Turnaround & Scale Operator

Sean M.
Hogan

COO · CFO · CPO

I build the operational infrastructure that lets mission-driven organizations survive their hardest chapters and scale their best ones. With concurrent C-suite experience across operations, finance, technology, product, and a background in psychology, I bring both the systems thinking and the human insight that lasting growth requires.

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Portrait of Sean M. Hogan, COO, CFO and CPO based in Seattle
3x C-Suite Roles
15+ Years Leading
MA Couns. Psychology

What I Do

Where I Create Value

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Operational Turnaround

Diagnosing broken systems, stabilizing organizations in crisis, and rebuilding the operational foundation for sustainable growth.

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Scale Architecture

Designing the people, process, and financial structures that let growing organizations move fast without breaking what matters.

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Mission Alignment

Translating organizational purpose into operational strategy, ensuring growth serves the mission, not the other way around.

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Financial Leadership

CFO-level financial oversight including budgeting, forecasting, capital allocation, and board-level reporting.

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People & Culture

Building high-trust teams and healthy organizational cultures grounded in clinical insight and hard operational experience.

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Product Operations

Bridging product vision and operational execution, from roadmap to delivery to the systems that keep product teams moving.

Career

Experience

Work

2024

CEO

AIUSA Inc

Fractional chief executive responsible for owning, protecting, and distributing the Alpha film projects for the Alpha movement across the world.

Present

COO / CFO / CPO

Alpha USA

Concurrent C-suite leadership across operations, finance, product, and technology at a national faith-based organizational network. Led organizational turnaround and built scalable infrastructure for sustained mission impact.

Prior

Senior Consultant

Microsoft

Delivered enterprise-scale consulting engagements focused on organizational transformation and operational strategy.

Prior

Consultant

Accenture

Built foundational consulting experience across complex, multi-stakeholder operational engagements.

Education

In Progress

DBA Candidate

Durham University

Doctoral research at the intersection of leadership, organizational health, and human systems.

Graduate

MA, Counseling Psychology

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology

Graduate study in counseling psychology, organizational dynamics, and the human dimensions of leadership.

Undergrad

BS, Business Systems

Taylor University, Upland, Indiana

Perspectives

Writing & Thought Leadership

Operations

Why Most Turnarounds Fail Before They Start

The operational mistakes that doom organizational recovery efforts, and the diagnostic framework I use instead.

Leadership

The Hidden Cost of the Heroic Leader

How over-reliance on a single leader creates the fragility that eventually breaks mission-driven organizations.

Culture

Building Teams That Don't Need You

What clinical psychology taught me about organizational dependency, and how to build cultures that outlast their founders.

Finance

The CFO Mindset Every COO Needs

Why operators who don't think in financial terms eventually become the bottleneck they were hired to remove.

Let's Talk

Get in Touch

I'm selectively available for executive roles, board advisory work, and fractional engagements with organizations navigating significant growth or transition.

in linkedin.com/in/seanmhogan @ sean@seanmhogan.com + Seattle, WA