Michael Norton

Michael has over 30 years of business management, corporate governance, new business development, and business consulting experience. This experience has been in a multitude of industries including ICT, Retail, Wholesale, Hospitality, and Business Services. Michael has worked in senior management roles within a number of high profile multinational organisations including Fujitsu, Acer, KPMG, Western Computers, and NCS.

Michael has achieved significant results within all roles he has fulfilled. Some highlights include;

• Successfully led a team of 28 staff in a General Management capacity increasing overall sales and turning a trading loss into double digit profitability through sales restructuring and operating cost reduction.
• Instrumental in the tender development and winning of a 3,800 site ICT contract with Telstra and Australia Post.
• Responsible for the restructuring of a number of $5.0 Million plus organisations facing receivership with the achievement of a profitable sale in each case.
• Developed and implemented strategies for large account ICT bids that saw the successful winning of 22 government and semi government contracts.
• Fulfilled a key strategic management role that established and managed a complex dealer and distributor network generating ICT sales in excess of $12.0 Million per annum. 

Some more recent results achieved as a coach and consultant with ABC include the fulfilment of the role of General Manager for a national mechanical engineering company, mentoring a large mortgage brokerage firm to become the number 1 broker within the national franchise, and fulfilling a role of board director and advisor to a national shopfitting organisation and assisting them to grow their organisation net worth significantly over a 3 year period.
 

Contact Michael:
Ph: +61 (0) 7 3103 0406