Lawrence’s Bios

Lawrence Lewis Green

Very Short Bio

Lawrence Green is an expert in leadership, entrepreneurship and sales. His goal is to assist people to make the most of their ability for amazing results. He is an entertaining speaker who presents powerful insights and ideas in an inspiring and practical way.

Short Bio

Lawrence Green is an expert in leadership, entrepreneurship and sales. He is the director of Venture Education a consultancy that specialises in helping growing businesses to achieve success more easily and more quickly. Lawrence holds various qualifications including a Master of Commerce and Administration and a Master of Philosophy (Psychology). He has run his own business for 14 years, spent 10 years as a teaching fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and is also a sport psychology consultant with a particular passion for golf. The unique feature of his presentations is the way he presents powerful insights and ideas in an entertaining, inspiring and practical way.

Long Bio

Lawrence Green is an expert in leadership, entrepreneurship and sales. The call to being an entrepreneur has been present in Lawrence from a young age. At 11 he identified a potential source of pocket money and he grew and sold vegetable seedlings and vegetables to the local supermarket. Being young and seeing that nobody else in his immediate environment did this kind of thing he decided he should “settle down” and get a good education.

Once he got that out of his system he embarked on a corporate career in his mid twenties. His plan had been to work for large corporates for ten years and after that be ready to launch his own management consultancy. Unfortunately, he soon realised he was completely unsuited to life in the corporate sector and went into business ten years earlier than he planned.

In effect, this meant he had to put himself through his own apprenticeship as he developed the skill sets necessary for succeeding in business. “Setting up a consultancy without really knowing how to train, coach, sell or run a business definitely created a few challenges” says Lawrence. Fourteen years later, Lawrence  is the director of Venture Education a consultancy that specialises in helping growing businesses to achieve success more quickly and easily.

Lawrence’s interest in entrepreneurship grew through wanting to find better strategies for solving his own business problems and through his work in assisting other business owners and entrepreneurs to become successful. It quickly became apparent to him that the difference that made a difference in business was more psychological than technical and he set about unfolding the structure of excellence in this area. The result is his book The Kiwi Effect.

It is Lawrence’s belief that we have an incredible pool of entrepreneurial talent in this country but that we haven’t yet learned how to harness it effectively as a nation. His personal vision involves being able to assist thousands of Kiwi entrepreneurs and innovators to make the most of their abilities so that not only do their businesses become more successful but they make a fuller contribution to their communities and the country as a whole.

If you would like to learn more, or have Lawrence create a tailored presentation, then contact Lawrence here.