Darren Pratley
- Consultant / Coaching
- Growth
- Leadership
- Management
- Motivational
- Sales
Darren Pratley is an award winning international speaker - New Zealand Speaker of the Year and Educator Excellence Award 2025
He has worked in many highly competitive industries over a career of more than 30 years, learning and developing insights and skills that now provide a very unique proposition to his clients.
Having been in many leadership roles and challenging sales environments at all levels of business, he now works comfortably with high performing teams and those that aspire to be there.
Darren understands the changing nature of business and the fast paced environments they work in. Components like technology, customer expectations and systems and processes all add to the modern challenges of business.
With Darren’s infectious energy and positive drive to succeed, everyone from executive teams right through to front line team members realise greater success is just around the corner.
Darren’s extensive speaking, training and sector change experience makes him a highly booked “Tactical Strategist”. He takes his audiences on a journey of engagement, fun but with those important change insights that help create the change.
- Change the Result
- Self Employed / Contractor Success
- The leadership principles that creates performance change
- Your customer is leaving and how to get them back
- Six topics that change your life and your business
- Bespoke Event
Thanks for all your work you have been outstanding to work with. You take the time to understand our leadership priorities and then tailors you training sessions to make the greatest impact with our events. What I value most is your ability to bridge strategy with action — equipping our team with practical tools and fresh ideas they can confidently take to market. The result has been sharper execution, stronger engagement, and a team that is better aligned to where we want to go as a business.
Darren Pratley is one of a kind. He is a modern-day ring master, with a natural gift of making everyone he meets, feel special. Darren's ability to educate the audience about the commercial realities of Real Estate, is second to none. The content he provides is not only relevant and up to pace with an ever-changing market, but it is delivered in a way that keeps the audience engaged - which is no mean feat when dealing with Real Estate Salespeople. Although Darren brings enormous energy to all his presentations, when required, he adjusts his delivery to 'match the room'. When confronted with a difficult question, Darren is also able to listen and distil the essence of a problem into a relevant and succinct solution. A rare skill indeed and one the key reasons why we ask Darren to deliver regular training to our team. We really enjoy working with Darren - his passion is infectious and the value he provides is real. In a world where 'talk is cheap' it's nice to know we have a trusted advisor in Darren.
