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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.

    Amazing, 90 minutes of informative, inspirational, engaging and very practical presentation … your stories are certainly excellent teaching tools.

    Lynn Lawton, Manager The Depot Artspace
    Lynn Lawton, Manager

    Working with Lisa helped us identify opportunities, and things our team were willing and able to develop and contribute to the business. Without her contribution we would have no idea these opportunities existed. As an added bonus even the most sceptical of the staff valued and enjoyed the process. Her process and outcome suggestions also helped dissolve hierarchies so management could be honest that they don’t have all the answers, that the staff input is vital and appreciated, and that collaboratively the business can achieve so much more.

    Phillippa Duffy, General Manager University Bookshop - Otago
    Phillippa Duffy, General Manager

    At Telstra, I engaged Bruce to lead for me a critical review of an operating division within the Telstra Media portfolio, targeted at improving overall business performance through a refinement of the strategy and including customer value proposition, go-to-market execution and post sale customer care.

    The output of the review was a number of recommendations, many of which were implemented, resulting in improved product performance, profitability and customer satisfaction scores. Bruce engaged very effectively with incumbent leaders, building trust and collaboration. I would recommend Bruce as a consultant to lead any business improvement project.

    Rick Ellis, Group Executive Telstra Media
    Rick Ellis, Group Executive

    Your session was very well received and rated very highly receiving an ‘Excellent’ from the majority.

    Kimberly Poutler, Event Manager &, Chief Customer Officer  BT Financial Group
    Kimberly Poutler, Event Manager &, Chief Customer Officer

    Lisa delivered her Adapter Factor workshop to a select group of 2degrees change agents. The 1 day course received rave reviews with comments like “it was awesome I was engaged beginning to end”. The process also generated insightful change ideas that could be game changers for our business. I would highly recommend Lisa to your business if you’re serious about building innovation.

    Sarah Friis The Performance Team
    Sarah Friis

    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

    I flew from Christchurch for the Masterclass for Real Estate Managers course because I couldn’t find anything else like it on the market. It’s been the most fabulous workshop – lots of golden nuggets – don’t miss it.

     

    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

    An interesting and thought provoking seminar that every manager would find useful. Bruce’s presentation style is engaging and his real life experiences invaluable – not just another management 101 course taken directly out of a university text book.

    Brynn Burrows, Director of Office Leasing Colliers International
    Brynn Burrows, Director of Office Leasing

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