From Building Businesses to Building Opportunities — A Conversation With Grant Erskine

🎙From Building Businesses to Building Opportunities — A Conversation With Grant Erskine Grant Erskine From Building Businesses to Building Opportunities: Grant Erskine’s Journey of Entrepreneurship and Reinvention In his Legacy Bench conversation, Grant Erskine reflects on a career that has never followed the conventional route and explains why creating your own opportunities is often the greatest advantage an entrepreneur can have. At the heart of Grant’s story is a willingness to back himself. Long before becoming one of the UK’s youngest Chartered Architects to establish his own practice, Grant made a decision that many would have questioned. He left school midway through his A-levels to start working, choosing experience over the traditional academic pathway. It wasn’t until the age of 23 that he entered university, proving that success isn’t determined by how early you begin, but by your willingness to keep moving forward. That decision laid the foundation for a career defined by resilience, adaptability, and entrepreneurship. While architecture became the profession he is best known for, it has never been the only chapter in his journey. Over the past 15 years, alongside bu