Peter Smith

Based in Sydney, Australia, Peter has been managing, leading, consulting, coaching, training and facilitating within public and private sector organisations for the past 20 years.

For the past 7 years Peter has been one of a select group of facilitators flown in to flash points on mission critical assignments with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and South Sudan.

When deployed, he is responsible for taking teams through mindfulness exercises to aid in decision making and problem solving, as well as strategic planning, leadership, communication, presentation skills and conflict resolution techniques.

Peter also coaches senior executives on mindfulness and the neuroscience of optimal performance with leading blue chip organisations around the world.

His work in this arena is supported by accreditations in the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intel- ligence Test, and the My Brain Solutions Neuroscience assessment tool.

Peter’s recent contracts have involved an organisation wide culture change program with one of Australia’s oldest institutions, a global roll-out of consulting skills training to one of the big four accounting firms and leadership development training and coaching for the United Nations Secretariat.

Peter has worked across a wide cross section of the business community: media and communications, professional services, banking and finance, utilities, hospitality, government, community and NGO groups delivering to groups as diverse as senior defence personnel and health care directors, and from finance executives to frontline manufacturing employees.

Peter’s career began in the publishing and public relations industry in a frontline management role before advancing to senior roles in human resources, learning and development, and quality assurance. He was responsible for the creation of a company wide coaching framework in his most recent role, and regular writes on organisational change in publications here in Australia and overseas.

He has the formal qualifications of a bachelor in Adult Education and Training from Melbourne University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Change and Consulting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Peter has is also accredited in the Myer Briggs Type Indicator, The D.I.S.C. profiling tool, a Master Practitioner in NLP, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, an experiential learning traineeship from the U.S. and Internal Auditor Certification from SAI Global.