Specialised Solutions
I have had the pleasure of working with Sean and mutual clients. Sean is a passionate and inspirational facilitator, business coach and leader. His approach is to develop his clients into autonomous learners. He achieves this through teaching them the skills required to problem solve, not to become dependents. Under Sean’s coaching, clients are encouraged to think...
Donaghue Property Valuations & Consultancy
We recently had a directors retreat with Business By Design in Coffs Harbour . . . Wow! Sean showed us a very different perspective on our business, he didn’t hold back on asking the tough questions and he had us questioning why (a lot). It was the best investment we have made in our business....
Farmers Bakehouse
I’d certainly recommend Business By Design to anyone in business that was considering using a coaching service or a service to improve their business, if they’re at a stage where they’re very operational or they want to grow their business. I certainly got the results from the engagement with Sean and Business By Design.
Resource Design and Management
Sean has been instrumental in assisting the partners at RDM understand the difference between running a ‘practice’ and a ‘Business’. By holding us accountable and guiding steady improvements in core profit drivers like marketing, sales, staff productivity and internal systems we have seen a significant turnaround in morale and profitability over the last 12 months. We understood and accepted...
JTMEC
We engaged the services of Business By Design to assist our business during a significant growth phase. JTMEC operates across most states in Australia and teams do significant travelling, which is a challenge when managing people. When we started coaching, I didn’t realise we had such a big communication problem. It was not long before...
Galambila Aboriginal Health Services Inc
We were having a lot of meetings and not getting a lot of output from them. So, Sean was brought in to look at our meeting rhythm and to introduce a better way to have those meetings…. We still hold to that meetings structure. It’s still a highly successful meeting structure for us. It hasn’t...
Race Central
Sean and the team at Business By Design helped us get clarity with what was an over complicated family business. We now have solid family/business relationships, clearly defined roles and accountability as well as a structured plan with a really clear direction for our business. I encourage other business owners to give it a go, it’s confronting, but gives...
McKemmey & Co
One of Sean’s greatest attributes is that he is not afraid to bring out the tough questions and then bring our team together in a controlled environment to answer these questions. In a business of many and varied personalities, he has kept the family together, put succession/estate planning in place and we all still sit...
Lark Distillery
In my role as GM for The New Zealand Whisky Company I reported into the Board of Directors, on which Sean had a role as an adviser to the Board. His contribution to strategy, finance and especially holding a challenging CEO to account was both highly professional and impressive. Sean asked difficult, pertinent and timely questions to...
Bank of Queensland
Sean is a real driver of change, challenging the status quo, asking the hard questions, and is results oriented. I can recommend Sean to anyone that wants to make fundamental changes to improve their situation, is open to be challenged and is ready to act on those challenges.
Kelly Grains
Sean was engaged as our “business coach” to formalise the structure within the existing business at Kelly Grains with directors & senior staff. His brief was to implement regular reporting by Executive and Departmental mangers with action based meeting outcomes. As a result we now have an improved professional approach to all aspects of the...