“Peter has the ability to share his experience of leadership excellence. His style is collaborative and outcome focused - mixed with layers of humor, humility and patience. This recipe allows Peter to work at a deep level with groups and individuals using coaching, advice and curiosity. This leads to behavioral change that stands with people for years, in and also out the workplace.”

My Background

I am fortunate that I have been able to learn much from other great leaders, coaches and mentors across a variety of roles throughout my working life.

I spent my early professional career in retail, learning principles of customer service and the importance of empathy and accountability. I transitioned into Commercial Finance, working my way up the organization though field service, sales and management roles. I developed my business acumen though Branch and State Leadership roles with the accompanying P&L responsibilities. I still wanted to learn more about running a business and took leadership roles in Risk and Operations to round out my general business skills. About this time I also completed my MBA at Deakin University. Our relatively small but highly profitable Finance organization was bought and sold numerous times by larger institutions. It was eventually acquired by GE in 1999.

I led the coring up of operations across this business prior to accepting the initial Six Sigma role for the Commercial Finance businesses across Australia and New Zealand. I cut my teeth in process and business improvement and led the training and coaching of employees and teams on business impact projects. After several successful years I took an opportunity join the larger GE Consumer Finance business as the Quality Training Leader and Lean leader. Here I expanded my training portfolio to include Change Management, Project Management and Project Leadership. This led to a Corporate role as the Learning Leader across all GE businesses in Australia and New Zealand, and ultimately to the GE Crotonville organization in a global role tied to GE’s cultural transformation.

My learning career has provided me incredible opportunities to create and contribute to global leadership learning strategy, program design, content curation, program management and delivery to countless senior leaders and executive teams both on Campus and around the globe. I had the very great fortune to work with and alongside some of the most incredibly talented people in the industry on projects that addressed challenges in learning operations, technology development, culture change, external partnerships and research.  

I joined the Boeing Company in 2019 in a senior Leadership, Learning and Organizational Capability role across all of their APAC businesses. Working closely with HR, Business and Country Leadership teams I led initiatives to improve the skills and capabilities of its people and the effectiveness of its teams. 

Today, my curiosity has turned to the possibilities that exist when we explore the intersection of human and organizational development. In particular: How we think, learn and grow; How we can better navigate complexity; How we adapt to technology driven disruption, and; How organizations might evolve into more human workplaces.

I have known The People Side and worked alongside members of their team for many years. When the opportunity presented itself to join them in 2021 there was never going to be any hesitation. I look forward to contributing to the important work they do with their clients around the globe.

Why I Work

“I am inspired by our own intentional development as humans to be better versions of ourselves. I believe that the foundation of an organization’s enduring future is built, not by pushing employees to do more, but by giving them the opportunity to be more.

I seek out curious humans and people-centric organizations who are inspired by a purpose to create sustainable value for others, yet recognize that complex problems involving other human beings have no simple answers. I bring a human centered approach to executive and leadership development that focuses on developing distinctly human capabilities.”