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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.

    I read a lot of business books and some of them we use as references as we coach executives and professional CEO’s to get incrementally better at their leadership craft. This book is one that will be used as a reference. It simplifies and offers practical advice based on Bruce’s business experience. Most importantly it reminds all of us leading in a complicated world that leadership is all about the connecting with “people” and getting things done.

    Kendall Langston, Chief Executive Advisory.Works
    Kendall Langston, Chief Executive

    You set the mood, the tone and appetite for more with your involvement and style that was sustained right through the day. Thank you for that and for being such a personable  and active force in the event.

    Tony Pearse Deer Industry NZ
    Tony Pearse

    I want to thank you, again, for your presentation.  I’ve attended many, many, professional presentations over the years, and yours was one of the best I’ve seen.  Both the style of presenting and — most important — the content were fabulous.  And your point about change and lack of predictability resonate with me, because I’ve been preaching to my students for years that advertising is all about change, and they should not only get comfortable with it, but should embrace it.

    Jef Richards, Professor & Chair, Advertising, Public Relations & Retailing Michigan State University, USA
    Jef Richards, Professor & Chair, Advertising, Public Relations & Retailing

    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

    Bruce’s overall industry experience made the two days very interesting and it was great to be able to hear just how he had implemented the points he spoke about into his roles and the results achieved.

    Shaun Wilson, Managing Director Unite Logistics
    Shaun Wilson, Managing Director

    Thank you for two fantastic presentations at The Professionals Sales Conference. Each talk was loaded with lots of good practical take away points. It was also fantastic to meet you and speak in person. As discussed, training for real estate sales people is abundantly available whilst as a new business owner it seems training is much more scarce.

    Steve Lovegrove, Business Owner McDowell Real Estate Ltd
    Steve Lovegrove, Business Owner

    Once in a decade a business “How To” book comes along that really breaks the mould, and here it is. Cotterill knows the game and with skill and inside knowledge provides a perfect guide through the pitfalls of management and leadership. The Best Leaders Don’t Shout nails the course … it is a sheer delight. Cotterill has indeed been there and done most of it. His writing is concise and razor sharp and it reads like a novel, a guide book and a mentor to your business ambition. Don’t miss out.

    Sir Bob Harvey, Former Mayor, Waitakere City, New Zealand, Author, Professional Director 
    Sir Bob Harvey, Former Mayor, Waitakere City, New Zealand, Author, Professional Director

    A must attend, simply brilliant!

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

    Everyone I have spoken to since were blown away and ‘totally inspired’ by your presentations.

    Kelly Walden, Portfolio Manager, Conferences  Employers and Manufacturers Association
    Kelly Walden, Portfolio Manager, Conferences

    IN MY OPINION…

    What Defines A Great Leader?

    What Defines A Great Leader?

    by | Dec 10, 2018 |

    The Best Leaders Don’t Shout   The best leaders don’t shout, but they do communicate. The best leaders don’t stand above their people, but alongside them. The best leaders don’t make waves, but they make ripples throughout the organisation.   The best...

    Let’s Stop Throwing Good People On The Scrapheap?

    Let’s Stop Throwing Good People On The Scrapheap?

    by | Nov 19, 2018 |

    This week Prince Charles celebrated his 70th birthday. Nothing unusual in that I hear you say. And you’re right. People, including working people, turn 70 every day. What is unusual is that Prince Charles, at 70 years of age, still hasn’t commenced the job he’s spent...

    Five Ways For Businesses To Prepare For The Next Financial Crisis

    Five Ways For Businesses To Prepare For The Next Financial Crisis

    by | Nov 6, 2018 |

    There are signs that the next financial crisis may be looming. Bruce Cotterill offers 5 simple steps to help you and your business to prepare.

    1. Do you have the right people?
    2. Keep your external advisers close
    3. Make sure your customers feel valued
    4. Listen to those at the coalface
    5. Invite and listen to feedback – even when it hurts.

    Can We Be A Better Tourism Destination?

    Can We Be A Better Tourism Destination?

    by | Sep 25, 2018 |

    I think we live in the best country in the world. Our lifestyle takes a lot of beating. We’re close to the oceans and the mountains. And our distance from the rest of the world is now an advantage rather than a curse. I’ve just spent two weeks travelling in France....