Philip J Bradbury

I tried and gave up impressing others ...

I spent 20 years in a boring job to impress my father. I finally realised he wasn’t impressed with an accountant son so I slunk sideways into business coaching and teaching and wondered why I’d avoided what I loved for so long. 20 years later, I still love teaching/coaching and have done it ever since, in different countries and in different guises:

• Business coaching in NZ, UK and Australia

• University lecturing in NZ and UK

• Personal development workshops in NZ and Sth Africa

• Grief counselling in NZ

• Men’s groups in NZ

• AIDS workshops in Sth Africa

I started living

From time to time, I played in other occupations, just because I could:

• Busking

• Building houses

• Truck driving, reporter/photographer for a newspaper

• Magazine columnist then editor

• Magazine publisher

• Commissioning editor of books

• Writer of 19 books (to date)

I’ve become a Jack of all trades, master of some and a Master of Change, so can help you with your change.

Along the way I picked up some qualifications:

• BBS – Bachelor of Business [Economics & Accountancy majors] degree.

• ACA – Qualified Accountant.

• CAT – Certificate in Adult Teaching.

• Diploma of Leadership & Management

• Diploma of Business

• Diploma in Transactional Analysis

• Grief Counselling

• Life Coaching

Life is not short - it's the longest thing you'll ever do!

I’m here to tell you that you don’t need permission to do DIFFERENT things in this lifetime. Making a change will not be the end of anything … it will be the start of something amazing!

Also, nothing is wasted. I gave up accounting but that set of skills allowed me to work as a corporate trainer in England and to do my own accounts. Nothing you have done will be lost if you change – everything counts and nothing is for nothing!