Antony Baker · December 26, 2025

Podcast: Living the Dream with Curveball
December 26, 2025 · 44 min
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Founder & CEO of FIFTEEN — Rebuilding Trust and Transparency in the Business of Talent
World Champion WindsurferProfessional MMA fighterFounder & CEO 15.Group15% Transparent talent model
Antony Baker has spent his career questioning how business really works when trust, transparency, and talent are treated as more than buzzwords. Before founding FIFTEEN, he led high-performance teams across financial services, compliance, fintech, and crypto, discovering again and again that most organisations struggled not with strategy, but with people.
That realisation inspired FIFTEEN: a network built to replace the traditional consulting model with something faster, fairer, and human. Through a transparent 15% model, a vetted community of top-tier professionals, and an AI-driven platform that matches projects in days, Antony’s team helps businesses deploy expertise with measurable outcomes.
Underpinning it all is Adoniss AI, FIFTEEN’s quiet engine that handles the heavy lifting of matching, tracking, and forecasting. But for Antony, technology is only as valuable as the community it serves. The company’s mission—transparency, trust, transformation—reflects his conviction that business should reward openness, not opacity.
His own path has been shaped by resilience and reinvention. A former elite athlete, Antony brings the same discipline and curiosity that once drove him in the ring and on the water to how he builds companies and people. A late ADHD diagnosis reframed his perspective on focus and leadership, and he now speaks candidly about performance, adaptability, and the human side of growth.
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In this dynamic episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, we are excited to featureAntony Baker, founder and CEO of 15 Group. With a rich background that spans elite athletics and various business sectors, Antony shares his remarkable journey from world champion windsurfer and mixed martial artist to a leader in the consulting industry. He candidly discusses how his upbringing and experiences shaped his understanding of talent, trust, and transparency in business. Antony emphasizes the importance of people over strategy, revealing how he built his company on the principles of community-driven solutions and high performance. Listeners will gain valuable insights into the challenges of hiring and the pitfalls businesses often encounter, as well as the transformative power of AI in optimizing operations. Antony also opens up about his ADHD diagnosis and how it has become a superpower in his leadership style. Join us for an engaging conversation that inspires you to rethink your approach to business and personal growth. Discover more about Antony and his work at www.15group.com.
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