Jason Smith Entrepreneur | Educator | Philanthropist

At 10 years of age, Jason had his first 'God' moment while watching Saturday morning cartoons, and this moment has guided his decisions ever since.

Jason was a reluctant practice owner promising his wife would never own a practice. Yet he grew his garage-based business to 140 locations and kicked the anthill called franchising. He only left his garage when his wife suggested the driveway wasn't the most professional of waiting rooms. His business, Back in Motion eventually sold for around $100 million. 

For $200 Jason recommends the following books;

1. Michael Gerber - The E-Myth (Revisited)
2. John Maxwell - The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
3. Bob Buford - Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance 

Jason's message to younger Physios is to consider developing;

• clinical excellence
• leadership skills
• understand the importance of commercial paradigms 

Thanks for listening.

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Biography
Jason is a dynamic businessman and award-winning leadership expert in high demand. Failed medical missionary, reluctant businessman, unqualified franchisor, all leading to accidental founder and CEO of Australia's largest physiotherapy network at the time, the Back In Motion Health Group, creating an unlikely success that surprises him even more than those around him.

Ernst Young entrepreneur-of-the-year, Jason believes the opportunity of a lifetime comes around about once a day. He made a career out of getting it wrong more than he got it right - but knowing when he did get it right, how to repeat it over and again. More street-smart than book-smart, he never wanted a business, and yet ended up with over 140 of them supported by a team of 700+ and eventually selling for over $100m. He started six brands over 20 years and closed or sold five of them. 

Initially, a leader by chance, Jason has now mentored over 1,000 others like him through the Iceberg Leadership Institute. A regular contributor on business, leadership, and health-related topics, you can hear his thoughts on podcasts, television, radio, and online channels. Whilst he has written a few internationally-acclaimed books, he prefers to read those of others. 

Having presented to over 60,000 people internationally, Jason feels there is more at stake in small intimate groups where he can't hide the whites of his eyes from the very same he is engaging. Director on many boards, chairman of a few. Socially conservative; economically liberal, compassionately capitalistic, and politically disillusioned. Giving time and resources to numerous social initiatives to empower the poorest of the world's poor, his future is now in missional philanthropy.