Sean Wilson

Sean Wilson is an Australian CEO and Group Executive with over 20 years’ experience leading complex, multi-entity organisations and divisions in up to 10-figure enterprises, to achieve their mission, delivering sustainable growth, financial stability, enterprise transformation, and disciplined value creation with full P&L accountability.

He holds qualifications across business, governance, marketing, HR, legal services and technology disciplines and has been admitted to multiple professional bodies. 

He has served in board-appointed CEO and Managing Director roles for over a decade, including BetterHR, Zonda and the Kolling Foundation, with proven success delivering on strategic direction, major corporate and capital decisions, and mission critical objectives across SaaS, HR, healthcare, recruitment, regulated services, retail and member-based organisations.

He has also held Group Executive roles, frequently wearing multiple hats and operating successfully across multiple portfolios to reach and exceed targets. These include Chief Technology & Product Officer and HR Director at BetterHR, National General Manager Sales & Marketing at The Housing Industry Association, National Sales Director at Sensis, Senior Advisor to a Member of Parliament and IT Manager for a government authority.

His early career across HR, sales & marketing and technology gives him an uncommon cross-functional fluency to connect people, revenue, and systems at the executive level.

He has founded and successfully exited multiple businesses, such as ITBIZ, Streetwise and Froggys, and has mentored numerous entrepreneurs in building, operating and scaling profitable enterprises.

He has scaled complex organisations, led national divisions within 10-figure enterprises, held P&L accountability up to $85m+, built multi-million-dollar new businesses from scratch, led product creation, turnarounds and transformations, delivered ACV and ARR growth, margin expansion, and exit-ready operating models.

His edge is combining pace with judgement. He identifies inflection points early, acts decisively, and moves fast without being reactive. Reducing false moves, accelerating alignment, and lifting execution quality. He brings an adaptable leadership style, with a strong ability to read the operating environment, and calibrate decision-making, communication, pace and governance to organisational maturity, risk profile and leadership capability. He makes disciplined calls on capital, people and priorities while building leadership teams and operating models that scale.

He operates with an owner’s mindset, equally comfortable in CEO and Group Executive roles, partnering with peers and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels to deliver growth, transformation, operational excellence, and capital-disciplined value creation.  He is typically engaged when growth has stalled, complexity has accumulated, or an organisation requires stabilisation, professionalisation and positioning for its next phase of scale, integration or exit.

He has served on multiple boards and committees, and in office bearer roles for over a decade (Chair, Company Secretary, Public Officer). He also has a long-standing commitment to community service, contributing volunteer leadership, governance and hands-on support to help others.

If you are seeking a proven CEO, Group Executive or Board Member, to help scale performance, manage risk, and strengthen enterprise value, contact Sean Wilson.

Flagship CEO & Group Executive Proof

• CEO & Managing Director for BetterHR.

• CEO & Managing Director for Kolling Foundation at Royal North Shore Hospital.

• CEO for Private Equity (Zonda Global, Zonda Care, Marine Seven, etc).

• CEO for ITBIZ (Founded and sold for a profit).

• Acting CEO for Image Training Systems/Sales Cybernetics.

• Acting CEO for Image Book Company/Brian Adams Group.

• Group Chief Operating Officer at Venturely.

• Chief Technology & Product Officer for BetterHR.

• Commercial Director for Sharing Minds.

• HR Director for BetterHR.

• National General Manager Sales & Marketing for The Housing Industry Association.

• National Sales Director for Sensis.

• Senior Advisor to a Member of Parliament

• IT Management roles in government.

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Board & Governance Proof

He's served on over 20 boards and committees (business, government and not for proft), and held office bearer roles for over 10 years (Chair, Company Director, Company Secretary, Public Officer).

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