Case in Point
Linking Individual Earnings to Team Success
Sales people are working to achieve individual performance goals and rewards. But they are working in an industry where collaboration among members of a sales force is vital to meeting the varied needs of customers. Though the company encourages its reps - through workshops, rallies and such - to work as a team, the company neglects to change the measurements and rewards that drive self-centered behaviors: "I'm gonna be tops... and win the Week in Waikiki." As a result, the company revenue base remains unmoved - an anchor stuck in a mountain of muck.
Peak Performance Group, Inc. changes the goals and rewards not only to spur communication and cooperation, but to ensure that individual earnings depend on the group's success and that everyone involved in a sale, including support personnel, gets a piece of the "payoff pie."
What's more, besides address and capitalizing on human motivations, PPG examines and redesigns whichever business systems or structures also work against collaboration and thwart the company's desired outcomes.
Before the appearance of PPG, the client's "run rate" of sales growth is 4% against a 10% plan. After implementing PPG's advice, the sales department achieves an 18% run rate for the rest of the year.
Skyrocketing the Market Share to 17.5%
A CEO wonders: Why is my company growing only 6% while the marketplace is growing 12% annually? Since our products are ranked either 1 or 2 in the world, the problem must not be in either the products themselves or the technology... but rather in what?
He calls upon the Peak Performance Group, Inc. In its assessment, PPG determines that the client's employees perform superbly as individuals but collaboration between the various functions - Manufacturing and Marketing, for example - is poor to nonexistent.
So a team is assembled, consisting of representatives from all functions involved in a product - from concept to delivery. Team members learn the skills of effective communication, collaboration, decision making and so on. Most important, they learn how to sustain the skills - no one-time wonders they!
Result? Both the team and a grateful CEO watch their company's market share skyrocket to 17.5%.
Rebuilding in Infrastructure, Saving an Industry Superstar
A high-tech company hires an exceptionally talented, publicly touted VP to run a restructured business unit. Within three months the whole organization is in disrepair, and several senior employees are job-hunting. Productivity plummets to virtually zero.
The puzzled President asks Peak Performance Group, Inc, "Should I cut this guy loose?" PPG undertakes an intensive, six-week analysis. It discovers that the company has recently changed and reorganized - from new players in some cases to new responsibility levels for others. In short, the place is in chaos from a lack of clarity about goals and what the individual roles and responsibilities really are.
The VP, in part a victim of the circumstances, is given marching orders to captain the people he inherits and "to get closer to the customers."
Unfortunately the company has not done all it needed to do to make sure employees understand the new organizational structure, the new mission, as well as their new roles and responsibilities, which members of the affected business unit assume the new VP will impose upon them. Hence, a near-fatal disconnect. Their leader, off tending to customers, is unaware of his group's need for focus, support and direction.
So, PPG gives this advice: Slam on the brakes. Urge the VP and President to get together and clarify their common goals. Then allow the VP and his senior staff adequate time (1) to redesign their new enterprise according to the goals, (2) to redesign business, communication and decision-making processes and (3) to create a communication plan for ensuring that all company employees comprehend the new group's charter.
Three months are taken for rebuilding the infrastructure and helping the very capable VP focus, grasp some essentials of group dynamics and assimilate into his new company's culture.
The President, initially skeptical about the efficacy of organizational development, is dazzled by the speed of the group's turnaround. What had looked like an effort requiring 18 to 24 months is accomplished in six. And the VP, in whom much is invested - including a countercultural belief in the need for his fresh perspective - is salvaged and, at his level, becomes a top performer in the industry.
Doubling a Revenue Stream
A company wants to double its revenue stream in three years by increasing its product base. Prospects for reaching the goal look dim, however, because creative experts brought in from outside the organization have difficulty working with those inside; the wizards miss goals, objectives, deadlines.
Peak Performance Group, Inc. enters the picture. It finds that, although the business structure - for the most part - works well, people interactions are broken. So with the help of those involved, PPG builds human processes and redesigns organizational structures to support those processes. PPG also provides development opportunities for defining roles and responsibilities, collaborating, teaming, communicating, problem-solving and decision-making.
Furthermore, the interactions are examined on a business level, an organizational level, a process level, a psychological level, a human/team dynamic level and, wherever any interaction comes in conflict with a business structure; that too is resolved. Thus, as the human processes and structures come in confluence with those of the business, products are born and an improved revenue stream surges onward.
Reversing Plunges in Morale and Product Quality
R&D scientists are being rewarded for how fast they feed new products to market. Their rate of entry goes from 3% to 5% to 15%...then from 18% to 20%. At that point R&D struggles to keep up the pace, but there are not moderating forces. The scientists push things onto Manufacturing, which, burdened with increasing demands, adds a third shift.
