Our Story.
Working across Australia - New Zealand and the United States.
Our Mission: We are dedicated to empowering your business's growth and development by offering expert consultation, identifying specific needs, and equipping you and your team with tailored tools and strategies to achieve sustainable success and desired outcomes.
Throughout our journey, we have had the honour of facilitating thousands of business skills' development workshops and providing coaching and mentorship to individuals across a wide array of roles. From Directors and General Managers to professionals in Sales, Operations, Marketing, and beyond, our experience spans a diverse range of industries and expertise.
Passionate Leaders
In Business Skills Development
What we do
Our solutions are designed to meet the unique needs of each business, encompassing bespoke training, live workshops, and comprehensive online courses, all focused on enhancing essential business skills.
Since 2008, we've leveraged our extensive experience in business skills' development to provide a unique and deeply personal approach, ensuring you and your team are in expert hands. Our methodology is rooted in an inclusive understanding of diverse backgrounds and experiences, fostering growth across all levels—from nurturing sales and leadership teams to supporting seasoned professionals on their development journeys.
Tailored to fit specific business needs, our bespoke sessions aim to achieve precise outcomes, ensuring that our solutions are directly aligned with your company's goals.
For a deeper dive, we offer extensive online courses spanning three key areas: sales, leadership and management, and communications. These courses are structured for lasting impact and practical application.
Our personalised coaching plans provide tailored guidance and support, helping individuals refine their skills and achieve their personal and professional objectives.
Each year, we host numerous webinars open to all clients and contacts. These topic-specific workshops provide valuable insights and strategies that can be immediately applied within your organisation.
To help you choose, we've outlined which options best suit:
1. Small to Large Organisations with Distributed Teams
- Optimal Solution: 10-Month Live Online Courses
- Why Choose This?: These courses are perfect for companies wanting to offer consistent training across multiple locations without the logistics and cost of travel. They provide flexibility and comprehensive learning over an extended period. Watch our promo video here.
2. Companies Seeking Team Cohesion and Shared Learning
- Optimal Solution: Bespoke Training
- Why Choose This?: Our bespoke sessions are designed to foster collective growth and shared learning experiences, making them ideal for teams looking to advance together in a significant, unified way.
3. Businesses Focused on Individual Development
- Optimal Solution: One-on-One Coaching Plans
- Why Choose This?: These plans offer personalised guidance, ensuring that individual team members receive targeted support to develop their skills and achieve personal goals.
4. Organisations Looking for Priority Access and Ongoing Support
- Optimal Solution: CLUB +50 Membership
- Why Choose This?: With access to an exclusive community, continuous online access and priority bookings, this membership is perfect for businesses that want to ensure ongoing development and priority resources throughout the year.
5. Cost-Conscious Businesses with Remote Teams
- Optimal Solution: Live Online Workshops
- Why Choose This?: Online workshops are an excellent choice for companies needing to minimise travel costs while still benefiting from interactive, skill-based training sessions available to remote teams.
We're on the journey with you and we love what we do.
Our seasoned expertise spans decades in sales, management, operations, marketing, and business ownership, equipping us to lead by example and confidently navigate the complexities of business and leadership. We are so assured of the transformative impact of our collaboration that we proudly offer a satisfaction guarantee.
Your success is our passion and commitment.
Motion Training - Our Team
Richard Klein Ovink
Managing Director Senior Business Skills Trainer
And Executive Coach
My privilege is imparting knowledge & expertise in business and people development. I’ve been on the journey with many, helping them find and achieve greater success in all of life. Like to know more? Read my book LEGACIES, to learn a little more about me, what we do, and what we’ve done to create and live an amazing life.
Kelly Klein Ovink
Senior Business Skills Trainer
Executive Business Skills Coach
Engaging, entertaining and connecting with everyone is what I love and do. And then my success is enabling and watching people empower themselves to generate outcomes beyond even their expectations.
Baylin Larking
Caring For Our Customers Executive PA
Luke Larking
Selling Our Value & Dream New Business Development
& Media Director
Isaac Klein Ovink
Selling Our Value & Dream New Business Development
PJ Klein Ovink
Building Our Community Social Media Marketing
Natacha Bade
Business Skills Coach and Trainer
Free Weekly Training From Motion
Watch Our Promo Video Here
Heirloom International Ltd
“We have worked with Motion for over three years and achieved excellent results. The first training session was not like anyone else. Concepts and tools were presented in the context of our business and Motion were very preceptive in helping us define issues and key success factors. Even though we run group sessions, motion interact with each person in a naturally tailored or personal way and therefore reached everyone as if it were their own course After three years Motion have been instrumental in developing our common sales culture and our way of doing things.
Motions training has set us apart and increased our effectiveness and been central to creating close and effective customer relationships. Our team feels well equipped and competent for most situations that arise in the field. Motion are a seamless extension of our business and a vital part of our success”
- Graham Rea, CEO
Versatile
I have been in the Sales Industry for over 35 years and have attended many sales courses throughout New Zealand and Australia, run by some of the top trainers and motivators in the world. Over the last 12 months, Versatile Homes has given me the opportunity of attending both a beginner’s and an advanced Sales Development Course run by Richard & Kelly from Motion Training. This has been an amazing journey that has given me a whole new direction. The knowledge, friendship, expertise and guidance I have received has been incredible. Richard and Kelly have really got inside my head turned my thinking upside down and spat me out with a whole new path and a little bit of direct in a very expressive personality. To be able to be a part of such a small, motivated the group has been a wonderful setting to absorb the wisdom shared by Kelly and Richard. Richard and Kelly – thank you so much again for a mind-blowing experience.
