Craig Lewis Biography
Craig Lewis,
Director, Lead to Succeed
Craig holds a Masters degree from the University of Western Australia. He has been Performance Coach to a large number of New Zealand athletes, including the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games team. He was the inaugural director of the New Zealand Squash Institute, and has been Performance Coach to national champions, world champions and world record holders. He was Performance Coach to the New Zealand Kiwis rugby league team. He played a critical role in assisting the team to break a forty-six year old Sydney losing streak against Australia and ultimately claim the 2005 Gillette Tri-Series in one of rugby league’s greatest ever upsets and this country’s most memorable victories.
Craig's first book, Lead to Succeed: What It Takes To Be The Best, was published in August 2007, and has received significant acclaim from both business leaders and sport coaches alike. His second book, Winning Ways: 101 Tips For Leadership Effectiveness presently awaits publication.
As a consequence of his formal training in Sport and Performance, and his twenty years on international sporting circuits, Craig has acquired a highly developed systems thinking approach to coincide with his leadership positions at the UDC Finance Squash Institute, Quality Finance Ltd, Sport Life New Zealand Ltd and Lead to Succeed Ltd.
Craig is the source of leading editorial pertaining to corporate goal-setting practices and personal development strategies in The New Zealand Herald, and frequently provides comments to New Zealand's leading men's magazine, M2. He is regularly asked to provide comment in both the print and television media.
He has become the speaker of choice for many New Zealand companies seeking a competitive edge over their rivals, where his successful and endurable strategies form the foundation of leadership and personal development training. More recently, he is gaining a burgeoning reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading business leadership coaches, working with high caliber business professionals from some of New Zealand’s most prolific business houses.
Presentation
Values, Influence and Other High Performance Essentials
This is a unique and informative insight that blurs the edges between performance in sport and performance in business. It’s designed to show business leaders how to transition value statements into living processes and gets others on board in the process. It’s effective communication at its best, encompassing all the ingredients that culminate in work productivity, confidence and satisfaction.
Last updated 12:38:50 pm Tuesday 20 October, 2009