Soon employees begin working longer and longer days while grumbling about the toll on their personal lives. The costs of overtime mount. The quality of product deteriorates. The rate of new product-to-market drops to 8%. Finally employees begin leaving the company; among them are outstanding scientists.
Peak Performance Group, Inc. conducts an in-depth organizational assessment. It finds no attention being paid to establishing perpetual, multi-level feedback loops for answering these questions. How much can the system take? How can the system, without eventually self-destructing, be grown in a way that can meet the demands placed upon it? What kind of a reward system will work best to suit appropriate growth?
Organizational redesign and collaborative activities are initiated to settle the issues and adjust pertinent processes, with R&D personnel ultimately being rewarded not for churning out product but rather rewarded for quality, marketable products that can be put through the system without over stressing it. The adjustments, as moderating forces, prevent the blow-up of the business, and valuable scientists no longer jump ship.
PPG Leadership
Peak Performance Group's Leadership team has 25+ years of experience working with global clients to help them develop the strategy necessary to ensure their success in a global competitive marketplace. PPG's leadership team has expertise in a variety of areas, including organizational design and development, strategic planning, high potential and leadership identification and development programs, project and process management, team building/leadership, and human assessment for use in leadership development, identification of high potentials and succession planning.
The leadership team members bring distinct experience to all client engagements which enables them to take a broad and balanced perspective on markets, our clients and their business environments. Rick Maybury's background in organizational psychology enables him to bring a unique perspective to all client engagements, providing our clients with an expertise in redesigning their business to meet changing needs in the workplace. Additionally, Rick is certified in a number of scientifically-validated assessments, providing our clients with expertise in selecting and identifying high potentials. Rick has worked with both public and private organizations, across a wide array of industries. Gina Abudi's expertise is in project and process management, management consulting, and business impact and ROI. Additionally, she has worked with organizations to develop strategic learning & professional development programs for all levels of employees. Gina has worked with organizations in a variety of industries. Martin Howden's experience has been at the senior level within organizations, including CEO roles. His international coaching experience has been across many industries, in both the private and public sector. He has experience in a variety of functional areas within organizations, including marketing, operations and research and development.
PPG's leadership team works with each individual client to ensure a complete understanding of their needs and objectives prior to assigning a PPG associate to work with the client.
Dr. Richard Maybury
Dr. Richard Maybury is an organizational psychologist and the President of Peak Performance Group, Inc. Richard's specialization is in organization behavior, business and organizational assessment, human performance research, motivation, team behavior, executive coaching and adult education. Since 1987, he has applied his specialization to the areas of: leadership, organizational design, organizational change, team development, and human motivation.
Dr. Maybury has worked in over 40 countries and as both a consultant and educator has been conducting research and helping to solve global complex client problems. Dr. Maybury's body of work includes a unique expertise in the design and development of multi-cultural, global enterprises. As examples, specific experience includes working with Japanese-American joint venture pharmaceutical companies, American-Asian-European joint venture high-tech companies and European-based companies building out global business models and operations.
Richard has managed profit centers and corporate learning and organizational development departments for the following companies: the GTE Products Corporation, the General Electric Company, the Geary Corporation, and Applied Learning, Incorporated. He was also a full-time instructor in the Business Information Systems program at Berkshire Community College where he designed and developed two curriculums that were adopted by other institutions of higher learning. Dr. Maybury has served as a faculty member for Boston University, Fairfield University, Post University Graduate School of Business, and the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Dr. Maybury has served over 300 global clients including: IBM, Verizon, Boston University, Westinghouse, Sun Microsystems, ArQule, Inc., Kyowa Hakko Kirin America, LTD., Astra Zeneca, Genzyme, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, Nortel, Bayer, General Electric, Sears, Putnam Companies, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, United Auto Workers, Becton Dickinson, AEG, Kaiser Permanente, Northern Power, Vicor, Wright Express, Zeneca Resins, Hampshire Chemical, Mobil Oil, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Defense, FederalBureau of Investigation, U.S. Air Force, Massachusetts Department of Revenue, and Harvard Community Health Plan. Dr. Maybury holds Top Secret Security clearances with the defense and intelligence organizations.
Richard earned his Doctoral and Masters Degrees in Organizational Psychology from the Fielding Institute and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology and Computer Science from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. In addition Richard has completed work in the MBA program at Babson College and the Masters of Adult Education program at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Richard has also completed the Leadership Educators Program at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Richard's professional memberships include the American Psychological Association, the New England Psychological Association, American Society for Training and Development, and the Association for Psychological Type. Richard's name has appeared in the Who's Who of Global Business Leaders and the Who's Who of Rising Young Americans.
