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Sean Wilson is a C-Suite & Board Executive. He leads turnarounds, growth & value creation.
He's led organisations and business groups across private, NFP, and government sectors, with full P&L accountability to $85m. He's scaled and optimised national operations of 300+ staff across 20+ sites, repeatedly driving growth, performance uplift, and value creation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. He's founded and sold businesses, served on boards and committees, and has a long-standing commitment to community initiatives.
He is typically brought in to stabilise, scale or reposition underperforming or inflecting organisations by lifting commercial performance, aligning operations and unlocking new growth.
His work sits at the intersection of commercial strategy, technology optimisation, and human resources leadership. Whether driving strong revenue growth, rebuilding a high-performance team, scaling a new division, or turning around a national business, I’m drawn to high-stakes environments where clarity, structure, and execution make the difference.
His edge is combining pace with judgement. He identifies inflection points early, acts decisively, and moves fast without being reactive. This reduces false moves, accelerates alignment, and lifts execution quality. He operates with an owner’s mindset, equally comfortable leading as CEO or as part of a high-performing executive team. He is motivated by outcomes, not ego.
His qualifications span business, governance, technology, HR, legal services, training and director certification. He has also been admitted to professional bodies such as the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Governance Institute of Australia, Australian HR Institute and Information Technology Professionals Association.
Key Impact
Zonda & Marine Seven (Group CEO) – Led $20m+ multi-entity portfolio across national healthcare staffing & recruitment, NDIS services and multi-site marine retail. Delivered 12-month strategic and operational targets in half the planned timeframe. Positioned portfolio assets for successful exit. Zonda Global - Transformed losses to 34% gross profit, delivered double digit revenue growth. Zonda Care - Resolved major compliance risks, increased revenue by double digits and positioned for successful sale. Marine Seven - Lifted operational efficiency across national retail group, integrated 5 acquisitions, grew forecast annual revenue by double digits. Venturely (Group COO) - Led national managed services team (IT, HR, marketing, sales, etc).
Housing Industry Association (GM) – Led $85m commercial group for a national peak body. Transformed declining membership into growth and expanded to 50,000+ members, grew training to 500+ courses and 8,000+ participants, increased apprentices to 600+, led successful national enterprise transformation across 23 sites.
Sharing Minds – Built AIIM legal tech division from 0 to $1m revenue in 6 months. Signed up over 1000 licenced users. Delivered 12-month strategic and operational targets in half the planned timeframe, including profitability in year one through disciplined pricing, cost control and GTM design.
BetterHR (CEO, COO, CTPO) – Led multi-million-dollar national HR and employment law services organisation. Doubled revenue and gross profit, scaled platform to 60,000+ users, and increased enterprise value 250%+ over 7 years, funded entirely through internal cashflow, secured long-term strategic alliances: Telstra, ADP Payroll, franchise groups & industry bodies. Earned significant equity ownership through value creation. Led buyer narrative for successful exit.
Sensis (Telstra Group) – Led multi-million-dollar national sales group for a 10-figure enterprise. Delivered 200%+ to target year on year, grew several accounts to $1m+, setup a new national team to improve sales and service delivery for over 5,000 government accounts. Worked closely with the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet to develop and roll out a mandatory, consistent branding policy. Representative at National Press Club for 2 years.
ColorTile - Led multi-million-dollar sales and marketing group. Delivered double digit growth across retail showrooms, trade customers, project builder partners and major projects division.
He has developed a reputation for recognising patterns of organisational performance and disruption that repeat across industry sectors:
Technology & SaaS
HR and recruitment
Media and commercial services
Retail and omnichannel
Government and not-for-profit
Strengths include:
scaling multi-site / distributed operations
lifting underperforming assets
aligning commercial + stakeholder complexity
monetising customer / member ecosystems
If you're looking for a CEO / Executive to focus on growth, turnaround and value creation in a complex, service-led organisation - particularly across tech-enabled services, retail/omnichannel and member-based sectors - I'm open to a conversation.
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