Brendan Boyle

Coach list: Chief executives and system leaders

Email: bboyle@xtra.co.nz 
Phone: 027 227 7320
Location: Auckland
Face to face delivery: 
Locations without disbursements: Wellington
Locations with disbursements: Flexible
Virtual delivery: Zoom, Microsoft Teams

Brendan has practical experience coaching senior leaders in New Zealand and across the Pacific Islands. He brings fifteen years’ experience as a government department chief executive dealing with a myriad of challenges and crises. He has extensive experience leading change and managing the personal challenges inherent in a chief executive role.

As a coach, he likes to focus on the challenges that keep a leader awake at night and draws on his own leadership experience to help leaders navigate ambiguity and complexity.

Brendan is very experienced at managing the political/executive interface. He is able to draw on his extensive experience working directly as a chief executive with over forty Ministers, across a wide range of political parties. As a previous chief executive, he is acutely aware of the professional and personal challenges and risks.

Brendan is currently engaged in a number of governance roles and consulting assignments.

Areas of specific leadership coaching experience:

  • Chief executive and system leadership – He has functional lead experience as Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) and social sector leadership as sectoral lead.

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