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The Australia-New Zealand Business Bridge

the ditch. What Australians and New Zealanders both call the Tasman Sea, as if two thousand kilometres of ocean were a gutter between neighbours.

Take a tour of the Australia-New Zealand Bridge Who holds each side of the ditch

What this is

The Australia-New Zealand Business Bridge is for New Zealand businesses that want Australian clients, partners or investors, and for Australian firms that want a trusted contact on the other side of the Tasman.

The two countries share a language, a time zone that is only two hours apart and free movement of people, so on paper doing business across the Tasman is easy. In practice Australia has about five times the population and is harder to read from Auckland, and a New Zealand firm can be overlooked in Sydney simply for being unknown. A referral from someone who knows both sides changes that.

A person on each side of the Tasman

Australians and New Zealanders look alike to outsiders and notice every difference themselves. Each side of this Bridge has its own host, living there, who knows how business gets done at home and which doors are worth knocking on.

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This seat is open

The founding Australian host seat is open. One person in Australia will hold this side. Someone Australian business already trusts, who wants to choose the first members personally and bring them across the ditch.

Talk to us about it

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Larri Wallbridge

Larri Wallbridge

Host, New Zealand · Fit for Business

What if, instead of fitting themselves around work, women had the conviction, courage and support to create work that genuinely fits them?

That's the question at the heart of Larri Wallbridge's work. She helps accomplished women expand their inner capacity, understand how they uniquely operate at their best and create work aligned with who they are at their core, work that energises rather than diminishes them and enables greater prosperity, impact and freedom on their own terms.

Founder of Fit for Business, Larri brings 30+ years across business, human behaviour, leadership, talent, organisational transformation and coaching, including founding and growing a successful cultural transformation business in South Africa.

Through Fit by Design, her flagship experience, Larri brings carefully curated groups of women together to deeply understand their unique inner wiring, uncover what's constraining them and solve real work and business challenges. Each woman develops a highly personalised map of how her mind, emotions and energy naturally work together, almost a user manual for herself, helping her better understand how she makes decisions, where her strengths lie, what energises or drains her and the environments in which she is most likely to thrive.

Rather than putting women into another box, the intention is the opposite: greater self-trust and freedom from trying to succeed according to somebody else's operating system.

Underpinning this is Larri's Wealth Energetics framework, which explores how our inner world shapes what we create and our capacity to prosper, helping women become more intentional about where, how and with whom they invest their energy, value and potential.

More about Larri

How a referral crosses the ditch

Worth a read

Read How does a New Zealand business win clients and partners in Australia?

A plain guide for New Zealand business owners who want Australian clients, partners or investors, and for Australian firms looking across the Tasman. Why being close is not the same as being known, how the two markets differ, and why a personal referral does what a cold pitch cannot.

See it for yourself

Across the ditch is how either side talks about the other, half fond and half rivalrous, and it is fair: the flight is short, the clocks are two hours apart and people move between the two countries freely. What is not short is the distance between a good firm in Wellington and the right buyer in Brisbane, when neither knows the other exists. One introduction from someone who knows both closes it.

Take a tour of the Australia-New Zealand Bridge