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VentiaBusiness Manager - Governance and Programs
Jun. 2025 - Oct. 2025Australia and New Zealand• My adaptability saw me move to a Chief of Staff role supporting the Group Executive responsible for the Strategy, IT, Marketing, Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs functions, her leadership team and wider team to achieve our teams potential as leaders, enablers and story tellers of Ventia's impact on our customers, employees and communities. • Pioneering use cases of Agentic AI to standardise and simply systems and processes across IT and into the business including working with Microsoft on a CEOLT sponsored project to reduce contract performance variability.
• Fairness, Inclusion and Respect Champion, active contributor to Rainbow and Men’s Health networks, Mentor to emerging leaders and graduates Additionally responsible for the design and delivery of innovative performance and engagement programs building the capacity and capability of a dispersed and diverse team across Australia and New Zealand.
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VentiaGM of Innovation [Acting]
Apr. 2024 - Jun. 2024Australia and New Zealand• Developed a strategic approach to measuring innovation maturity, building innovation capability and creative confidence using applied neuroscience and positive psychology
VentiaHead of Digital Wellbeing and Innovation | CIO50 Team of the Year 2024 for Talent
Aug. 2023 - Jun. 2025Sydney, New South Wales, Australia• Reported to the CIO in a specially created role modelling scalable digital capabilities across AI, data and analytics to lift team performance and retention by overcoming and prevent burnout. Increased team members in very good/excellent health by 150% while reducing burnout by 33%.
• Awarded CIO50 IT Team of the Year in the Talent category for programs designed and delivered around performance, learning and development and leadership
• Developed IT learning plans to uplift diverse capability. Leveraged tech partner relationships in addition to negotiated, onboarding and launching Pluralsight with >90% adoption by the team.
• Developed an AI Literacy program to lift IT and enterprise capability including AI eLearning modules to support the launch of Co-Pilot across the business and embed AI governance models.
University of Technology SydneyLeadership Researcher | Guest Lecturer
Jul. 2023The #1 predictor of leadership success is positive relational energy.
To be published in 2026, my original research has discovered what powers this energy and how this can be implemented via scalable AI into organisations to create more of the leaders the world needs right now.
LearnaLeadership, Team Performance and Wellbeing | Learning Content Creator
Mar. 2023GlobalResearch has found the greatest predictor of your success as a leader will not be your charisma, influence, or power. And I hope you’re not gutted to hear it also won’t be your sparkling personality, attractiveness, or innovative genius. Or anyone else’s. We now know the one thing that will supersede all these factors, is your positive relational energy. This is the energy that is exchanged between you and your people that helps uplift, enthuse, and renew them. I developed and adapted The Energised Leadership training series for micro learning app Learna to make these important skills accessible to more leaders who want to stand out and take charge of their careers. Learn what it takes to be a leader who leaves people more well than you found them.
CuppaLeadership and Team Performance | Online Television Presenter/Host | Expert-In-Residence
Jan. 2023Australia
MedibankPrevention = Performance | Professional Speaker
Aug. 2022AustraliaProud to partner with the Medibank Live Better Program to deliver keynotes and workshops virtually and in person throughout Australia. Here's a snap shot of my speaker bio... "Sean believes that prevention = performance. His lived experience of depression, burnout and anxiety is now a superpower helping workplaces and humans slay the energy vampires that cause burnout, crush creativity and stifle inclusion. With a unique approach that overcomes stigma and makes science accessible, he teaches the skill of ‘Energy Intelligence’ to enable people to immediately apply practical, proven strategies from fields like neuroscience, positive psychology, sleep, growth mindset, nutrition, exercise and mindfulness."
Workplace Mental Health SummitChair
Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2021Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaIntensified by the impacts of COVID-19, the mental health and wellbeing of Australia’s population is highly vulnerable and in steep decline. Three in five workers in Australia experienced a mental health condition in 2020. The Workplace Mental Health Summit is relevant to all businesses, in all industries, making it one of the most important conferences on the calendar this year. I’m humbled to be selected @Akolade to take on the responsibility as the Chair of the conference which has been curated with a stellar line up of experts who are all ‘in the arena’ as @Brene Brown would say. Australia’s leading wellness and mental health champions from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors will gather together in 2021 to share their strategic leadership models and stories of innovative wellness design for the workplace.