Dr. Martin Howden
Martin Howden, Managing Partner (UK) for Peak Performance Group, has 26 years business experience which he uses as the foundation for his coaching practice established in early 2004.
Martin's business experience included 12 years as a Business Managing Director with ICI, Zeneca and Avecia, with global profit accountability for $250m businesses. Previously he had filled senior roles in Strategic Planning, Marketing, Operations and Research and Development. He has lived in the UK, USA and The Netherlands, as well as working extensively in Asia.
Martin's international coaching experience spans commercial, public and charitable sectors. Specific fields include Law, Education, International Development, Chemicals and Financial Services. His coaching embraces senior executives, support for managers making critical transitions, performance development programmes for those in key roles, and career management issues.
The coaching emphasis is heavily on action planning with a focus on results, based on joint identification by coach and executive of thought and behaviour patterns limiting the achievement of that executive's full potential in the workplace.
Martin has a Masters in Counselling Psychology from Cambridge College, Massachusetts, and a Doctorate in Chemistry from Leicester University, UK.
PPG Associates
The professionals at Peak Performance Group have exceptional knowledge, expertise, corporate leadership experience, and advanced degrees in the fields most valuable to our clients including: business operations, human resources, organization development, team development, motivation, negotiation, conflict management, interpersonal influence, adult education and organizational
psychology.
PPG matches each client's need with exactly the right expert. We engage only in projects in which we have the experience and expertise and on topics and issues we are fully qualified to address and resolve.
Peak Performance Group, Inc. and individual staff hold Top Secret Security clearances with multiple governmental organizations.
Dr. Wayne W. Crouch
Dr. Crouch is a consultant and educator who works with clients in the classroom and through consulting relationships. His clients include corporations of all sizes, groups, and individuals. He is a certified mediator of workplace conflict. He specializes in conflict management, team building, team leadership training, meeting facilitation and communication skills training. His work with intact teams has helped them increase productivity, decrease mistakes, and improve their internal working relationships.
He has held positions on the Faculty of the Corporate Education Center at Boston University and as a Management Development Consultant in the Executive Programs Division of Babson College. Prior to that he was the director of a major research project and Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University where he was responsible for activities and programs pertaining to interpersonal communication in a technical environment. He has also taught communication skills to foreign nationals for the U. S. Agency for International Development. He has been associated with the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, the Liberal Arts Division of Babson College, the Naval Underwater Systems Center, and AT&T.
Dr. Crouch has his B.S. in physics and mathematics and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. is in the behavioral sciences/communication from Michigan State University. His work has taken him to India, Hong Kong, and Canada as well as major business centers in the United States. Companies that have used his services include Con Edison, UTC, Otis Elevator, Baxter, Bell South Services, UNUM Life Insurance Company of America, The Travelers, Union Pacific Railroad, and American Power Conversion.
Dr. Betty Doo
Dr. Betty Doo is a Management Psychologist and Leadership Consultant who provides Executive Coaching, Assessment and Management Consultation. She delivers a highly customized consulting service and is adept at partnering with leaders from all levels of an organization and diverse industries. She has a growing interest in "Executive Diversity", recognizing the strategic need for organizations to attract, develop, promote and retain diverse leadership talent. Betty is an Executive Coach with the Harvard Business School"s Executive Education Department working with emerging leaders from around the world.
Betty's professional experience encompasses work in diverse industries including global manufacturing, professional services, the heathcare industry and academia in varied roles including: Organizational Development, Career Management, Research, Quality Improvement and Counseling. She received her Doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, an innovative behavioral sciences program, and has received extensive training beyond her Doctorate in management and organizational fields. She holds certifications in Executive Coaching, is a Licensed Psychologist, and is qualified to deliver diverse assessments for individual and organizational development.
Betty's professional affiliations include: The Human Resources Leadership Forum, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Consulting Psychology, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the National Society of Hispanic MBAs. Her community service includes membership on the Board of Directors of Employment Options, Inc., a nonprofit agency, and she is an Ambassador for the Latinos in College program, a public awareness campaign to ensure Latinos are successful in achieving a college education.
Thomas R. Evans
Tom is the founder of Team Technologies, a training and consulting firm dedicated to helping people work better together. He has over 20 years of experience specializing in the development and delivery of customized training programs in interpersonal, communication and project management skills to increase worker productivity and effectiveness. He has worked extensively with all types of work teams, from project and cross-functional to self-directed/self-managed. He has worked in various industries, including insurance, financial management, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical, as well as many non-profits.
