Mentor Business Podcast · 19 December 2025
Transactional vs Transfomational Decision Making: Which Pays Off The Most In Your Business and Career Growth?
Episode · 19.12.2025 · Solo · Video + audio

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If you’re a business owner or entrepreneur chasing business growth but stuck in short-term thinking, this episode will challenge how you approach business coaching and business mentoring at a fundamental level. MentorBusiness.com exists for founders who want transformation, not quick wins.
Dr Lewis Haydon, a trusted global business coach, business mentor, and organisational behaviour expert, breaks down why most leaders say they want scale, but make decisions that quietly sabotage leadership development, long-term value, and enterprise growth. Drawing from real boardroom conversations across multiple businesses, Lewis exposes the dangerous gap between transactional ROI thinking and transformational business mentoring.
Takeaways:
- You’ll learn how business coaching shifts founders from short-term decision making into scalable leadership capability, including:
- Why ROI-driven thinking limits leadership development and long-term business growth
- How return on development creates compounding advantage for founders and CEOs
- The difference between transactional decisions and transformational business mentoring
- How to build a personal “boardroom table” using executive coaching, mentors, and advisors
- Why customers, employees, and leaders must be developed, not just extracted from
- How global business coaches think about lifetime value, not one-off wins
- The mindset shift required to scale your business sustainably as a founder or CEO
This episode is a hard truth for entrepreneurs worldwide: what’s the point of transactions if you don’t transform?