Peter Hyson
Senior Consultant

Peter brings more than 20 years experience in training, coaching and consultancy. For the last nine years he has specialised in leadership development, working with both individuals and strategic teams to boost high performance. He has clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Recent consultancies include working with Directors in Professional Services promoted because of their exceptional technical skills adjust to learning people-leadership skills; a major Organisation Development project with a Government Department to re-assess its work-culture and

“After at least four separate careers, the key theme – and what excites me - is helping people and organisations exceed their expectations, to feel they have power and influence.”

These portfolio careers also reflect an eclectic range of business skills and interests, including story-writing, for both business and pleasure and he will shortly be publishing a book about coaching and the “third IQ” - spirituality.

As well as coaching, Peter has particular specialism in:

1. Large-scale, multi-site consultation exercises, engaging key stakeholders (up to 4000), deliberating and gaining active commitment for focussed implementation
2. Facilitating interventions that enable organisations to realign their  vision and effectively motivate staff in implementation
3. Large-scale OD (e.g. working with a large northern Local Authority as it implemented privatisation of a key responsibility – education - so that motivation, commitment, efficiency and effectiveness are maximised)
4. Setting up and running Action Learning Sets so that participants take responsibility for their own sustainable learning, focussed on business objectives

Peter is qualified to administer the Myers Briggs type Indicator (MBTI) and System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA). He has a Masters in Change Management & Organisation Development. He is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, the International Federation of Coaching and the Association for Coaching. For work-life balance, he is also a Magistrate in London, an active gym-user and enjoys walking and travel.  He has 2 + 2 children and is married to Hilary.