Prior to forming Team Technologies, Mr. Evans was an internal organizational development consultant for The Travelers Companies in Hartford, Connecticut. Concentrating his work in the information systems department, he worked extensively in team development and training for all types of teams providing on-going consulting and performance measurement support for those teams.
Mr. Evans has a technical background and prior to his organizational development work, designed and delivered technical training. Mr. Evans has a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Brockport. He is certified in various personality and assessment tools. He has been a member of the American Society for Training and Development and served as an active board member of the Western New England Organizational Development Network for several years.
Steve Frigand, MA
Steve Frigand specializes in executive and management team coaching and process consulting. He has more than 20 years of experience working with leaders in a variety of industries including technology, transportation, financial services, education, health care, and government. He works side-by-side with clients to create cohesive teams to shorten the timeframe to sustainable, measurable results. Steve is an exceptional facilitator who develops customized solutions for each client to help simplify complex issues and to effectively engage appropriate stakeholders. He has found that clarity, humor, and being open to experimentation help individuals and groups move forward, enabling them to tackle the most daunting issues. Prior to coaching and consulting, Steve held several senior management positions for Compaq Computer/Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was responsible for business planning and integration, strategic analysis, and market planning.
Steve earned a master's degree in management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in economics from Tufts University. He is certified in a variety of assessment tools and is a member of the NorthStar Alliance, International Coaches Collaborative, the Boston Facilitator Roundtable, and has joined the Board of Directors of the Human Resources Leadership Forum. He has designed and taught courses in the Coaching Certification Program at Cambridge College, and for the last seven years has won the Distler Family Endowment for the course he developed and continues to teach at Tufts University, "Ethical Leadership in Business." Steve resides in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Dr. Lois Sekerak Hogan
For over 25 years Dr. Hogan has consulted in a broad range of industries to all levels of leadership and on a variety of business challenges. As an applied behavioral scientist, she balances the rigor of achieving measureable and sustainable business results with a down-to-earth style, practical sensibility and a sense of humor.
She has worked as a professional business coach, consultant, trainer and facilitator on assignments that have involved her in many of the key issues facing business in this era of global competition: from designing and implementing change initiatives to improving leader effectiveness, executing strategies and performance improvement. Industries she has worked in range from healthcare and pharmaceutical to financial services, the oil and gas industry, railroad and transportation, public utilities, universities and school systems, government agencies and more.
Her work spans the spectrum from the executive suite to the frontline. Lois has worked side-by-side with clients "in the field" helping middle and frontline managers convert plans and goals into performance that matters. Executives working with Lois report that she challenges them to better understand how their own behavior affects the performance of others which is turn affects business results - an essential leadership skill.
Lois received her doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Institute and also holds two Masters degrees. She is certified in multiple personality and assessment tools as well as in Executive Coaching.
Stephen Josephs
Stephen Josephs' 30-year executive coaching practice has grown through decades of training and research. With his knowledge of business performance, psychology, and mind/body disciplines, he helps leaders attain new levels of agility. In working with clients Stephen guides them in achieving two measurable results: their leadership makes a difference and they expand their capacity to lead by meeting their challenges in new ways. A skilled performer himself (classical guitar, improvisational theater, keynotes), he uses the arts to raise the fun quotient in business and helps executives in their presentations, their "executive presence," and their ability to influence others.
Stephen has worked across industries and sectors including hi-tech, manufacturing, hospitality, education and government. He holds a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts and masters degrees from Harvard and Antioch Universities. He has taken post-doctoral courses at Harvard and M.I.T. in organizational development. The International Coach Federation has certified him as a Master Certified Coach.With co-author Bill Joiner, Stephen has written Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change (Jossey-Bass, 2007). The book shows how being at one stage or another of adult development significantly affects a leader's capacity to lead.
Steve Leichtman
Steve Leichtman is a seasoned Executive Coach and Leadership Development professional. For over twenty-five years Steve has helped leaders and companies achieve business results through building individual and organizational effectiveness. Because Steve has been a member of executive teams responsible for creating and executing strategy during turbulent times, his coaching is reality-based and business-driven. This pragmatic coaching approach reflects a deep understanding, across many industries and corporate cultures, of what really works for leaders who successfully grow their skills to address changing circumstances.
As a Vice President at Fidelity Investments, Steve served in both Corporate and Business Unit leadership roles, where he provided executive coaching and leadership development support to senior executives and their teams. As a member of the Executive Team at Tufts Health Plan, Steve served as Executive Coach and Vice President of Organization Effectiveness, heading Executive and Leadership Development, Management Training and Internal Communications. Prior to his focus on leadership development, Steve provided business coaching and counsel to senior executives as a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting, Bain and Company, and Associates for International Research.
