Inspire: February 2020 with Richard van den Engel
Date and Time
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
6:45 AM - 8:00 AM NZDT
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Doors open 6.45am | Session begins 7.00am
Location
Cafe Agora
13B Kent Street, Frankton
Fees/Admission
Free event
Breakfast - Bircher Muesli $12.00+GST
Description
Join us for the first Inspire event of 2020 with Richard van den Engel.
Richard is a draftsperson turned accountant turned car dealer. Richard joined the Ebbett group, a family business, in 2012 first in a group role aligning systems and processes across the group before taking the helm of then Ebbett Prestige, the Audi/Volkswagen/Skoda branch.
He led that business to Audi dealer of the year and Volkswagen dealer of the year in both 2016 and 2017 before jumping ship to lead Ebbett group's Toyota business, Ebbett Toyota as CEO where he is now.
Richard is passionate about leadership and employee engagement as the primary driver of business success - he thinks Richard Branson sums it up best in his famous quote "if you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers; it's that simple".
The Ebbett group was started over 90 years ago in 1928 by two brothers, Alf and Ron Ebbett on Hood street, only metres away from today's Holden dealership. Ben van den Engel, Richard's father, took over in 1987 in the middle of the stock market crash rebuilding the group to what it is today, representing 15 brands across 14 locations from Wellington to Pukekohe. Famous for customer experience, the Ebbett group is always innovating, most recently establishing Hamilton's only carshare initiative Loop carshare.