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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.

    This course was enlightening, informative and a shot in the arm I needed. I feel I’m better armed after completing this course to tackle the daily challenges of managing people and building a profitable business. Bruce Cotterill is a fantastic speaker and I would recommend to any organisation that wants to succeed in business.

    Lucky Lopesi, NI Operations Manager Move Logistics
    Lucky Lopesi, NI Operations Manager

    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

    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

    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 – top 100 business thought leader in America. Top 500 Leadership Development Expert in the World
    John Spence – top 100 business thought leader in America.

    An excellent handbook that reminds us of the distinction between management and leadership. The former is about sweat; the latter is more about vision, strategy and inspiration. Cotterill laces his prose with memorable aphorisms and intelligent reflections.  A very good read for reflective executives and eager students.

    Dr. David J. Teece CNZM Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School, University of California Berkeley
    Dr. David J. Teece CNZM

    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

    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

    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.

     

    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

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