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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.

    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 – top 100 business thought leader in America. Top 500 Leadership Development Expert in the World
    John Spence – top 100 business thought leader in America.

    Bruce is an inspiring and engaging speaker who can tailor his vast depth of experience to add real value to your business and your challenges. Bruce has added real value to our team, and inspired change to move from good to great. His ability to challenge current thinking in a way that allows people to discover their own solutions has been really beneficial.

    Rodney King, General Manager Retail and Business Banking ANZ Bank
    Rodney King, General Manager Retail and Business Banking

    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

    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

    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

    Bruce’s easy and personable manner was evident in his fabulous presentation with content that was simple, easy to follow, achievable and useful for any leader in business.

    Suzanne MacLean, Branch Manager Barfoot & Thompson
    Suzanne MacLean, Branch Manager

    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

    A fantastic opportunity to get together with other leaders and work on my leadership skills. Bruce really gets you thinking but also makes sure you have a plan to put in place key actions. A great learning experience for any leader.

    Mark Hill-Rennie, Regional Manager ANZ
    Mark Hill-Rennie, Regional 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

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