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About Bruce

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.

    Your stories about needing to increase output by 20% every year and people never being satisfied with just what they received last time really resonated with me and we should never forget those. Thanks very much for helping to make it a memorable day.

    Julie Shepherd Northland District Health Board
    Julie Shepherd

    We used Lisa and her in depth knowledge in November 2017 at our executive refocus days to review where our organisational culture had got to and where next to go. It was a great experience all round and brought clarity to our thinking. Bravo !

    Leanne Mash - CEO Central Otago District Council
    Leanne Mash - CEO

    Amazing, 90 minutes of informative, inspirational, engaging and very practical presentation … your stories are certainly excellent teaching tools.

    Lynn Lawton, Manager The Depot Artspace
    Lynn Lawton, Manager

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

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