Independent, Trusted Counsel for CEOs, directors and senior leaders
Expert support based on 25+ years working with leaders in large-scale change and decision-making roles.
For leaders who take the long view - for their organisations, their people, and the future of Aotearoa New Zealand.
“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
What is trusted counsel with Loretta?
Part sounding board, part strategic adviser. Always independent.
At this level, everything competes for your attention at once. There are things you can't easily work through with your board, your team or people who have a stake in the issues.
This is a dedicated place to step outside the immediate pressures of your role, say what you can’t say elsewhere, test your thinking and get back clarity.
When you carry big responsibilities, you don’t need to do it alone.
Together, we work through the most challenging aspects of your leadership - breaking it down, helping you get clear about what you will do.
Most importantly, we find ways for you to stay connected with the “why” of your leadership and to be most effective in how you use your influence.
When do leaders seek out these conversations?
When there is a lot at stake in decisions
When you are facing a difficult decision, an uncomfortable leadership issue, a relationship, an emerging concern, or something you haven't been able to get your head around yet.
Think out loud with someone experienced to address the trickiest challenges.
When you are leading wider change
Knowing what needs to change is easier than making it happen. There is never just one answer. Commercial pressures, people, customers, and other stakeholders can pull in different directions.
Work through tradeoffs, decide on timely action and sustain yourself leading change.
When the “why” of your leadership is important
As your responsibility grows, the questions change: How are you leading? What might need to change in you?
Support is required to answer: What is next? What is the work worth doing now?
How do you want your leadership and influence to be in service of next?
What kinds of issues do leaders raise with Loretta?
Challenging a board's thinking.
Balancing short-term results with longer-term decision making.
Leading a tough restructure humanely.
Addressing difficult relationships and conflict.
Changing an entrenched leadership behaviour.
Bringing stakeholders into decisions differently.
Influencing the direction of an industry.
Creating change with intergenerational value.
Why leaders work with Loretta
Ive been working alongside senior leaders for over 25 years, with business, central and local government, iwi, health entities, financial institutions, and for-purpose organisations.
My clients include leaders from Fonterra, Mental Health Foundation, Westpac, HSBC, Cancer Society of NZ, Bayer, Sysmex NZ, Live Nation, Workbridge, Tonkin Taylor, ICBC, The Trusts, Procare, Special Group, Sports Waitakere, and Te Whatu Ora, among others.
I profoundly understand the challenges of CEO, board level and senior roles, with first-hand experience with the pressures faced and a deep understanding of leadership, behaviour, change and systems.
I am founder and led the New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre for more than 25 years, providing industry leadership in ethical and professional executive coaching and leadership development.
I hold a Master Coach accreditation from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
THE WORK THAT IS WORTH DOING
I work with leaders using their influence to shape what comes next
The hardest questions aren't about capability. They're about judgement, integrity and where you're taking things next.
If you are leading change you will be working within established systems and mindsets while trying to create new pathways forward.
I know the complexity of this work. The long view it requires. The tension between what is and what could be. And the personal demands of carrying responsibility for change that affects many people.
At this level, the work gets lonelier, not easier.
What leaders need isn't more advice.
What helps is having someone with the experience to think with you, someone who knows you well and understands what is most important to you.
Loretta
WHAT LEADERS SAY
In their words.
"Loretta takes the time to deeply understand her clients, their drivers, their purpose, and the kind of leader they aspire to be. She guided me through many highs and lows with purpose- and values-led insights."
KOMAL MISTRY-MEHTA · CHIEF INNOVATION & BRAND OFFICER, FONTERRA
"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 NZ
"Every now and then, when you are in need of the right guidance, someone special steps into your path. If you are fortunate, that person will clear away your confusion, encouraging a new clarity and purpose to emerge. When it counted the most, Loretta made the difference."
MARTIN CROWE · ICONIC NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER, LEADER AND MENTOR · IN MEMORIAM
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