For New Zealand manufacturers

Add $50K+ more profit while working 10 fewer hours a week.

New Zealand's only business coach who actually built a factory. Bernard grew a manufacturing company from zero to 200 tons a day with 75 staff. Now he helps Kiwi manufacturers find the profit leaking out of theirs.

★★★★★ 5.0 Google rating NZ Best Workplace 2x AME Lean Tours
Bernard's factory floor, the Lean Cave
200
tons a day,
built from zero
Bernard Powell teaching manufacturers
The unfair advantage

Most coaches have read a book on business. Bernard ran the factory.

Anyone can hand you a theory. Bernard grew a manufacturing company from nothing to 200 tons a day, turned it into a NZ Best Workplace, and got invited twice onto the global Lean tours that operators fly across the world to study.

He knows what it is to meet a real payroll, run a real line, and carry the whole thing on your back. That is exactly the owner he built The Business Gym for.

  • Grew a factory 0 to 200 tons a day with 75 staff
  • NZ Best Workplace and Westpac Service Excellence
  • 2x AME Global Lean Culture Tours
  • $150M+ in personal sales over a career in the trenches
Sound familiar?

If the factory cannot run without you, it owns you.

Most manufacturers are not short on work. They are short on time, margin, and a business that runs when they step away.

You are stuck in the day-to-day

Quoting, firefighting, chasing the floor. The work that grows the business never gets done because you are buried in the work that runs it.

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The margin is leaking

Revenue looks fine, but profit does not. Pricing, quoting and follow-up gaps quietly bleed the money you should be keeping.

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You cannot step away

Take a week off and the place stalls. Without systems, the business is only ever as strong as your presence on the floor.

Free for Kiwi manufacturers

Find the profit leaking out of your factory.

Answer a few questions about your business and Bernard's team builds you a custom Profit Roadmap, then walks you through exactly what to fix first on a free session. No charge, no pressure.

  • A custom roadmap for your factory, not generic advice
  • The biggest profit leaks, ranked by what to fix first
  • A free session with the team to walk it through
Free roadmap

The Profit Roadmap

For New Zealand manufacturers ready to add profit and buy back their time. Takes a few minutes to start.

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What owners say

The real deal, on camera and in writing.

Manufacturers and operators who stopped being the bottleneck.

★★★★★ 5.0 on Google · 125 reviews · 1,000+ owners coached · 8 countries
Trent Koehn testimonial
Trent KoehnUp 50% revenue, and 22 to 25 hours a week backGreenEase
Chris Sullivan testimonial
Chris SullivanReplaced chaos with systems across the businessYour Local Tyre Centre
Abe Godsell testimonial
Abe Godsell100+ improvements now happen without him thereEdusafe Group
Josh testimonial
JoshUp 36% revenue, and no longer needed for everything
Tim testimonial
TimNow gets 3 months of work done in 3 weeks
Mitchell testimonial
MitchellSaved 9 to 11 hours every single week
★★★★★

"Sydney Food & Packaging has just started our lean journey and needed some pointers and guidance. Bernard graciously hosted my leadership team for a tour of his facility. Bernard's enthusiasm and positive attitude is amazing."

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Trevor GottliebSydney Food & Packaging
Google
★★★★★

"I've been working with Bernard over the past few months. He has been a game changer for our business with his business coaching brain and mindset. No fluff, no BS, just the things we need to hear. He has given us multiple strategies."

YL
Your Local Tyre CentreBusiness owner
Google
★★★★★

"Our lean journey since seeing you two months ago has been pretty amazing! You certainly helped light a spark amongst my team and myself! We've certainly made some leaps and bounds on the lean journey."

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RakeshBusiness owner, NZ
Google
★★★★★

"Bernard has been an absolute wealth of knowledge! If you are starting out on your Lean journey I highly recommend reaching out to Bernard. Lean is hard work that makes everything easy is one of my favourite sayings, and having a great coach makes all the difference."

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Rachael SimmondsBusiness owner
Google
★★★★★

"Bernard is all go. Full of insights and immediate action. We've been blown away by just how quickly PBA implements and starts bringing positive change. Sometimes the simple things, with the right approach, can be the most effective!"

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Adrian DayBusiness owner
Google
★★★★★

"We have had great help from Bernard at PBA shifting mindset and getting stuff done that we would have in all reality just never happened. Thoroughly recommend a strategy session with Bernard to help you see through the clutter, noise and focus on what matters."

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Patrick WhitemanBusiness owner
Google

Your factory should pay you to leave, not trap you inside.

Get your free Profit Roadmap and see exactly where the money and the hours are going, from the only coach who has actually built a factory.

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