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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.

    We have had the pleasure of working with Lisa at 2degrees. We sought her support for helping our people develop capability and confidence, particularly in the areas of disruption and innovation. I would recommend Lisa if you are looking for a business partner who can help you break out of your current operating paradigm take off your blinkers and create a new world. Lisa is willing to share her wealth of business experience and insights. I would highly recommend her.

    Helen Roach - Head of Talent Two Degrees Mobile
    Helen Roach - Head of Talent

    I learnt a great deal out of the two days especially from Bruce’s stories. I walked around and talked to over 40 team members 4-5pm today. Feeling 10 feet tall and that’s actually one of the most enjoyable part of my career with ANZ to date.

    Jack Hou, Head of Asian/Migrant Bank, Retail & Business Banking Central ANZ Bank
    Jack Hou, Head of Asian/Migrant Bank, Retail & Business Banking Central

    Your session was very well received and rated very highly receiving an ‘Excellent’ from the majority.

    Kimberly Poutler, Event Manager &, Chief Customer Officer  BT Financial Group
    Kimberly Poutler, Event Manager &, Chief Customer 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

    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.

     

    Lisa has challenged me more than just about anyone, and that’s no mean feat. As a former Commando Officer and Green Beret with the British Royal Marines, and Great Britain Combined Services Rugby representative I’m used to being pushed to my limits – and beyond. With Lisa as my business coach I have managed to break through my own glass ceiling. In 6 months my profit  has grown 250%, and I’m happier than I’ve been in a very long time. We have much left to do to realise my vision – and we’ll be doing it together. Lisa is unwaivering in her support, insightful, and in many ways a visionary. She has a unique way of not pulling any punches, while being respectful and considerate.

    Steve Hall - Business Owner Fitforce Ltd & Commando Clothing
    Steve Hall - Business Owner

    Great session on leadership and how to get the best our of your people. Highly recommended!

    David Latu, Rooms Division Manager The Heritage Hotel
    David Latu, Rooms Division 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

    At Telstra, I engaged Bruce to lead for me a critical review of an operating division within the Telstra Media portfolio, targeted at improving overall business performance through a refinement of the strategy and including customer value proposition, go-to-market execution and post sale customer care.

    The output of the review was a number of recommendations, many of which were implemented, resulting in improved product performance, profitability and customer satisfaction scores. Bruce engaged very effectively with incumbent leaders, building trust and collaboration. I would recommend Bruce as a consultant to lead any business improvement project.

    Rick Ellis, Group Executive Telstra Media
    Rick Ellis, Group Executive

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    The First 30 Days

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    I just did a Google images search. I typed “Board of Directors” into the search line. Immediately, as we have come to expect, my screen lit up with hundreds of photos. In this case the photos are of men in suits. They are mostly sitting around oversized tables or standing in line posing for the Company photo. Oh, and occasionally, there is a woman. I then went to my favourite photos site and searched “Women on Boards”. Guess what came up? Surfing pictures.