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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 extremely valuable investment of time that can be put to use immediately. I really liked the action list generated from the course.

    Andrew Clark, Commercial Broker Barfoot and Thompson
    Andrew Clark, Commercial Broker

    It’s not often that you get a speaker who connects with everyone in the audience from 25 to 65 years old and ranging from small business owners to senior corporate managers. If this is what you are after, Bruce is your man. Ranging from leadership to management, managing millennials and sharing entertaining and thought provoking anecdotes Bruce nailed it. If you haven’t yet had Bruce as a keynote speaker you have a treat in store.

    Dave Hooker, Executive Director Association of Convenience Stores
    Dave Hooker, Executive Director

    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

    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

    Bruce had the difficult job of being the closing presenter at the Rotary Youth Leadership Programme.  From the start he captivated the 30 young leaders in the room, making his leadership points clearly with interesting and real stories. It is amazing to see someone with such an extensive corporate background connecting so well with young people starting out their careers.  Everyone in the room could relate to the messages & there were many.  Outstanding!

    Barry Larsen, Youth Director Rotary
    Barry Larsen, Youth Director

    Bruce has a broad experience in leadership and shares his insights, tools and approaches through great story telling. Keeping leadership simple and focusing on what you want to achieve through great communication with your teams is the focus of the masterclass, with lots of practical ways to action changes to enhance your current leadership approach. Great investment in your future as a leader!

    Danielle Chew, Performance and Delivery Manager ANZ Bank
    Danielle Chew, Performance and Delivery Manager

    Brilliant Masterclass. The most engaging and tangible 2 day course I have attended. Bruce has given me some useful ideas and processes which all make sense without complexity. This will absolutely help me connect the dots to lead a successful team. If you want to achieve what you want to achieve, Bruce will make it happen!

    Michael Edmonds, Regional Manager Business Banking ANZ Bank
    Michael Edmonds, Regional Manager Business Banking

    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.

     

    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

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    First Day Blues? Not Here!

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    Yesterday my daughter started her first real job.  She’s 21 and is in the final throes of her business degree.  For as long as I can remember, all she’s ever wanted to do is work in advertising.  She’s majoring in Advertising and Marketing.  She’s done ok.  She’s...

    7 Simple Steps to Win More New Business

    7 Simple Steps to Win More New Business

    by | Apr 2, 2018 | ,

    Earlier this month I spent some time with a team of senior Sales Executives and their Sales Managers. The purpose of the session was this: they had been losing big ‘new business’ pitches, so we decided to review the business development process from brief to pitch. To put it into perspective, these guys are all working on business that can generate revenues of up to $1 million from a single client. So, we are talking about intelligent, well-presented, senior men and women who are all pretty capable.