Stephen Lea Email & Phone Number

Queensland, Australia

Business Growth Consulting - assisting companies to grow faster following in depth consultation.- I have sold luxury apartments in the Jewel/Langham precincts (Built stock)- Capri Residences (48 villas) project selling over 50% within a 3-month period (Off

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Transforming the Real Estate business.....eXp, the first agent-owned, NASDAQ listed (EXPI) cloud-based real estate business and one of the fastest growing residential property businesses on the planet has expanded into Australia.Back in early 2018 I came across eXp Realty and immediately thought.... “If ever this company comes to Australia they’ll do really well”. Following this revelation, I reached out to the US parent company, we liked each other, I offered to write the business plan, but the US were not ready. Accelerate forward to early 2019 and I got the call from the US saying, “We are ready Stephen, are you still interested”? without hesitation I said yes and formally commenced building the company from scratch from May 2019. eXp Australia currently operate in 5 x Australian states and has over 300 agents working with them.eXp is a rapidly growing cloud-based real estate company with over 85,000 agents internationally, and now across more than 25 countries, including the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Mexico, South Africa, India, Portugal, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Italy, Hong Kong, Spain, Colombia, Israel, Panama, Germany and Japan and more and is changing the game for agents and consumers alike. It has been exciting to support and collaborate this international expansion in all of these new countries.This accomplishment is significant when you consider a mere 25 agents jumped on board back in October 2009 when Glenn Sanford, Founder and CEO of eXp World Holdings had the idea of a cloud-based brokerage.

Sydney, Australia

I am honoured to be joining John McGrath and his amazing team to assist in growing the business across Sydney and Queensland. I am looking forward to meeting talented, professional agents on their real estate journey and exploring how we can work together.

Main Beach, Queensland, Australia

Joining Queensland Sotheby’s International Realty I was honoured to represent one of the most prestigious brands in the world as Director - Recruitment & Talent Acquisition. I love meeting with real estate business owners and sales professionals on their forward-looking journey and exploring how Queensland Sotheby's International Realty may be able to assist them on that journey. • In the short time I was with the company I secured several existing businesses and sales professionals to become Queensland Sotheby’s International Realty.• Secured an established independent business of 10 years and securing an Alliance Agreement to re-brand, becoming Queensland Sotheby’s International Realty.• Brought on board 2 Senior Sales Executives in key areas• Established an “India Desk” to facilitate transactional business between our respective countries.• New North Gold Coast office being established via a JV encompassing a team of 6+ super successful agents.• New South Gold Coast office being established via a JV encompassing a team of 5+ super successful agents.

Queensland & Northern Nsw

As Business Growth Manager for RE/MAX Australia, I can deliver on the company’s mission: ‘To create and facilitate the experience of unlimited opportunities in the property industry and allied services. Everybody wins.’

Australia

Establishing and building the value proposition for Coldwell Banker Australia to facilitate the foundations for growth.

Sydney, Australia

Stakeholder Relationship Manager, Enterprise & Stakeholder DevelopmentI was responsible for the start up of the social enterprise development division for this large welfare service provider.At Wesley Mission I was responsible for establishing partnerships with large corporations to assist them to achieve their corporate social responsibility goals. Through "Shared Value" principals I worked with our internal stakeholders across the entire Wesley Mission organisation to ensure that our wide and diverse range of services could align with the shared values of my corporate clients.Responsibilities – Establish positive stakeholder relationships with churches, corporate organisations, government agencies and other external organisations. Identify key strategic partnership opportunities and develop them into collaborative relationships delivering business targets and objectives. My key achievements at Wesley Mission• Establishing a comprehensive solution offering a “one stop corporate social responsibility shop” that would engage and assist large organisations and help them to achieve their corporate social responsibility goals. • I achieved a shared value solution with a large property company that would enable the creation of a community hub within one of NSW’s premier town centres, the contract is for 20 years and with a value worth several million $, plus the ensuing community value derived from the creation of the hub.• Developed Wesley Mission’s corporate suppliers into corporate partnerships leading to added value, in some cases worth over $1m.

