Peter is a leadership coach, former senior business leader and Chairman. At the core of his beliefs, is a passion for protecting the environment, social justice and enabling high performance through people development. Action oriented, he thrives on listening, supporting and challenging, with his coaching work grounded in senior leadership experience in industry, charities and the NHS. In addition to performance enhancement, client work is focussed on career change, promotions, mobility and cross-cultural challenges.

Coaching Philosophy and Approach

Peter’s guiding principle is one of recognising the individuality of each and every coachee, and adapting his skills, techniques and approach accordingly. He loves coaching people from all types of backgrounds, fed by his own multi-cultural upbringing, a fascination with world-wide cultures and a passion for travel.

He is also a strong believer in continuous personal growth, and approaches his coaching with a view to continually developing his own learning, trying new and different approaches to help best deliver an optimum coaching experience for his clients. This includes introducing discussions about the wider impacts that clients’ leadership could have, based on a strong value set anchored in the aims of fairness in the wider community.

Peter has a calm and encouraging style, inspiring individuals to develop new, personal and contextual insights to fulfil untapped leadership potential. He develops high trust relationships, enabling coachees to fully focus on their own values and beliefs and how that impacts their leadership. This in turn facilitates appropriate balance between often needed challenge, with support and motivation. He is able to skilfully implement a wide range of tools and questioning techniques, to steer clients to impactful and meaningful actions and behaviours in their organisational setting.

Background

Peter held senior director roles with Kraft Foods, with over 20 years’ international achievement in Marketing, R+D and Business Development. As Global Category Director he succeeded in highly complex leadership roles with both internal and external multi-functional and multi-cultural teams.

Having experienced the transformational power that coaching can bring, Peter become a coach and facilitator. For the past 15 years, he has directed his passion to the professional coaching of teams and individuals in all corners of the world – across the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the US.

He has also used his skills in Non-executive Director roles in charities and the NHS, and brings a powerful, performance enhancing, coaching mindset in these roles. He was Chairman at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a major, two hospital acute organisation, for nearly 6 years, including the pandemic until April 2022.

Client Testimonials

“The coaching experience with Peter, has been invaluable in fostering self-awareness, strengthening my leadership capabilities, and shaping a more authentic and compassionate leadership style. Peter has a remarkable ability to create a relaxed and comfortable environment. Our sessions feel less like formal coaching and more like genuine conversations, yet they are highly effective in identifying and addressing challenges.” 

Arun Chandran, Chief Operating Officer. Torbay and South Devon NHS FT

“Some of Peter’s challenges have been tough, but by creating an environment where both successes and failures can be discussed constructively, this has always resulted in development and improvements that have been recognised back in the workplace. In my case this was connected with moving from a Functional leader to an Executive leader in a multi-national business. The use of toolsets in the beginning to gauge leadership development areas was great to help define clear objectives and outcomes to the coaching against which progress can be measured.”                                        

Nick Jones, Technical Director, Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Partnerships – Saint-Gobain UK/Ireland

“It was my first experience of coaching and Peter could not have been more helpful in guiding me through the process. I am still using the skills I developed through our open and robust conversations. Peter ensured he understood my engagement style and created a very safe space to openly share. He has a wealth of personal experience that brings a resonance to his questioning and challenges which allowed me to take personal control of my development. I continue to use the approach to look to grow even after our coaching sessions finished.” 

Eliana Sydes, Head of Financial Life Strategy, Y TREE

Qualifications/Other Credentials

• BSc from Durham University.

• Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching from Henley Business School (University of Reading).

• Certified in The Leadership Circle Profile 360.

• Honorary Fellow (Leadership) at the University of Gloucestershire.

• External Governor at Gloucestershire College.

• Various responsible roles in the charity sector.