About Sean Linehan
Growth & Enterprise Value Advisor. Creator of the Growth-to-Value Audit.
Talk to Sean about your businessThe perspective behind the Audit
Sean has spent more than 25 years building businesses, creating routes to market, developing teams and helping organisations navigate change.
That experience sits behind a particular interest: the value that remains tied to founders, individual relationships, specialist knowledge and informal processes, even inside successful companies.
The Growth-to-Value Audit connects those questions across 13 dimensions. It brings the conversation back to what would make this a stronger, more resilient and more valuable company, whether or not a sale is part of the owner’s ambition.
Experience, applied
At Informotion, Sean led UK go-to-market strategy, bringing market positioning, partner engagement and sales discipline together around Microsoft technologies, AI readiness and information governance.
For an owner, the relevant question is whether a strong capability has become a clear proposition and a repeatable commercial engine.
Sean attended London Business School studying strategy, market positioning, finance, company valuation, innovation and company analysis.
This supports a view that connects commercial decisions to the wider economics and direction of the business.
Sean published his After Action Review guide in April 2024, exploring how teams can learn from projects and initiatives before committing to the next one.
The same discipline informs the Audit: examine what happened, test assumptions and carry useful learning into the next decision.
Career and education details are drawn from Sean’s LinkedIn profile.
“Sean was immensely valuable to me and my business, Legion, in helping to reshape the GTM strategy and then sharpen some of our sales skills. He is easy to work with, refreshingly forthright and keen to build long term relationships.”
“Sean is a strategic thinker whose skills are very useful to founders and CXOs who are driving change and troubleshooting growth challenges across their organization or in sales and marketing. As a senior consultant, he listens to problems and asks all the right questions - eventually helping the client to organically arrive at a hypothesis and an action plan.”
“What sets Sean apart is his excellent planning and communication skills along with a rapid understanding of the issues to be addressed. Sean consistently kept everyone aligned, fostering an environment of transparency and collaboration. Sean proved adept at articulating complex ideas in a way that is easy to understand, which greatly enhanced a wider team cohesion and performance.”
“Sean is one of those rare people who combine an infectious enthusiasm with an incisive approach that quickly gets to the heart of the challenge and what needs to be done. Working with him for the first time it was immediately obvious that he was on top of his brief, asking all the right searching questions of us.”
“Sean combines strategic thinking with practical execution.”
You do not need a large-company consulting programme. You need to understand the important constraints in the company you actually own.
The Audit is designed for established founder-owned businesses. Sean works directly with the owner and relevant leaders to connect commercial, operating and financial evidence, then concentrate attention on a small number of consequential decisions.
Explore the full 13-dimension framework ↗The next decision starts here
A 30-minute Growth-to-Value Conversation with Sean to explore what has changed, what matters and whether a full Audit is justified.
Request your 30-minute conversationOpens an email to Sean. Suggest a time and the question on your mind.
sean@seanlinehan.uk