Loretta Brown

A leadership expert and executive coach, Loretta Brown specialises in the development of wisdom and leadership. In thousands of hours of conversation with executives in all sectors, Loretta knows individual, team and organisational leadership challenges inside out.

The desire to "change the world" meant an early career in community development, social work and social change. Over the past twenty years Loretta has been developing leaders in one to one coaching engagements, as well as within executive leadership programmes.  As Corporate Programme Director at the New Zealand Leadership Institute, University of Auckland, Business School, Loretta has led long-term leadership development programmes with companies such as Westpac and Vector.

Founding the New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre in 1999, Loretta has actively developed the coaching profession in NZ.  Her considerable knowledge and experience has been recognized through the achievement of the Master Coach accreditation from the European Coaching and Mentoring Council.

Loretta's specialty is working with people in senior roles who tend to be too busy but who are ready to make a real difference. People return to Loretta again and again when they have tough decisions to make, when they feel isolated and need a strong strategic sounding board.  With Loretta, leaders sustain wellbeing, whilst building successful teams, creating profitable, ethical organisations and working for wider positive change.

In between inspiring leaders, Loretta can also be found avoiding housework, talking to her chickens and attempting to grow vegetables on Waiheke Island, NZ. She and her husband and two children swim in the ocean, laugh lots and give thanks to be living in a safe and abundant part of the world.

Selected client organisations:

Westpac, Vector, NZ Trade and Enterprise, NZ Herald, APN, Education Review Office, PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Ernst Young, Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, NZ Open Polytechnic, DB Breweries, Auckland District Health Board,  Victim Support, NZ Police, Piritahi Marae, Grant Thornton NZ

Selected recommendations:

"Loretta mentored me for a year. During this time she helped me frame sometimes difficult work situations in a new light and provided practical suggestions that enabled me to quickly make headway on any issue. Loretta has real integrity and a well of wisdom to impart to any manager or leader looking to take their career to the next step." September 15, 2010

Duncan Catanach. Trade Commissioner - US at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise

"I feel like I walk a little bit taller after my sessions with Loretta." December 13, 2010

Jane Aubery, Online Classifies Sales Manager. New Zealand Herald.

"Loretta is a thought leader in Leadership Mentoring. She coaches the coaches! She will guide you through a passage of in depth development - essential for effective leadership. My colleagues and I have utilised her services at many different times for periods of particular exploration."

Liz Beddoe, Head Counselling, Human Services and Social Work, Faculty of Education. University of Auckland.

"I was initially skeptical that anyone outside my industry would have any meaningful insights into how to survive - let alone thrive - as a manager in an environment of intense and constant change. Loretta proved otherwise. She quickly identified what mattered - internally and externally - and was able to help identify practical strategies for coping with the day to day reality of the job while keeping an eye fixed firmly on the bigger picture: what next, how and why?"

Cate Brett, Senior Media and Policy Adviser, NZ Law Commission. (Former Editor, Sunday Star Times)

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