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"I BELIEVE THAT ATHLETES ARE OFTEN BORN, BUT LEADERS ARE MADE"
Bruce is devoted to inspiring and empowering leaders and managers to become better leaders. A big part of his motivation is to see businesses being better run, people with more meaningful careers making a real contribution to the companies they work for, and customers getting better service outcomes.
If you think about the skills of the leader, they include the ability to communicate, clarity of thought, planning skills, people skills, orientation to duty, high integrity and trustworthiness. These are all learned skills that come with experience. No-one is born with that stuff and very few of us gets it right every time. Building these capabilities is a function of upbringing, education, experience and the other lessons that life throws at us. Bruce Cotterill
BUSINESS BACKGROUND
As CEO Bruce has lead turnarounds at real estate group Colliers, Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines, and iconic New Zealand sportswear company Canterbury International. He was subsequently asked by shareholders to step in as CEO of Yellow Pages Group to lead that organisation through a period of dramatic change, including the restructure of the Company's $1.8 billion of debt. He is a transformation leader with extensive experience across a range of industries, notably real estate, media, financial services, technology and retail and a variety of ownership models, including both public company and private equity. He has also volunteered extensively, working with not for profits and service organisations.
His career is probably best described as a vertical learning curve. At the age of just 34, Bruce was appointed to lead Colliers, Australia's number 1 commercial real estate organisation. Upon completing the turnaround there, he developed the 7 Principles of Profit and embarked on a new journey, speaking to corporate audiences and sharing his thoughts and ideas with executives and business owners. Since then, he has taken on three further CEO roles as well as countless roles as a chairman, director and consultant. And although the experiences change, those 7 headings are just as relevant as they ever were.
His leadership experience has seen him at the helm of organisations of all sizes � from 3 people to 3,500; with revenues ranging from zero to $800 million. He has regularly been thrown into the deep end with businesses that are under-performing and under pressure! His straight forward approach coupled with his energy and drive have been responsible for huge improvements in all aspects of business performance. and he is prepared to share that with you.
Bruce is a passionate leader of people and change; and is genuinely interested in business performance improvement.
A lifetime leader, who focuses on clear objectives, enhanced personnel engagement and improved customer orientation he has continuously delivered vastly improved results through his involvement in organisations.
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