strategy is falling short and fix it. • Learn how to grow resilient revenue with distribution and supply chain partnerships. • Unlock innovations with product collaborations that can transform your industry. With 20+ years of experience growing companies in healthcare, biotech, aerospace, and eCommerce through partnerships, Phil Hayes-St Clair shares proven systems to help you grow predictably and minimise risk. New episodes drop every Monday, We...
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141. How to match energy with workload to drive growth and become a more effective CEO
<p>What if your leadership effectiveness had less to do with discipline… and everything to do with how well you manage your energy?</p><p>When energy drops, CEOs don’t just feel tired — they lose clarity, emotional steadiness, strategic judgment, and the ability to lead partnership-driven growth with intention.</p>Make sharper, calmer decisions by aligning your physiology with the outcomes you expectBuild a repeatable energy system that fuels creativity, communication, and long-term growthRemove hidden drains that quietly erode confidence, presence, and partnership momentum<br/><p>Listen now to learn how to lead with regulated energy and create lasting partne...
140. How Jeff Bezos makes decisions to unlock growth
<p>What if the biggest threat to your company’s growth isn’t bad decisions — but slow ones?</p><p>Every CEO knows the drag created when decisions stall. That gap between information and action quietly erodes trust, slows execution, and creates cultural drag. In this episode, Phil unpacks Jeff Bezos’s decision framework — refined in conversation with Adam Grant — and shows how increasing your decision velocity drives partnership alignment, organizational clarity, and sustained growth.</p>Learn how to use a simple 2x2 matrix to categorize decisionsIncrease your speed without increasing riskReduce friction inside your leadership team and accelerate execution<br/><p>Liste...
139. How I deliver value to you is changing (starting today)
<p>How I deliver value to you starts today.</p><p>New episodes Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.</p><p>More from Phil Hayes-St Clair:</p><p>Subscribe to the Wednesday Partnership Newsletter (and get immediate access to my Frameworks Vault)</p><p>Find me on LinkedIn</p><p>The Partnership Playbook is the podcast for leaders who want to grow with clarity, create leverage through partnerships, and lead their teams with meaning. Each episode gives you practical insights drawn from two decades of building and backing companies, coaching CEOs, and closing high-value partnerships across industries. You’ll learn how to sc...
138. Most Replayed Moment: How to build growth partnerships without getting burned
<p>What if your next big growth opportunity is a new relationship?</p><p>Too many founders chase transactions and miss out on the power of long-term partnerships. In this episode, Scott Kelly, investor and media collaborator, reveals how he vets founders, why “trust but verify” matters, and the subtle language that separates good deals from bad ones.</p><p>You’ll walk away with:</p>A simple heuristic for evaluating partnerships before the contractA mindset shift that turns cold outreach into recurring opportunityReal stories of how long-game collaboration drives business growth<br/><p>Listen now to level-up your partnership strate...
137. The hidden cost of partnership meetings (and how this AI can pay it back)
<p>What if the way you run meetings is quietly capping your global growth?</p><p>In this episode, discover how Rumi.ai founder Ramsey Pryor is rewriting the go-to-market playbook through partnerships and AI-driven meeting memory. You’ll learn:</p>Why “brand doesn’t travel” — and what founders can do before launching abroad.How to turn meeting chaos into a recall system that powers decision-making.The true meaning of partnership as a force multiplier for growth.<br/><p>🎧 Tune in to learn how partnership and growth come alive when context, culture, and technology align.</p><p>New episodes Monday, Wednesday and...
136. Why treating suppliers as vendors is slowing your growth (and how to fix it)
<p>Are your suppliers helping you grow or just filling orders?</p><p>If you're treating vendors like fixed-line costs instead of future-shaping partners, you're holding back growth, agility, and margin.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll discover:</p>How to assess your current supplier relationships across 12 critical partnership elementsThe 3 maturity levels—Baseline, Growth, and Strategic—and what shifts each one unlocksPractical moves to transform a vendor into a co-invested growth partner<br/><p>Want to build partnerships that scale your business—not just service it?</p><p>Listen now and get the “From Vendor to Partner” framework here.</p><p>Thanks...
135. How to re-build trust when a partnership breaks down
<p>Why do some partnerships crumble over small issues while others grow stronger from them?</p><p>In this episode you’ll learn:</p>The 4-step framework to repair any partnership issue without blame or confusionHow to prevent small missteps from derailing big opportunitiesWhy system fixes—not apologies—are your fastest path to partnership growth<br/><p>Listen now to turn a miss into momentum—and make your partnerships unbreakable.</p><p>Get the MISS Principle download here.</p><p>Thanks to Fiverr for sponsoring this episode! Use this link and the code PHILHSC10 to get 10% of your first order with Fiv...
134. How to Build a Leadership Platform That Attracts Growth-Driven Partners
<p>What if the key to partnership-driven growth isn't strategy—but curiosity?</p><p>Whether you're leading a team, selling under pressure, or building a movement, this episode with Ryan Hawk will flip your assumptions. From his journey through sports, sales, podcasting, and publishing, Ryan unpacks how commitment, standards, and relationships drive real results.</p><p>In this episode, you'll learn:</p>Why your curiosity is the most underused business advantageHow to lead former peers without losing trust—or momentumA simple mindset shift to attract high-quality partnerships<br/><p>Stop dabbling. Start building a life—and business—of lasting impact.</p><p> 🎧...
133. How to hire freelancers for growth (and avoid 15 fatal mistakes)
<p>Struggling to turn freelancer hires into real growth outcomes?</p>Learn how to craft a brief and milestone system that aligns external talent with your growth agenda.Discover how to vet freelancers like you vet partners—beyond cost and platform badge.Get the framework to manage freelancer engagements as high‑velocity experiments, so you scale faster and smarter. <br/><p>Ready to turn your freelancer hires into growth allies? Listen now.</p><p>This episode is sponsored by Fiverr.</p><p>Get 10% off your first order (Use code PHILHSC10 at checkout)</p><p>Read: 15 Mistakes To Avoid When Hiring Onlin...
132. How to Build Revenue-Driving Partnerships by Starting at the C-Suit
<p>What makes a partnership actually work?</p><p>Too many companies chase logos, launch press releases, and declare “partner-first”—only to find out later it didn’t move the needle. Adrienne Coburn shares how to build partnerships that fuel growth, not just optics.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll learn:</p>How to structure partnerships around mutual tension and trustWhy internal selling is ongoing, and how to do it wellThe step-by-step difference between performative and revenue-generating partner programs<br/><p>If you’re serious about using partnerships to drive real growth, this episode is your playbook.</p><p>🎧 Listen now to b...
