FOR CEOS AND MANAGING DIRECTORS
CEO Coaching New Zealand
Loretta provides strategic leadership coaching for CEOs, Directors and leaders in large-scale change and decision-making roles with national influence. She is widely sought after for decades of working with leaders in every domain.
Loretta profoundly understands the challenges of senior roles and has first-hand experience with the pressures faced.
“I don't need more advice. I trust Loretta to help me get out of the weeds. She thinks with me.”
ARJIT BHANA · CEO · SYSMEX NZ
Most CEOs outgrow what coaching alone can offer.
The work of leading at this level, the wide ranging challenges, the isolation, the decisions that can't be shared, requires something more than a coaching framework.
What the leaders I work with describe is a need for trusted counsel. A completely independent thinking partner who understands the weight of the role, holds the strategic and the personal together and is able to think with you.
For more than 25 years I have worked alongside CEOs, MDs and directors across New Zealand organisations — in business, public sector, iwi and for-purpose environments. This is not CEO coaching as a programme. It is an ongoing advisory relationship, built on deep trust, absolute confidentiality and a long view.
What brings CEOs to work with Loretta
There is no CEO role that isn't under sustained pressure. The isolation is real.
CEOs face difficult challenges alone, unable to share sensitive issues with colleagues or peers or to share without judgement or agenda.
Constantly drawn back to the day-to-day, CEOs need a regular sounding board to:
Manage diverse demands and get more out of your board
Survive the usual imposter syndrome and avoid common CEO derailers
Lead difficult team members and prevent team breakdown
Have more strategic influence and grow a positive and effective culture
Work through your 'why' and stay true to your values
Make your next career move count. Manage the transition to new roles. Find more meaning
“Loretta has an exceptional ability to understand the unique challenges leaders face in complex organisations. She pairs deep insight into leadership dynamics with a receptiveness to the particular situations I navigate.”
RACHAEL HART · CEO, CANCER SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
“Discussions with Loretta have been very useful, helping me own the CEO role. She has provided the space to reflect on challenges and the right strategy for our business. I thoroughly recommend her.”
ARJIT BHANA · CEO, SYSMEX NZ
About Loretta Brown
Loretta Brown is a strategic leadership advisor working with a wide variety of leaders in every sector. She has earned a Master Coach accreditation from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
She holds a Master of Social Work (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts, and draws on more than 25 years of working with senior leaders across every sector in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. Her clients have included leaders from Fonterra, HSBC, Cancer Society of NZ, Live Nation, Bayer, Sysmex, Tonkin Taylor, Workbridge, ICBC New Zealand, The Trusts, Procare, and Te Whatu Ora.
Loretta founded and led the New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre for more than 25 years, providing industry leadership in the ethical and professional executive and leadership development.
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