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BUSINESS OWNERS GROWTH CHALLENGES

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Your challenge

Small Business Owner

...wanting to break the $1 million turnover milestone

Medium Business Owner / CEO

...wanting to focus on growth

Large Scale CEO

...needing to develop managers

Building your team

Business leaders who want to recruit the right person for the job

Our solution

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Business Leaders Program

You have graduated from start up, your business has growing pains and you are juggling all the responsibilities

There are over 2 million business across Australia, yet only 300,000 break the $1 million turnover milestone.

Our business leaders program will unlock the growth opportunities and put energy back into your business.

Learn more about Business Leaders Program

Business Coaching

Looking to outsource critical business management tasks?

Need to improve your business systems to assist business growth?

There are over 2 million businesses across Australia, yet only 10,000 break the $10 million turnover milestone.

Learn more about Business Coaching

Leadership Academy

With the right systems and the right people, large scale businesses have limitless potential. The key is nurturing the capability within the team. Ultimately your business will become more efficient, more easily adaptable to changing market and competitive positions.

  • Resolve issues that have been preventing it from reaching its goals
  • Introduce a more effective management and leadership style
  • Build and action oriented culture
  • Ensure effective leaders that embrace new ways of thinking and behaving
  • Enjoy the positive results of removing inhibitors to your business
  • Be confident in dealing with the inevitable challenges that will arise
Learn more about Leadership Academy

Harrison Assessments Program & Recruitment Services

Having the right people in your team is integral to growing your business no matter what the scale. This growth occurs through tapping into the potential of your current team or recruiting the right new staff member. Regardless of your talent management strategry, without a comprehensive profiling and recruitment system, you rish appointing the wrong person, which is a significant cost to the business.

Learn more about Recruitment & Talent Management

Business Coaching & Consulting Services

Looking for sustainable profit and growth solutions for your business?

Look no further. At Business By Design we work with business owners, entrepreneurs, and managers to deliver systems and tools that provide long term profit, growth and balance. Our boutique management consultancy is based in Coffs Harbour on the beautiful mid-north coast of NSW. Our team has coached and mentored business owners and senior executives across Australia and internationally since 1995, advising and helping to implement strategy and business development programs. 

We have a track record exceeding two decades of coaching and advising business owners, CEO’s and executive teams in diverse industry segments (agribusiness, retail, manufacturing, professional services, forestry, construction and export) with varying mandates (turnaround, growth, profit improvement, business process re-design, change, business recovery, generational succession, mergers & acquisitions, exits).

Multi-generational family owned business is also a speciality. The unique challenge of these businesses is a particular focus of Sean Martyn and his team. We are passionately committed to the personal and professional development of our clients. This has seen our client relationships span decades and carry onto a 2nd generation.
At Business By Design we work with business owners, entrepreneurs & managers who want to get the most out of their business by designing a enterprise that can 'scale up' and 'thrive'.

Free guide The Profit Booster

The Business GPS

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TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

In our first meeting Sean showed me how we could immediately earn another $48,000 profit. Pretty handy return on three hours work! Two months later we took it further and added a further $58,000. Everyone needs  advice like this!!! 


Grant Nicholas - WEBWORX

Sean was instrumental in kick starting a succession plan for the business. The process resulted in appointing new Business and Construction Managers, enabling me to step out of those roles and really focus on growing and developing the business. Engaging Business By Design was definitely a step in...


Ben Charnock - XCORP Building Services

Sean cost me less than a first year apprentice and he has helped me double my turnover and triple my profit...most apprentices won't do that!


Murray Binet - BINET Constructions

Throughout the Covid19 pandemic all of us have accomplished so many things that I wouldn't have thought possible. We have added new products to take advantage of people looking to second source away from China, scaled up our order processing and recruited more staff to cater for increased orders.


John Clark - Ant Packaging

I employed the services of Business by Design twelve months ago wanting an experienced business coach as a sounding board for me and my business, quality time with my children, to work on my business not in it 24/7, WHS/OH&S systems, confidence with reading business reports with an understanding...


Carol Cowling - Cowlings R&R Carpets

"I was fortunate to attend one of Sean's 2 day Leadership Development workshops during November 2018. His material was first rate, with a perfect balance between leading-edge emerging leadership insights and solid, practical, tried and true approaches. Sean was able to engage the entire audience, from...


Russell Wood - Continuous Improvement Consulting
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COUNTERS

30+

Years Coaching

401

Growing Businesses

24

Current Clients

2712

Workshop Participants

SUCCESS STORIES

SUCCESS STORIES

 … my business has become solid again and I have a future plan that I can work towards and achieve

…we have now diversified our business, and feel secure about the future of both generations

The main challenge in succession planning is maintaining a commercial perspective while also maintaining personal considerations

. . . things started to change – immediately!

… I now enjoy more control over the business, better margins and much more confidence about the future

…we have now diversified our business, and feel secure about the future of both generations

…we have a new business mindset and now we have great results

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Awards

AWARDS

Mindshop Award – 2016 Growth & Excellence Award

Mindshop Award – 2016 Growth & Excellence Award

Mindshop Award – 2016 Growth & Excellence Award

Sunny’s Business Award – 2016 Excellence in Innovation

Sunny’s Business Award – 2016 Excellence in Innovation

NSW Business Chamber Regional Finalist

NSW Business Chamber
Regional Finalist

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