Sean Sullivan

Professional Turnaround Director,

Recovering Value and Standards

Multi-award winning turnaround professional

Assisting UK and International organisations, frequently with significant infrastructure in the community

Sean Sullivan

Senior leadership experience at major UK and international corporates and as a multiple Turnaround Chair, CEO and CRO.

A postgraduate scientist, voted by industry as the 2014 UK Turnaround Practitioner of the Year, in 2018 winning Public Sector Turnaround of the Year and again in 2021 as Independent Turnaround Advisor of the Year.

Fellow of The Institute for Turnaround

Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine

Morston Ltd

UK commercial services company through which fully insured and independent turnaround services are contractually delivered via Letter of Engagement.

Clients can be company or bank side.

Detailed T&Cs apply to all assignments.

Services

I steer organisations through key phases often involving foreshortened timescales, imperfect histories with financial and media risks

I act for owners, shareholders, creditors, regulators and government departments.

Interim Leadership

I join an organisation as Chair or CEO to quickly provide stabilising leadership during key phases.
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Turnaround

Acting for stakeholders I have an outstanding record of delivering turnarounds for a wide variety of public and private sectors.

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Advisory

I work with client boards to identify and create new strategic paths, followed by coaching management to achieve targets.
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What our clients have to say

He was always professional and undoubtably helped the business through what has been its most challenging period.

Sean quickly became well known across the various sites and functions, which enabled him to understand at a granular level where the blockages and potential solutions in the organisation might lie.

Sean has been a pleasure to work with. His professional approach and accessibility throughout and the new skills he brought to our network have transformed our approach to dealing with financial challenges.

He bought a renewed structure and energy to the board at a time when the business was in need of constructive challenge and support.

Sean has razor sharp perception of spotting organisational talent and nurturing groups of individuals to achieve their optimum performance.

This was an outstanding achievement and I would like to commend Sean for the work that he did.

Sean provided seasoned credibility in managing our advisors and stakeholders through this process to an eventual successful sale.

Sean has made sure that he has assisted us with a light touch wherever possible to make difficult situations more bearable.

His faith in the quality of our deliverables was motivating to the other board members and, although his role was independent, we felt his challenges were to support the prosperity and future growth of the organisation.

Communication is a great strength of Sean's and he made sure throughout his time with us that everyone, from Trustees to front-line employees, understood what was happening and why. He built good and constructive relations with staff, senior staff in particular, and because of this they have willingly followed his lead.

Sean's contribution to this outcome has been outstanding. The organisations he has helped will long benefit from what he has brought to them.

During this time I found his performance and competency exemplary and I would not hesitate to recommend him.

Sean supported us at meetings with civil servants, providing robust and credible analysis and comment.

Sean led the turnaround programme, identifying and monitoring a range of detailed initiatives through fortnightly meetings with the senior management team and frequent informal meetings with executive and non-executive directors.

The Board's major concerns of over a thousand vacancies, low activity volumes and £60m of temporary staff expenditure have finally started to be addressed with innovation driven by Sean.

As Chair I am particularly thankful for his behind the scenes work in assisting with the coaching and reshaping of our executive management team and his inclusion of the NEDs into this process.

Sean led the team through this difficult period of Covid restrictions, furlough and workforce downsizing as well as overseeing a restructuring.

...has been able to lead and knit the existing management team together....over what turned out to be one of the most challenging times in UK business history.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

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