Mentally-HealthyThe Business Case For Mental Wellbeing | Founding Member | Mental Health Advocate
Feb. 2019 - Dec. 2020Sydney, AustraliaMentally Healthy is a movement to improve the creative industry’s capacity to cope with and improve our levels of mental health. Mentally Healthy is driven by a passionate group of volunteers who are focused on empowering the creative, media and marketing industry to smash the stigma around mental health. It’s guided by UnLtd, Never Not Creative and Energx who provide resource, leadership and facilitation. My contribution to date has been building and presenting the business case for mental wellbeing to industry leaders and sharing the insights I have garnered from assessing and supporting the wellbeing of over 1000 creative people.
Transition HubAdvisor - Well-Being, Marketing and Experience Design
May. 2018 - Feb. 2020Sydney, AustraliaAs we rethink the relationship between employers and employees, how your people exit your business will become the most important employee and brand experience in every organisation. Transition Hub is a global partnership with WeWork, bringing outplacement out of the dark ages to help people safely and confidently transition to the future of work. Key differentiators of TH are:
· Full-time foundation week - a community, cohort experience, face to face, with a 30 person/5 coach ratio
> 6 weeks of professional development masterclasses linked to the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs for the fourth industrial revolution and to developing an intra/entrepreneurial mindset
> A personal development accelerator, which is the missing piece in the entrepreneurial/start-up/innovation lab landscape
> A place to belong, whilst feeling ‘displaced’ – every WeWork is crucial to this point
> Access to services and networks in each location.
> A dedicated focus on holistic wellbeing
> Most importantly, a positive, uplifting, life-changing experience, as opposed to a lonely, soul-searching dark period of one’s life.
University of SydneyNeuroscience and Psychology of Creativity | Research Collaborator | Workplace Performance
Mar. 2018Sydney, AustraliaThe University of Sydney Business School and Energx share the belief that the most valuable, sustainable and high growth potential resource in an organisation is the collective energy of it's people. Our research partnership with the Body, Heart and Mind in Business Reseach Group led by Dr Stefan Volk, focuses on determining the human and organisational impacts of building energy intelligence. I am also a guest lecturer for the Masters of Marketing program with a focus on developing the skills and energy to be a strategic change agent outside of the marketing silo, connecting employee experience to customer experience and driving employee advocacy.
Remarkable AcceleratorHead of Well-Being
Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2019Sydney, AustraliaSocial impact entrepreneurs are a special breed of people. Driving social change takes a special type of energy. The energy that inspires, builds and focuses collective energy for impact. The energy to energise others often dealing with challenging circumstances daily, and the energy must be sustained for extended periods of time. Energx have partnered with Remarkable to support the well-being and energy of the 2018 cohort. As Head of Founder Wellbeing, I’ll have the privilege of working with each of the startups personally. My job is to help them build the skill of energy intelligence to increase the quantity and quality of energy they have, to do what they do.
EnergxCEO | Leadership and Team Performance | Transformation and Change Capacity | Mental Health
Aug. 2015Australia, USA, UK and EUWe create successful teams by taking the weight off the shoulders of leaders. Crazy idea right? We do this by building the meta-capability of Energy IntelligenceTM which accelerates the capacity and capability of leaders to leave people more well than they found them. 1. More mentally well and intellectually sharp
2. More inclusive and emotionally intelligent
3. More innovative and creative
4. More proactively focused on value creation
5. More confident and connected to purpose Head to energx.com.au by clicking on the link below.
The Marketing AcademyFaculty - Leadership Lecturer, Mentor and Alumni
Mar. 2015GlobalThe Marketing Academy is unmatched in its vision and impact in creating marketing leaders of the future. As a lecturer for the Scholarship program I teach the world's top marketing leadership talent how to elevate and sustain the performance of their teams by becoming an Energized Leader who is capable of leaving their people more well than they found them.
TelstraGeneral Manager - Employee Experience | Organisational Design and Transformation
Jun. 2014 - Jul. 2015Sydney, AustraliaIn 2015, Telstra appeared for the first time in the Millward Brown 2015 BrandZ Top 100 Global Brands as the 9th most valuable telecommunications brand on the planet at just over $12.7B (and ranked 82/100 overall. Key Responsibilities
• Supporting the Group Executive/CHRO to develop the 2020 People Strategy in collaboration with the HR Senior Leadership Team and Telstra Executive Team with the aim of accelerating the delivery of the corporate strategy and creating the structural and cultural conditions on which to reposition Telstra as a growth company in both traditional and adjacent markets.
• Development of the HR positioning, identity and contribution story to the wider business including communicating the HR program of work across disciplines ranging from culture and values to leadership, talent and performance.
