About Viv

Viv Brownrigg is a Chartered Accountant and the CEO and founder of Business Fitness NZ , an organisation specialising in the systemisation and performance improvement of NZ accounting businesses.

Viv was made partner in a five partner practice at the age of 28 and began sole practice with a modest fee base six years later. Over the next seven years she grew the business five fold to a thriving and highly profitable three director practice. She remains a director of that same Te Puke based practice; The Business Results Group Ltd.

Viv commenced consulting to the accountancy industry ten years ago. Her credentials include presenting to more than 2,000 accountants in Australia on the NZ GST experience, co-authoring The Australian Accountant’s GST Manual and being a keynote speaker at countless NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants events. She is also the creator and author of the biggest benchmarking survey in the New Zealand accounting profession, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (published annually), as well as mastermind of The Accountants’ Big Day Out.

Viv’s consulting experiences and abilities cover the full spectrum of practice challenges and concerns and are relevant to every accounting business in New Zealand. Her assignments include assisting practices to merge and de-merge, to buy and sell fees; conducting staff retention surveys, client and team advisory boards; facilitating partner alignment programmes; facilitating and presenting at partner and team conferences and retreats; implementing organisational restructures, partner recruitment and retirement, conflict resolution, behavioural profiling, detailed succession planning, practice management and development programmes, mentoring, and multi-practice coaching clinics.

Early 2009 Viv launched her consulting business, Viv Brownrigg Consulting Ltd, and is now fully committed to sharing her talents and abilities with the industry she is most passionate about.