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About Bruce

Inspiring leaders and managers to build champion teams and customers for life.

As a five time CEO and current Company Chairman and Director, Bruce is a proven transformation leader with extensive experience across a range of industries including real estate, media, financial services, technology and retail. He is a passionate leader of change, and he believes that better leadership is critical to improving business performance through people.

His various achievements include:

  • Led real estate giant Colliers out of the 1990’s property recession;
  • In six months took a single product from losing $600,000 per year to a $2.2 million profit;
  • Also led Kerry Packer’s ACP Media, and iconic NZ company Canterbury International;
  • Oversaw the largest debt restructure in NZ corporate history – $1.8 billion at Yellow Pages Group;
  • Has made over 2,000 speeches and presentations in NZ, Australia, Asia, UK and USA.

Bruce is now a professional director with a portfolio comprising six boards, is a highly regarded advisor to business leaders, and is one of Australasia’s leading conference keynote speakers.

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    The best leaders don’t shout

    How to engage your people, manage millennials and get things done.

    In The Best Leaders Don’t Shout five time CEO Bruce Cotterill shares the lessons he learned fixing broken businesses and rebuilding shattered teams. In this jargon free book and enlightened pathway to improving business performance, Bruce tells memorable stories and shares simple tools, lists and templates, summaries and questions that will help everyone from CEOs to team leaders to build better workplaces, more engaged teams, and happier customers.

    Once you read this book, you’ll want a copy for each and every person on your leadership team. Your people will thank you, and so will your customers, and bank manager.

    This is a very powerful book filled with laser-focused insights on how to lead an organisation to great success. It is one of the few business books I would consider a must read.

    John Spence – USA Top 100 Business Thought Leader

    OveR 5000 copies sold IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Do you aspire to be a better leader?  purchase your copy today.

    Doesn’t matter whether you’ve been in real estate 6 months or 6 years, there’s a huge amount you can take from this.

    David Annan - Director James Group
    David Annan - Director

    A must attend, simply brilliant!

    Paul Barnes, Director / Chief Operations Officer FoxPlan Ltd
    Paul Barnes, Director / Chief Operations Officer

    I learnt a great deal out of the two days especially from Bruce’s stories. I walked around and talked to over 40 team members 4-5pm today. Feeling 10 feet tall and that’s actually one of the most enjoyable part of my career with ANZ to date.

    Jack Hou, Head of Asian/Migrant Bank, Retail & Business Banking Central ANZ Bank
    Jack Hou, Head of Asian/Migrant Bank, Retail & Business Banking Central

    This course was enlightening, informative and a shot in the arm I needed. I feel I’m better armed after completing this course to tackle the daily challenges of managing people and building a profitable business. Bruce Cotterill is a fantastic speaker and I would recommend to any organisation that wants to succeed in business.

    Lucky Lopesi, NI Operations Manager Move Logistics
    Lucky Lopesi, NI Operations Manager

    As I mentioned to you when we spoke at conference, I found you to be very inspirational. I have implemented many of your principles back in my store and had great success. Every staff member is working towards the same goal, and we have a quick meeting every morning to reinstate the day’s objectives. As managers we know that simplicity is the key to running an effective business but we tend to over complicate things and end up getting confused about our focus, not to mention staff getting confused as well. Listening to you speak, it made me remember why keeping it simple is so important and reinstating that daily with your principles has been an enormous help to me since conference.

    Lenice Reid, Store Manager Radio Rentals
    Lenice Reid, Store Manager

    We used Lisa and her in depth knowledge in November 2017 at our executive refocus days to review where our organisational culture had got to and where next to go. It was a great experience all round and brought clarity to our thinking. Bravo !

    Leanne Mash - CEO Central Otago District Council
    Leanne Mash - CEO

    Great session on leadership and how to get the best our of your people. Highly recommended!

    David Latu, Rooms Division Manager The Heritage Hotel
    David Latu, Rooms Division Manager

    As my business coach Lisa challenged me and the beliefs that were holding me back, helped me understand how to use my strengths and talents best, and introduced me to highly practical and effective strategies which we introduced in my business – without taking any unnecessary risks. My life and my business transformed, and I went from struggling to keep my business open to selling it for a healthy profit, starting another business, and retiring. I always felt that Lisa truly cared about what I wanted, and what was important to me. Outstanding.

    Noel Johnston - Business Owner MTF Dunedin
    Noel Johnston - Business Owner

    Heard Lisa speak and to say it resonated was an understatement! Love your thinking and approach Lisa – thanks for sharing!

    Carol Brown - CEO Diversitas and RoleWorks
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