WHY A COACH?
Your career has progressed well though you're looking to take it to the next level.
Your drive, inspiration and perspiration have been key ingredients to your success and will be needed again to get to the next level. Now you must also harness new skills, styles and an improved contribution from others to bring greater success on a bigger scale. Only some of what has got you this far will take you where you want to get to. This is when you need a performance coach who will assist to strengthen your natural talents, develop some new ones and enable you to better utilise the talents of those around you. Someone you can trust and rely upon to support and challenge you to achieve your dreams.
MY BIO
Bruce's life purpose in helping others identify and fulfil their potential.
Bruce has epitomised the leader as a coach for his entire professional career where his passion for, and expertise in, assisting individuals achieve their potential has intersected. Bruce has taken delight in developing the potential of his colleagues to create the professional careers and lives which fulfil them.
Bruce has been a successful leader, manager and coach within ASX listed and global companies across five distinct sectors; education, health insurance, financial services, infrastructure and professional services, and within the community sector in his discretionary time.
In recent years Bruce has been coaching and mentoring CEOs and executives in a number of sectors to improve their effectiveness as leaders and managers of people
Bruce is an excellent listener with an abiding passion to obtain measureable benefits for those he coaches from the work they do together.
“As a coach I work conscientiously to create a strong relationship where trust and mutual respect abounds. I create a safe environment where honesty is the foundation allowing me to act as a sounding board, confidante and provocateur to develop the skills, knowledge and expertise of those I work with to reach their full potential. I care deeply about what I do and obtaining measureable results.”
TESTIMONIALS
“I would like to express my respect and appreciation for Bruce’s insights as an Executive Coach over a four year period. Bruce is highly qualified and experienced in executive roles across a range of industry sectors and is well suited to providing Executive Coaching. My experience was sincere, focused while challenging. He paced his reflective questions and discussions to match the issues I was addressing. His ability to enable me to see problems from different perspectives is a unique ability.
In all my dealing with Bruce, I found him to be a considerate and caring human being. Furthermore, I found Bruce intelligent, personable and easy to work with. Seldom have I have been able to recommend someone without reservation. It is a pleasure to do so in the case of Bruce Anderson.”
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“I engaged Bruce to help me develop my personal leadership and career navigation. He provided invaluable guidance by helping me to identify clear outcomes and a path to follow to enable me to achieve those goals. Bruce is an incredible listener, is generous with his time and wisdom gained from years of experience as a CEO. He never told me what I should do, but rather through skilful questioning and discussion helped me to formulate plans which enabled me to grow. I would highly recommend Bruce as an executive coach.”
“When I first engaged Bruce, I was looking for someone who would take the time to understand my challenges, who would serve as a sounding board for my ideas, who would challenge me to view things from a range of perspectives, and who would intentionally yet safely create a discordance in my thinking which allowed rich learning to take place. Bruce’s support helped me to produce all the outputs and outcomes required from my role during a major change program in a particularly volatile professional environment.
At a personal, and far more significant level, Bruce helped create a resilience, a self-confidence and a resourcefulness in my leadership style that has served me and the organisations I’ve worked in to great effect. Transformational is an easily misused term yet I truly believe Bruce has helped me transform into a highly effective and sought after leader.
Bruce is warm, authentic and highly relational. He made it easy to share the difficult things about me and my professional life, and made it feel safe even when pushing back on my thinking and taking, at times, a provocative position just to help me see an alternate perspective. I’ve worked with many outstanding leaders, managers and coaches though my career and Bruce truly stands apart.”
“I was appointed to a CEO role to create a new organization from two pre-existing entities and engaged Bruce to enhance my effectiveness during the process and to develop my strategic and management capabilities. He was equally engaging and challenging to broaden my approaches and develop my confidence in the complexities of my responsibilities. Bruce’s approach encouraged greater reflection of my personal and professional goals helping me understand how they complement a balanced approach to life and I am in the driver’s seat dictating the pace and direction.”