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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.

    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

    As a business owner sometimes you need to step back and look at how far you have come, where you are now and plan on how far you want to go. In Bruce’s presentation he took us on that journey. He not only inspired with his own stories of business transformation but also shared resources and tools that could be used in any business. Add to that him being an entertaining presenter made it an hour well spent.

    Jane Slack-Smith, Director Investors Choice Mortgages
    Jane Slack-Smith, Director

    I have heard many trainers, Bruce would be one of the best I have heard and most relevant to our business

    Glenn Baker - Manager, One Tree Hill Bayleys
    Glenn Baker - Manager, One Tree Hill

    Worthwhile – would recommend to others. Very impressed! Great day thank you.

    And two weeks later… “I really valued your time and ideas shared with the group and over the last two weeks I’ve been implementing some of your ideas. It was highly thought provoking and gave me encouragement on what I was currently doing and also clarity of purpose.”

    Kristina Marmont, Branch Manager Harcourts Milford Cooper & Co Ltd
    Kristina Marmont, Branch Manager

    A must attend, simply brilliant!

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

    Thank you so much for the insightful, provocative and engaging presentations to The CEO Institute in New Zealand. The powerful strategic benefits of well crafted corporate culture that is deliberately and consistently deployed are not well understood or are under-estimated. Lisa highlighted these benefits and the missed opportunities that a strategically aligned and empowering culture can deliver to those companies. She presented compelling examples of where this has occurred successfully. Her presentation to our syndicate members in a small group session was challenging and thought provoking. I strongly recommend any CEO taking the time to sit down and have a good conversation with Lisa. She will challenge your understanding of how culture and strategy relate to each other and the very real opportunities for growth and strategic development that exist. It was no surprise that her session was very highly rated by our syndicate members.

    Simon Whyte - Chairman | Head of NZ The Lion Foundation & The CEO Institute
    Simon Whyte - Chairman | Head of NZ

    Your stories about needing to increase output by 20% every year and people never being satisfied with just what they received last time really resonated with me and we should never forget those. Thanks very much for helping to make it a memorable day.

    Julie Shepherd Northland District Health Board
    Julie Shepherd

    Bruce’s delivery of this content is second to none. It is engaging, challenging, and most importantly RELEVANT. Bruce finds a way to relate to us all and despite presenting to a group I still felt like this was tailored exactly to my situation. Thank you.

    Blair James, Managing Director James Group
    Blair James, Managing Director

    I read 50+ business books a year and in my humble opinion this is one of the best. Right up there with Dale Carnegie and Jim Collins. I am going to buy a copy for each of my SLT and we will use the framework as a catalyst for our strategy planning and execution in 2019

    Dean Addie, CEO EIS Automation and Electrical
    Dean Addie, CEO

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