Business Development Company (BDC) believes that growing people is the key to growing business. By listening to our customers and supplying creative and innovative solutions to their problems, we have been helping businesses to flourish since 1960.
In mid-2010, when a key contract ended and the company’s shareholders withdrew their support, we saw an opportunity to expand BDC’s scope and operation. We gulped a few times, trembled a bit and then went for it. Our customers backed us all the way.
Since then, BDC has developed and grown by using the very tools we offer our customers: whole brain thinking insights, training and business results. That’s how we know our methodology works.
We’re proud of the way we do business. We aim to keep ourselves at the cutting edge of our field of expertise but we also uphold traditional values of honesty, integrity and respect. We think it’s cool to be an ethically and socially responsible company. And although we definitely enjoy having fun, we understand what it’s like for businesses facing change and uncertainty because we were once there ourselves.
It makes us even better at what we do.
Business Development Company Team

The BDC team: from left to right and top to bottom: Liz Crawshaw, Maegan McIssac, Richard Chadderton, Pip Lynch, Julie Varney (Director), Jenny van Workum, Andrea Hay, Louise Crowe, Chantell Bramley
About BDC
Business Development Company believes that growing people is the key to growing business. BDC provides whole brain thinking insights, training and business results.
BDC works with people in high-vis gear, overalls, lab coats and hair nets – not just people in suits. Based in Nelson, New Zealand, we offer training nationwide.