- Maureen Maunder, Sales Executive
Westpac Banking
“Thank you Kelly! The course was exceptionally useful to use. The roleplays brought the examples to life and everyone took great learnings away.”
- Nina Hassal, Customer Solutions
Pezet Matheson
"I'm so excited for the clarity that Richard and Kelly have brought to me and our business. Since working with them we have achieved an unbelievable amount and we would not have got to this point with out Them. Their insight, experience, wisdom and foresight have led us and developed such incredible change. They are an integral part of our business and we would not be the success we are without them."
- Jayde Pezet, Managing Director
Base Up
"On a personal level, working with Richard has been greatly beneficial. His understanding of personal development and their compassionate guidance have helped me navigate through challenges with confidence and clarity. Through thought-provoking conversations and tailored strategies, he has empowered me to set meaningful goals, cultivate a better mindset and approach certain situations with the tools to produce a good outcome."
- Jason Muir, General Operations Manager
Fletcher Reinforcing
“We love the world class, "developed locally", training material that Motion delivers. We are seeing skills grow and behaviours develop. Motion has created practical, useable business skills training that works. I would highly recommend to any business.”
- Jonathan White General Manager
Fujifilm
“FUJIFILM have an energetic, active and creative sales force. Motion Training tailored and delivered energetic workshops that totally engaged our group, had an immediate impact and added skills at all levels of experience. We ran sales, negotiating and persuasive presentation workshops that generated excellent buy-in and boosted confidence all round in a difficult economic climate.”
- Peter BonIsch, Sales & Marketing Manager
Elim College
“I’m so glad I got to learn how you lead the process of difficult conversations. Thank you for empowering me to be bold in critical feedback. You made such an impact on my dealing and leadership. Forever grateful.”
- Mandy Hiem Dean & Head Of Department
Viking Group
“At Viking Roofspec, we've been fortunate to have had the folks from Motion Training set alight our sales; marketing; and technical teams for over ten years now. Kelly and Richard aren't just trainers, they're a powerful combo of psychologists; behaviourists; communication specialists; motivators, but most importantly, decent human beings who have done wonders with our team members in helping them connect properly with our customers through effective sales engagement; presentations; and written communication. I couldn't recommend Motion Training enough.”
- Brendon Sutton Sales Manager Roofspec
Versatile
“I cannot speak highly enough of the Sales Training provided by Richard & Kelly. Over the last 8 years, most of our sales team and franchisees underwent at least one or two of their programs with great results. Richard and Kelly demonstrate a deep understanding of sales techniques and strategies, tailoring their approach to suit the specific needs of our industry as well as the different learning styles of our people. The sessions are immensely practical with role-playing and real-world scenario’s keeping everyone engaged and enthusiastic whilst reinforcing learning.
- Paula Price Customer Journey Manager
OOB
Motion Training delivered a tailored training program to progress my sales team to greater results. Kelly has a great way of connecting with the team and creates an engaging, upbeat learning environment. She challenged the status quo and had loads of sales strategies to improve the skills of my team.
My one on one coaching sessions with Richard have been hugely beneficial although at times challenging and confronting. These sessions helped identify skill gaps, challenged how I was thinking about business issues and allowed me to develop strategies to succeed in a safe non-threatening environment.
- Erik Tams, Sales & Marketing Manager
Outside In
Kelly and Richard from Motion have been training and developing our team for a number of years now. The content is exceptional, Kelly and Richard work really well as a team and every one of our staff come away from the training sessions inspired and equipped to be more productive in their roles. Motion training has been an extremely helpful tool to up-skill our staff as our company has grown quickly and we need our people's ability to keep up with our company growth. We’d highly recommend their services, especially for management and sales training.
- Ryan McQuerry, Director
Douglas Pharmaceuticals
Motion has provided excellent training and development through numerous workshops for our 20 -30 middle managers. They are always engaging and connect with every person in the room.
- Heather Jones, Group HR Manager
Waterware
Motion Training has generously improved my communication ability. Richard and Kelly both exude a depth of understanding and experience in person to person interaction, which they deliver effectively. Not only sharpening my professional day to day (when giving presentations or speaking one on one with clients / colleagues, but also my personal interactions outside of work.
- Luis Hughes, Technical Team Leader
Bremworth
"We have used Richard and Kelly for training & personal development of our Sales Team and our Retail Sales Customers for over 8 years, and one of the best things about working with them is their ability to quickly establish rapport with the groups they are working with. This allows for key messages and learning to be transferred with ultimate effect to their audience".
- Dean Chandler, GM NZ Sales
HirePool
Hirepool's vision is to become the NZ hire company of choice for customers and employees’ therefor training & development of our 450+ staff is paramount to the success of the business. Motion’s on-line training system provides our staff and management with the flexibility to fit training courses around their busy work and home lifestyle. It provides those that want to continuously improve, learn, and gain additional skills and get-ahead-in-life an easily assessable, flexible, practical training system.
- Brendan Ross, Group Training Manager
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Want to experience more on your journey? We know and value the difference that can be experienced by growing and developing who we are. All of life becomes more fulfilling, and through this, we live with a greater sense of achievement, satisfaction and peace.
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