• Development of Telstra’s first Employee Experience strategy – a design thinking approach to measurably link the impact of the employee experience on the customer experience.
• Collaborating on the development of the enterprise big data and analytics strategy.
TelstraGeneral Manager - Brand Strategy, Marketing and Channels
May. 2013 - Aug. 2014Growing $2.2B in the FY14 financial year to US$8.3b, Telstra’s brand value has shown the largest growth of any Australian brand. As part of this year’s Brand Finance Global 500, Telstra exceeded the brand value of BHP Billiton. Now the 2nd most valuable Australian brand and ranked a top 20 global telecommunications brand.
TelstraGeneral Manager - Brand Channels
Jan. 2011 - Apr. 2013Sydney, AustraliaThe Telstra brand is one of the most challenging and complex to manage due to the sheer diversity of people, products and services that it touches and the double edged sword that comes with a brand that has a legacy of 100+ years and a relationship with pretty much every Australian. Over 80,000 people domestically and internationally are either direct employees or partners of the Telstra brand. My role carries the responsibility for how the brand is experienced at all external and internal touchpoints. Brand governance and mastery: Continual improvement and management of overall Telstra guidelines covering all business units domestically and internationally. Education of all external and internal users of the brand.
Advocacy building signature experiences: Designing and improving the brand experience across all customer facing channels.
People and culture: Design and delivery of all aspects of working at Telstra including - space and environments, tools and technology and people and culture.
Change management employee engagement: Communicating and driving behavioural change. Strategic partnerships: Identification and management of strategic partnership opportunities including: James Camerons DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition, City of Sydney, Google
Experiential and events: Overall experiential strategy from large multi site activations to regional local events.
Stakeholder management: Effective communication at all levels from frontline and support staff to the executive team and CEOs office.
Leadership: Direct management of a team of 8. Selected for 2012 Top Talent Program.
Agency relationship management: Management of multiple creative agencies on consistent and evolving application of the brand.
TelstraSenior Marketing Manager - Business Brand, Mobility and Cloud
Jun. 2009 - Jan. 2011Key Responsibilities and Achievements
• Management of multiple B2B TTL campaigns (incl. TV through to DM, Digital, Mobile, Retail and LAM) delivered on brief, on time, within budget to deliver business objectives. Responsible for a POW incorporating Telstra Business ‘Brand’, Smartphones/Mobile Plans, Telstra Business Centres and T-Suite® (Cloud Computing). In all, maximising FY09/10 budgets exceeding $10M (incl. media).
• TB Brand TVCs researched significantly above Telstra norms on key indicators.
• Selected for the Future Leaders Initiative. Led project team tasked to research and present recommendations on how to “Optimise telstra.com”. Presentation was awarded first place and presented to the CEO.
TelstraMarketing Manager - Consumer Mobility
Aug. 2008 - Jun. 2009Sydney, Australia2009 iPhone 3G campaign and EasyTouch handset launch achieved 62% and 296% above target respectively.
TelstraMarketing Manager - Segment and Local Area Marketing
Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2008Sydney, AustraliaDelivery of numerous integrated and micro targeted campaigns to acquire and retain customers.
Specific focus on boomers, families and regional Australia.
Les MillsGlobal Marketing Manager
Jun. 2002 - Feb. 2003Auckland, New ZealandKey Responsibilities and achievements:
• Initiated the development of the overall LMI branding strategy and successive product branding strategies.
• Implementation of business plan.
• Development of effective consumer focused through the line advertising materials delivered online to licensees (Business to Business). • Developed relationships with product managers to more effectively communicate their vision.
• Maintain clear communication lines with both internal and external parties.
• Managing agents and licenses expectations and responding to their marketing support requirements.
• Provide ongoing education to agents and licensees re marketing strategies.
Les MillsAsia Pacific Marketing Manager
Feb. 2001 - May. 2002Canberra Area, AustraliaKey Responsibilities and achievements:
• To increase profitability and grow licensee base with limited resources.
• Generation of new sales leads.
• Facilitated branding strategy to increase consumer awareness.
• Successfully introduced BODYJAM® to the market.
• Developed effective advertising and POS materials.
• Introduced and promoted value added services and marketing support materials to improve client satisfaction.
• Wrote, edited and managed the production of three separate quarterly publications.
• Developed and maintained relationships with media to secure PR opportunities.
• Initiated campaigns to build membership bases of licensees through Les Mills affiliation.
• Consulting to clubs and chains with regard to improving profitability. Developing strategy and supervising implementation if required.
• Presentation of marketing and management seminars throughout Australia.
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