Sydney (Nsw)

As Business Development Consultant I was part of a team that brings on board new business owners and consults with existing franchise owners and sales associates, empowering them to achieve business mastery and increase profitability. My primary area of focus was the Greater Sydney market.The new vision that came with the Australian and New Zealand regional ownership change in 2012 led to RE/MAX in these countries now offering industry-leading training, technology and support for its clients, the franchise owners.

United Kingdom

On arriving back in the UK in June 2009 my wife and I wanted to complete some life goals by working within a context to be able to help others. To this end we established a consultancy based company focusing on the needs of the wider UK education, church and charity sectors. We also established a national fundraising program enabling fundraising via everyday spending for charities, the education sector (schools etc.) religious communities and membership organisations.December 2009 - Contracted as Business Development Consultants by the Catholic Church of England & Wales to establish a new national collaborative purchasing program (organisation) that would facilitate any Catholic organisation (church, school or agency) being able to buy products or services at nationally negotiated rates. The project was initially managed and coordinated by our consultancy and included a high level of national collaborative discussion with key stakeholders, the identification, subsequent selection and contracting of product category suppliers. The organisation developed to become known as www.churchmarketplace.org.uk which now has key suppliers in place for many product & service categories serving the church’s main consumables.Business Development Consultant - The Consortium Following the award of the Church Marketplace contract to The Consortium (Education supplier of the year) - www.theconsortium.co.uk Our consultancy was invited to set up a new division to service the contract awarded by the Catholic Church of England & Wales and which could also subsequently service the entire UK church sector. This new division delivered in excess of £1.4 million in its first 12 months.

Brisbane, Australia

I was invited to join this major organisation as their Director for Development to create and execute a far -reaching plan that would transform and traverse across all sectors of the organisation. My role was very diverse as my projects spanned all segments of this large geographically dispersed organisations future development. This included some non-traditional marketing and equity acquisition as well as; product development and management, corporate and government relationships, branding operations, capital appeals, major gifts, Legacy’s, events, and supporter care programs.

Brisbane, Australia

Major successes• I established a completely new franchising system for Knight Frank through an industry first and more acceptable licensing system that saw new Partners (not franchisees) thriving as Knight Frank offices and working as partners with corporate owned offices throughout Australia.• I recruited and established several new regionally based Partners, and established Knight Frank within New Zealand, most notable being a joint venture/partner agreement with a substantial New Zealand based organisation.

Gold Coast / Brisbane

Major successes• From start up I recruited and established 7 new franchisees (Partners) within a period of 12 months, with forecasted revenue of $10 million in royalty fees over the contracted period of 7 years.• Whilst Coldwell Banker Australia was a relatively new start up company in Australia it was part of one of the most recognised, respected and professional real estate referral networks in the world. Coldwell Banker Real Estate was ranked as the Number 1 in Real Estate and number 8 overall Franchise networks worldwide.

Brisbane, Australia

Major successes• I created a new franchise system for the company and then established 3 new offices which were forecasted to produce over $3 million in franchise fees over the term of the agreement.• Responsibility for developing (increasing revenue) existing franchise offices throughout Queensland.• Identify and recruit new franchisees for the company• To design, document and implement a new franchise system for the company.• To establish strategic relationships with major 3rd party service providers who will add value to the franchise system.

Melbourne, Australia

I was appointed in June 2001 to provide my Sales & Marketing experience to key areas of their business, these include:• I establishing relationships and incremental revenue of several $million from more than 70% of the major real estate groups in Australia.• Responsibility for establishing and developing key relationships with Australia's major Real Estate groups.• Obtain agreement from these key Real Estate groups for realestate.com.au to provide services to their offices across Australia• To implement and project manage sales campaigns to these groups via a national sales force, to achieve sales revenue goals• Establish strategic relationships with major 3rd party players in the real estate market and identify, establish and create sales revenue via these relationships.

Education record

Prestige Property Sales

Distinction, Franchising And Franchise Operations