Entrepreneur · Investor · Business Mentor
Building stronger businesses through practical experience.
More than 20 years in trade-based business, including helping grow a startup operation into a business generating over $30 million in annual turnover.
- Real-world operating experience
- Founder and leadership perspective
- Practical, commercially focused advice
About Matthew
Experience earned by building, not observing.
I have spent more than two decades managing, owning and growing trade-based businesses, navigating the same challenges that confront most business owners: winning work, building capable teams, improving systems, managing cash flow and maintaining profitability through growth.
That journey included helping grow a startup trade business into an operation producing more than $30 million in annual turnover. Along the way, I developed a practical understanding of what enables a business to scale—and what can quietly hold it back.
Today, alongside my ongoing business and investment interests, I am the founder of Growth Reset, a business mentoring and advisory practice helping owners of established trade and service businesses navigate growth, leadership and operational complexity.
“The best business advice is useful on Monday morning—not just impressive in a boardroom.”
Current Ventures
Building, investing in and supporting businesses.
My work spans operating businesses, investment and business advisory, with a focus on building strong, scalable and sustainable companies.
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Amalgamated Group
A diversified Australian trade services group delivering commercial painting, building refurbishment and remedial services across a broad range of commercial sectors.
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Growth Reset
Business mentoring and advisory for ambitious Australian business owners, with a particular focus on established trade and service businesses navigating growth, leadership and operational complexity.
Visit Growth Reset →Areas of Focus
Where experience meets opportunity.
My focus is on building stronger businesses, supporting business owners and identifying opportunities where practical experience can create long-term value.
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Business Growth & Operations
Building scalable businesses through stronger systems, operational discipline, financial visibility and practical growth strategies.
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Leadership & Business Mentoring
Supporting business owners and leaders through the challenges that come with growth, people, decision-making and organisational change.
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Investment & Business Acquisition
Exploring opportunities to invest in or acquire established, profitable businesses with strong foundations and meaningful potential for sustainable growth.
Business Philosophy
Five principles I keep returning to.
Think long term
Good decisions compound. Build for enduring value rather than a short-term result.
Build great people
Businesses improve when their leaders create clarity, trust and accountability.
Create systems
Reliable systems reduce dependence on individuals and make growth repeatable.
Protect cash
Revenue creates excitement, profit creates confidence and cash creates resilience.
Keep improving
Small, consistent improvements are often more valuable than occasional dramatic change.
Insights
Ideas for building stronger businesses.
Why trade businesses plateau
The operating habits that help a business reach its first stage of growth often become the constraints on its next stage.
Discuss this topicMoving beyond founder dependence
Building a capable leadership team is one of the most important—and difficult—transitions for a growing owner-led business.
Discuss this topicProfit is not the same as cash
Growth can consume cash quickly. Strong businesses understand working capital, forecasting and disciplined commercial management.
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Let’s have a practical conversation.
Whether you are working through growth, leadership, systems, investment or your next strategic decision, I would be pleased to hear about the opportunity.