Peter's story

The story so far...

I developed my understanding of the corporate environment in a range of fast-moving service industries with high profile clients. After experience in line management, I became an HR Manager for a leading hotel group, then a Marketing Manager, a National Account Manager, and a Manager of Learning & Development for American Express - a high intensity crucible for learning that set me in good stead for becoming the coach I am today.

Since becoming an independent consultant, coach and facilitator over 15 years ago, I have worked with executives, and senior managers in private, public and voluntary sectors including multi-cultural organisations. I've also launched and ran a successful learning and development consultancy with my business partner, Ian Mackenzie. I am now also working as a coach supervisor to many professional coaches and have set up a number of coach supervision groups.  I benefit from regular supervision and maintain an active CPD leaning journal, to sustain my accreditation.

I regularly work in the related areas of Leadership, Change, Performance Management, and Communication Skills, and use real scenarios in workshops whenever possible, and work with actors when appropriate.

My key skills are:

• creative learning design, drawing on accelerated learning, NLP, appreciative inquiry, story telling, solutions focus, and self-directed approaches to learning
• as an effective and persuasive communicator and networker
• as a mentor, coach, coach supervisor, and facilitator of learning groups and teams
• in creating strong relationships with clients to co-develop new areas of work
• in developing management and leadership skills - from team leaders to senior managers
• in drawing on principles of the "learning organisation" and on current thinking in management, leadership, coaching and learning strategies

My credentials include:

• Chartered Member of Institute of Personnel & Development
• Accredited Member of the Association for Coaching since 2010
• NCFE Diploma in Performance Coaching in 2005
• Diploma & accreditation in Coaching Supervision in 2008 from the Coaching Supervision Academy
• MA - Learning in Organisations in 2001, Brighton University
• Wide variety of recent continuing personal development , including NLP Practitioner Diploma, FIRO 'B' accreditation, Appreciative Inquiry 'qualified', Team Facilitation skills training
• Approved to administer Thomas International profiles for Personal Profile Analysis (DISC) & General Intelligence Assessment (GIA), for individuals and teams
• Professional Indemnity Insurance cover

Corporate experience includes:

• Manager of Learning & Development - American Express Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Direct Marketing Manager - Retail Industry, American Express, UK & Ireland
• National Account Manager - Retail Industry, American Express, UK & Ireland
• Regional HR and Training Manager - Forté Hotel Group
• Chair of the Board of Directors of a highly successful performance arts organisation in the South East

Peter's profile to download:

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Coach supervision groups via 'meetups'

Horsham meetup (view details)
Tunbridge meetup (view details)

Some of my key influences include:

Chris Stagg - for his concepts of 'choice, chance and fate' and 'The Hero's Adventure', plus workshop collaborations to create dynamic scripts, and for his superb direction of actors.

Edna Murdoch - my coach supervisor - for introducing me to the world of coach supervision, and for the excellent learning from the Coach Supervision Academy

John Kotter - for his work on leadership

Jane Revell - for her NLP teaching

Peter Senge - for his amazing work on learning organisations and culture: The 5^th Discipline, The Dance of Change and various 'Fieldbooks'

Alexander Caillét, Doug Silsbee, David Rock and Robin Shohet for their outstanding work in the field of coaching and transformation

Robert Dilts - for his insight into NLP and coaching

Nancy Kline - for her interesting work on The Thinking Environment and Time to Think

Some of my other passions include:

West African drumming - I run regular workshops for beginners and improvers. Corporate drum workshops can also be arranged to aid teambuilding, better communications, etc.

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