Matthew Pollard

Matthew Pollard, known as the Rapid Growth® Guy, helps introverted business owners win clients in complex, competitive markets.

An introvert himself, social situations left him drained. With a learning disability that affected his reading speed, he grew up feeling like the “slow kid.” After being laid off from his first job, he fell into sales—and it didn’t go well.

After knocking on 93 doors to make his first sale, Pollard realized the problem wasn’t effort—it was that all methodologies felt forced, as though they were trying to get him to act like an extrovert. Unwilling to accept that, he went to work building a sales system that leveraged his natural introverted strengths, becoming the #1 salesperson in the largest sales company in the Southern Hemisphere and going on to be responsible for five multimillion-dollar business success stories.

After moving to the U.S., he decided to help others like himself. To Pollard, there’s something heroic about starting a business—especially if you’re an introvert and feel like the cards are stacked against you. But when he began networking, he hit another wall. He felt the way everyone networked was either unplanned and unstructured, or worse, driven by frameworks like the elevator pitch, overly contrived and self-promotional. Pollard saw the need to create something new: a networking process focused on communicating passion, genuine care, and authenticity.

Today, his "Introvert’s Edge" book series has sold over 125,000 copies in 17 languages, and his work has helped tens of thousands of businesses worldwide. His keynotes and workshops on Rapid Growth and Storytelling have been trusted by Intel and Marriott International, and his Build Your Story Playbook presentation earned him Sales Kickoff Speaker of the Year by Selling Power Magazine—cementing his reputation as a leading conversational storytelling speaker.