About Sprintmodo

Our Beginning

At age 8 (or so!), Sprintmodo Founder, Tom O’Brien and his brother Michael, were told to pull the weeds from two sugar beet fields on their father’s farm. They agreed to do one field each and whoever was finished first would then help the other. It was a major underestimation of the job!

A few hours later they were still in the bottom corner of their fields. Their grandfather arrived and gave them ways of working that made them more efficient. They worked together in the same field for starters! They began to see the field being cleared of weeds. They had the feeling of momentum and it felt good.

Working in start-ups and large corporates, Tom saw the impact of momentum on team success and felt the frustration when momentum was lacking. During his MBA at London Business School, he began to collect proven work practices of the most successful leaders.

He founded Sprintmodo to help people do their best work, by enabling managers to take more impactful actions. These actions improve their own productivity and commercial awareness, and unlock the potential of their teams and the other stakeholders they work with.