Though tailored one-one-one coaching, we provide you with the accountability and support to implement that change. And we’re proud to have a team of experienced professionals working who will work with you to do just that.

What does it look like?

• An initial 4-hour meeting
• 1½-hour meetings once a fortnight
• 4-hour quarterly reviews

Benefits

You will acquire new skills and techniques to add to your existing tool kit:

• Build strategic plans for your business
• Implement short, medium and long term goals
• Shift to working on your business, not in it
• Keep you on track
• Introduce KPIs and systems into your business
• Someone to bounce ideas and problems off

Facilitators

Nick Muller
Sales Coaching and Training – Business Culture

Nick is a Business Coach whose passion for business development is what led him to The ICEHOUSE.

Nick has developed a flair for building business cultures through a combination of strategic planning, coaching and sales training. Nick educates his clients in all aspects required to be a high performing business. He works fundamentally on the business at this base level, business culture, allowing the business to naturally accelerate, whilst realising their potential using practical real world processes and pace. As the business culture improves the outcomes naturally follow. Team building and working on the leadership and culture of the business is a direct access to improving results the company produces.

Leith Oliver
Operations

Dr Leith Oliver has broad experience as an Owner Manager of many businesses including companies engaged in housing construction, furniture manufacturing and exporting, and retailing. He also has a PhD, an MBA and MPhil with First Class Honours from The University of Auckland. Leith enjoys working one on one with Owner Managers to help them unlock the barriers to achieving substantial growth in their business.

His practical background and consulting experience puts him in a unique position to help small to medium sized companies.

Leith has an easy going nature and likes to inject humour where appropriate.

Josie Adlam
Strategy and Market Development  - Technology focus

Josie has unique blend of industry experiences across a full range of strategic and operational business functions.

With a formal degree in Electrical Engineering, Josie has always had a natural aptitude for business strategy and market development, which has continued to be reflected in her successful leadership career since moving to New Zealand from the United States in 1994. With a large portion of her services industry experience in the ICT sector, including sales, marketing, and product innovation positions at Telecom New Zealand and AlcatelLucent, Josie most recently spent several years at Kiwibank as the General Manager Distribution, heading up channels to market  Customer Experience.

Ken Leeming
Sales & Marketing – high level strategy

Spanning a 20 year career to date, Ken has held senior executive roles within a number of Australasia’s most recognisable organisations such as Heinz Wattie, Goodman Fielder, APN News and Media and SEEK NZ working across both the NZ and Australian markets.

Through a combination of building a strong understanding of directing the Sales and Marketing function and more recently through roles in General Management, Ken has built and acquired a wide range of business skills critical in delivering successful and sustainable business within a competitive marketplace.

Over the past 2 ½ years, Ken has been Consulting to SME and medium sized businesses evaluating and advising on Sales and Marketing strategy, developing greater proficiency in executive acumen, sales structure optimization and business process improvement requirements to assist with those organisations objectives of achieving their full business potential.

Zac De Silva
Workplace and Customer Experience, Business Model Specialist

Zac owns Business Changing and coaches and consults to a wide array of companies of all sizes. Zac connects personally with owners / executives to help them run a better workplace, be an effective leader, deliver great customer experience, review the business model and potential profitability of the business with a focus on how to grow sales and gross profit. This is achieved through agreeing a clear business plan with known accountabilities.

Zac has previously run Barkers and House of Travel Holidays and was CFO for Flight Centre Ltd. Zac is a chartered accountant and has won various awards including “Best Workplace in NZ”.

Peter Wogan
Leadership

Peter’s passion is for the leadership function of New Zealand businesses across all levels of an organisation. His expertise is sorting out leadership teams and individuals to create clear, effective and strong leadership and accountabilities. He has broad experience working in start-ups and established businesses in a number of industries including: information technology, telecommunications, online businesses, manufacturing; distribution; financial services; law; advertising and communications; energy, consultancy and exporting businesses.  He has also worked in health, education and for not-for-profit organisations.

Jo Clayton
Team and People Management

Jo established Acumen Ltd in 2001 and works with her client organisations on improving business performance and the effectiveness of senior executives and executive teams. She is an experienced facilitator, leadership development practitioner and coach.

Her methodology helps clients reflect on how they are operating and focuses on actual business issues that the executive is addressing at work. Jo can assist with a wide variety of practical models and frameworks to help leaders in planning and implementing changes as well as supporting them to be consistent in their approach to improvement.

Andrew Seerden
Sales & Marketing

Andrew has extensive governance, leadership, sales, marketing, business and strategic management skills. Originally with IBM The Netherlands, he was a former General Manager for Hewlett-Packard NZ and Business Unit Director for Compaq NZ, but he has also started – and worked in – a number of small and medium businesses.

His key strategic expertise is in B2B and B2C sales, both in a direct as well as indirect capacity. Andrew is passionate about getting results through aligning what the business owners want with strategic selling, people and sales management, channel development and channel management.

He thrives on driving change – if and when required – and is experienced in leading and scaling multi-million dollar business units through sustainable growth, diversification and JV initiatives. He is also known for getting results by rolling up his sleeves to deliver the right things to his customers.

James Bayly
Leadership, Business Financial and Strategic

James has expertise in leadership, business financial and strategic management of businesses. Most recently James was CFO of Gen-i Australasia, responsible for a large team of people in NZ and Australia who provided an array of financial services from financial and commercial support for customer deals to management accounting, revenue assurance and strategic planning. His key leadership experience has been driving accountability for results across the business he has been involved in.

James is now a director of Fresh Perspective Leadership limited. FPL is about creating leadership clarity, how to lead and how to be accountable for results. The work James does is personal, situational and practical and results in detailed plans for taking action

Debra Chantry
Marketing Strategy

Starting her professional life with a Biochemistry & Food Science qualification, her first role was in pharmaceutical sales. After a successful sales career, she returned to study Marketing and ultimately for an MBA. Since then she has held General Management, Leadership & Governance roles across a variety of multi-national businesses with a particular focus on business, sales and marketing strategy. Her experience spans start-ups, SME’s, Corporates & Not for Profit Organisations.

Debra is a member of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Marketers and lectures at the marketing association on their Certificate of Marketing and Certificate of Digital Marketing courses.

Testimonials

“My coach provided an excellent source of advice and really pushed us to grow. It’s definitely not been easy with how busy we’ve been, but so very worthwhile. We’re feeling better than we’ve ever felt about the future of the business.”
~ Anonymous

“Our coach Ken has been the perfect fit and exactly what we were looking for. We needed a Business Adviser rather than a ‘Coach’. He’s offered us an independent and objective perspective on our business. He’s someone who helps us see the big picture and helped set out a road map to achieve our objectives. We are now incredibly excited about our business’s progression onto the next level. We would recommend an ICEHOUSE ‘coach’ to anyone.”
~ Pia D’Ambros Smith – Motherbase Ltd

Investment

4 Months
$6,600 + GST

6 months
$8,580 + GST

12 months
$16,200 + GST

Payment plans available

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For more information please contact Mike Stokes on 09 308 6221 or m.stokes@theicehouse.co.nz