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About Bruce

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.

    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

    The impact of Bruce’s material was so significant on me and my business that I purchased 600 copies and sent them to my clients.

    James Collins, Managing Director Bluesky Wireless
    James Collins, Managing 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.

     

    Thanks for taking us through a very thought provoking couple of days, would recommend to anyone.

    Rod Dale, Quality Manager The Drug Detection Agency
    Rod Dale, Quality Manager

    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

    It was my highlight of the conference attending your presentation. …I consider the most relevant: “Be Clear about what you are trying to achieve – Real clarity makes decision making easier.”  This is what I took from your presentation and already it has made my life at Radio Rentals more streamlined. It does make decisions easier when my team and I have a clear goal and purpose.  I included your key points in last weeks branch team meeting and all my team were impressed with your insight.

    Tony Kennedy, Store Manager Radio Rentals
    Tony Kennedy, Store 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

    I really enjoyed your talk. It was informative and entertaining. The beginning was fantastic when you started talking right next to me, and engaged the whole room by being in the audience and walking amongst us.  I was in Real Estate for 8 years and often saw speakers and trainers, but none as engaging as you.  Thanks again for your inspirational talk.

    Stephen Langridge, South Island Account Manager Thermakraft
    Stephen Langridge, South Island Account Manager

    Bruce is a talented, experienced man with a lot of interesting and engaging stories putting ‘theory’ into real life examples and experience. The sessions were relevant, simple, interactive and useful for every day leadership and leaders of all experiences

    Jenna Hyland, Senior Wealth Specialist ANZ Bank
    Jenna Hyland, Senior Wealth Specialist

    IN MY OPINION…

    NZ must get ready for post-Covid world

    NZ must get ready for post-Covid world

    You can’t help but wonder what people around the world might be thinking. As they sit in their locked down towns and cities, staring at their overused TV screens, looking at the clear blue skies of a New Zealand summer and the spectacle of America’s Cup yachts sailing at roaring speeds across the Waitematā Harbour, they must be saying “wow”.