Our goal is to help transform businesses and key staff from where they are today, to where they want to be through business coaching and professional development programs.
Steve Goddard
Steve, formerly a partner of a significant accounting practice, became a business coach in 2002. In that time, he has conducted numerous leadership and management workshops, specialising in strategic planning for small to medium sized firms. Steve has also completed an instructors course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and balances his significant commercial acumen with an acute understanding of challenges that face business owners, both professionally and personally.
Robert Bentley
Robert has been a business coach since 2003, following a successful military and corporate career. Robert has studied at Harvard Business School and also developed the Acuity Leadership Program in 2007. Known on social media as the 'Carpool Coach', Robert has also completed an instructors course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), so is able to assist his clients with the significant stress that can accom pany business ownership. He is a founding member of Quorum, a shared economy of small businesses, and has authored two books, Small Business Wisdom, and RAPPORT.
Oscar Pellizzon
Oscar, formerly a partner of a successful boutique accounting firm, understands the requirements of selling a professional service, and the need to develop referral relationships that generate new business. He now applies his twenty years experience helping businesses grow, and assisting owners and staff to balance the need to perform with managing the energy required to sustain it. As a trained Mindfulness instructor, Oscar shares a unique skillset with his fellow Acuity colleagues, in being able to assist clients cope with the stresses of business ownership in the twenty-first century.
Steve Connell
Steve’s accounting and business consulting career led into training and development. He’s delivered leadership, sales and frontline service workshops and programs in Australia and Asia. He became a business coach in 1999. Steve works with businesses to establish the Vision, Culture, Strategies, and Operating Structures needed for success, along with the skills required to implement growth and change. A qualified Mindfulness teacher, Steve’s committed to helping business owners deal with the stresses of the modern commercial environment, and live lives of purpose, focus and wellbeing. Based in New Zealand, Steve also works with wife Tara in culture and leadership at www.mindfulnation.co.nz