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.
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.
IN MY OPINION…
Bruce Cotterill: Here’s to 2022 – let’s make it a better year
I remember starting the year with a "glass half full" outlook on the 12 months ahead. After the trials of 2020, I was focused on 2021 being better. How wrong I was. We've reached that time when many of us reflect on the year just passed and look forward to the year...
Bruce Cotterill: A case for greater scrutiny
I’m always surprised when I come across people who don’t seem to follow what’s going on in the world. Last week, I had such an experience. I bumped into an old mate I hadn’t seen in a while. He’s a great guy. He’s bright, educated and successful. He owns his own...
Bruce Cotterill: Billions in debt and nothing to show for it
Sometimes we tend to overlook what's staring back at us. As the health crisis has deepened, the economic crisis has scarcely been mentioned. Sure, we have expressed some sympathy for retailers and other business owners in Auckland, and we've listened to the occasional...
Bruce Cotterill: Freedom – it’s not just another word
I've learned a number of lessons from the pandemic. The most important are about the features of life that we once took for granted. As I've reflected on those things, there is one that stands out. It's something we've always had in this country. Something our...
Bruce Cotterill: Let’s govern for the whole team of 5 million
It's a great line, that: "The team of 5 million". It may have been written by a public relations person, but it has been delivered eloquently and repeatedly by our Prime Minister. So much so that she has made it her own. It's a very clever line. Brilliant in fact....
You call that a plan, Jacinda Ardern? This is a plan.
You can just about imagine the farcical scenes unfolding in the Cabinet room. The leader looks puzzled. "What can we give them this week?" "Well, we can't give them anything. There are too many cases." "What about walks on the beach?" "Nah, they can do that anyway."...