Management Team
Brett Morris
CEO of The Fortune Group and General Partner of
Neo Technology Ventures. Brett founded three strategy and business development firms through which he accrued broad-based experience working with hundreds of private and public sector organisations, ranging from start-ups to global Fortune 50 corporations, and spanning more than forty different industries. He has over thirty years of significant management consulting, facilitation and training, change management, business development and technology investment experience.
Spanning Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America, Brett's experience has involved the evaluation and execution of business and sales strategies, business models and processes, market and channel strategies, operating restructures, executive team recruitment and support, and the migration of businesses into offshore markets with globally focused entrepreneurs. Brett graduated with a B.Sc from the University of Auckland.
Steve Brown
Steve is Founder and Chairman of The Fortune Group International. Founded in 1970, The Fortune Group has provided many of the world's most outstanding and successful organisations with training. Steve has personally designed and created numerous multimedia training systems in leadership, sales, change management and personnel effectiveness. Steve authored '13 Fatal Errors Managers Make... and How You Can Avoid Them', a classic management text which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Active for many years in the National Speakers Association, Steve received its highest form of recognition for presenters, the coveted CPAE award.
steve@fortune-group.com
A Personal Message from Steve Brown
I am extremely proud of every organisation that chooses to make us a part of their management team. In doing so we are partnering with them in the development of their most valuable asset, their people.
I am not sure that organisations always realise how much confidence they place in the supplier of the training they utilise. It is a compliment, and a serious responsibility, to be the recipient of this trust because participants get more direct input from me through engaging with our training systems than they will from most managers in their organisation.
In designing and presenting our programs I have done everything within my capability to make sure that the concepts presented are practical and reasonably easy to implement. We know from our experience with client companies that if the ideas and skills are put into practice, the desired results will be achieved.
My purpose is never to stereotype people and require that they agree with me. My purpose is to challenge thinking. I have not developed the only workable approaches to dealing with life's challenges and opportunities.
Our purpose, through the Fortune training programs, is to 'help people help themselves'. Socrates described it best when he said, "You never teach anyone anything; you allow them to discover the truth for themselves."
