FOR CEOS, COUNTRY MANAGERS AND MANAGING DIRECTORS
CEO Coaching New Zealand
Loretta provides strategic leadership coaching for CEOs and senior leaders in large-scale decision-making roles.
She is widely sought after for decades of working with leaders in every domain.
Loretta profoundly understands the challenges of the CEO role and has first-hand experience with the pressures faced.
"I meet with Loretta as my weekly reset. She knows my world and my industry."
PENNY KNEEBONE · CEO · TONKIN + TAYLOR
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 and multi-national organisations - in business, public sector, iwi and for-purpose environments. This is not CEO coaching that you might have experienced before; it is an ongoing advisory relationship, built on deep trust, absolute confidentiality that ensures your success in taking the long view.
What brings CEOs to work with Loretta
There is no CEO role that isn't under sustained pressure. But the questions that bring CEOs to conversations with Loretta are rarely about pressure in general. They are sensitive, and almost impossible to raise inside the organisation:
My chair and I are not aligned. How do I repair that without creating a bigger problem?
I need to move on a senior executive everyone likes. How do I do it well?
The board wants a strategy refresh, but there is a a flaw in the current direction that others aren’t seeing.
We're heading into a restructure. I know what has to happen but the teams are already at capacity and had so much change.
Am I still the right CEO for the next phase, and how would I know?
How long should I stay? And what do I want my legacy to be when I leave?
What is this role costing me at home, and is the cost worth it?
These are the conversations we have. Candid, confidential, and shaped entirely by what you are carrying.
“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 Westpac, Fonterra, HSBC, Cancer Society of NZ, Live Nation, Bayer, Mental Health Foundation, Sysmex, Human Rights Commission, Tonkin Taylor, Workbridge, ICBC New Zealand, The Trusts, Procare, and Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ.
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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