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About us
Business Fitness NZ was founded in 2002 by Chartered Accountant Viv Brownrigg.
The company now supports more than 250 accounting practices throughout New Zealand in their quest for effective systemisation and practice management.
Viv Brownrigg, CEO of Business Fitness NZ
Founder of both The Business Results Group Ltd and Business Fitness NZ, Viv’s business passion and interest is in stretching SME businesses towards performance excellence. Viv has achieved the role of Trusted Advisor to many of her clients. Of course we in the Team have long known her as our Trusted Advisor specialising in Friday night medication sessions. Always questing for personal excellence Viv is working towards her goal of “Ms Savvy Blanc” 2008.
As mentor and coach to many accounting businesses throughout the country, she relishes the challenge of working with diverse practice teams, even in times of adversity. The only CEO able to fall UP stairs in a 3 piece business suit and stilettos while maintaining a full cup of tea, her love of danger is legendary.
Viv considers one of her greatest achievement to be the creation and development of Business Fitness NZ along with her remarkable team (we didn’t write that), who are every bit as passionate as she is about the Company, its product and especially its clients.
NB. No Brown Cardies were worn in the writing of this bio.
David Steele, Director of Business Fitness NZ
Reluctantly admitting he is of the baby boomer generation Dave lives to work. And text! He takes great pride in being able to bridge the generation gap and even claims to understand Generation Y! (It would be unkind to tell him he’s delusional so we haven’t.)
Dave’s drive, enthusiasm and energy stems from coaching everyone around him and takes great pleasure guiding businesses and accounting firms through the trails of life and the golf course.
Dave’s favourite motto is that there are no problems only solutions! (Is that from a Tui Ad??)
This Bio is brought to you by the capital letter S for “Sensational” and M for “Maaaaaate”.
Julie Benton, General Manager of Business Fitness NZ
Julie has been with Business Fitness since it was just a twinkle in Viv’s eye. As General Manager and official French Champagne Connoisseur she works hands-on between tastings. With no time for children of her own, she makes do with counselling the Business Fitness team with sensitivity, champagne and phrases such as “get over it” and "harden up”. Accountancy firms throughout New Zealand have been known to bow at her arrival as she helps them achieve the "best fit" intranet solution in their practice. Without doubt the only really sensible one of the team her awesome experience in management in various countries allows her to display her “Come Hell or High Water” certificate proudly.
Content
Michele Morgan, Content Manager
Michele works with clients and content providers to develop great procedural documentation to help accountants improve their business. Self confessed Nerd of the team and professional pen-pusher, she has an Honours degree in English Literature and has worked in large public institutions all her life… until now. Now she is having more fun with Business Fitness NZ than she ever expected to during business hours. Though unfortunately only semi-numerate, she asks all accounting professionals to speak to her slowly, using short words. However, she does undertake to spell them absolutely correctly.
Rosemarie Agnew, Content Research Manager
Rosemarie comes with an impressive history in administration and management, including seven years’ experience as a practice manager and work as a legal executive. With her understanding of compliance requirements, employment practice and best practice office management in the accounting industry, it gives us a huge charge that she is researching and developing content for Business Fitness NZ. You would think, with all this, that she might be somewhat on the quiet side, a retiring soul whose idea of a good time was rereading Jane Austen and exploring the more obscure Twinings Teas. We at Business Fitness are happy to say this is SO not so and we are currently taking courses in remedial party 101 just to keep up. Lion Nathan recognises Rose as an honorary taster of Lion Red and her collection of paraphernalia relating to amber medication is the envy of ale scholars world-wide.
Rachael Perry, Content Coordinator
Rachael works alongside Michele and Rose to make sure each content update is full of useful tools and information (much like Santa’s workshop). Rachael has a background in customer service for the IT industry as well as a BA from Otago. She, like Michele, has a passion for the English language and often gets into heated punctuation debates with the Content Manager. Rachael is also unofficial in-house designer, pdf wrestler and webinar arranger. Much like Michele, Rachael and numbers do not mix. We can always count on Rachael for a supply of red lollies and other assorted confectionery in her drawer that she thinks we don’t know about. Onya Rach!
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