Steve was recently selected into the Network of Senior International Leadership Coaches for the Foundation for International Leadership Coaching. Due to the innovative and successful results of Steve's coaching, his approach has been profiled in the books "The Coaching Organization", (James M. Hunt), and "Creativity, Inc." (Jeff Mauzy). He is certified in a wide variety of leadership, competency and team effectiveness instruments, and is a member of the Human Resources Leadership Forum. Steve holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where he concentrated in Marketing and International Management. Steve's undergraduate degree is from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business (magna cum laude), where he majored in Labor Relations and Political Science.
Dr. Harriet Nezer
Dr. Harriet Nezer's work has focused on identifying leadership and management development needs within organizations, coaching and designing innovative programs that resulted in greatly improved performance of individuals and their organizations. Harriet's broad and varied experience helps her zero in on the central issues confronting individuals coaching them to enhance their effectiveness as leaders gain influence, motivate others and produce enhanced business results. As a creative learning specialist and instructional designer, she works with organizations to zero in on their employees learning needs and to design and present programs with significant long-term effectiveness.
Dr. Nezer uses the knowledge and experiences that she has gained in over 20 years as a coach, learning specialist, instructional designer and consultant to assist clients in industries such as investment and financial services, audit, tax and advisory services, biotech and pharmaceutical, health care, public safety and higher education. Earlier in her career, Harriet was responsible for professional development in several large school systems and an entrepreneur who's highly successful retail venture won the "Best of Boston" award from Boston Magazine.
Dr. Nezer earned her Doctorate in Education and Public Administration from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, a Masters Degree from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Ct. and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She is certified in several leadership assessment, psychological and emotional intelligence instruments.
Carol Salloway, MBA
Carol has been an organizational consultant for over 20 years with emerging growth and start up companies and well established companies in the technology, biotechnology, financial services and health care industries as well as not-for-profit organizations. Her earlier career involved starting up and running the student service organization at a Boston area graduate school.
As an organizational consultant and executive coach, Carol designs, develops and delivers programs and services that enhance individual and organizational effectiveness. She is known for helping individuals and teams achieve clarity about issues, opportunities and actions that lead to results.
Carol earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Simmons College and an MBA degree from Boston University, with a concentration in organizational behavior.She is a certified professional coach through New Ventures West Integral Coaching Program and is certified in a wide variety of leadership, competency and team effectiveness instruments.
Service Partners
Peter Kaplan, President and Founder, PK Hunter Associates
PK Hunter Associates brings a personalized approach to executive search. Their clients always work with a dedicated partner and research team, who are focused and committed to exceeding expectations. They take the time to understand each client's business. PK Hunter employs a competency-based search methodology that helps clients identify desired skills and behaviors and leads to superior hiring decisions. They strive to place executives with the ideal background, attitude and approach in the most timely and effective manner. Companies look for external executive leadership assistance when they face a set of internal issues that they are not equipped to resolve on their own. Determining the best approach requires a true partnership between the search firm and the client.
Their professionals are committed to delivering customized solutions to our clients. Renowned for their expertise in executive search and management assessment, PK Hunter consultants provide insight into the broad spectrum of strategic, financial, operational, and human capital challenges that companies face. They have access to an extensive network of business leaders across industry and functional areas. In addition to their ability to identify, assess, and facilitate the optimal executive leadership solution, they provide leaders the support needed to successfully transition into their new role and meet their business objectives easily.
Peak Performance Group, Inc. - Europe
To better serve our European clients, PPG Europe offers full service support with local talent who are in sync with the unique cultures, business practices and needs of European clients. Since 1987, Peak Performance Group, Inc. has served its global clients through U.S. operations. PPG Europe enables the support of global client activities and projects with an efficient and integrated model, while maintaining the focus and integrity of the solutions.
PPG Europe, headquartered in the United Kingdom, will provide Peak Performance Group, Inc.'s full-spectrum of products and services:
● Strategic Organizational Analysis and Design
● Talent Optimization
● Corporate Education
● Human Assessment
● Instructional Design and Development
● Courseware Licensing
PPG Europe is led by Managing Partner Dr. Martin Howden. He can be reached at: mhowden@ppg-i.com.
Dr. Martin Howden
Martin Howden, Managing Partner (UK) for Peak Performance Group, has 26 years business experience which he uses as the foundation for his coaching practice established in early 2004.
Martin's business experience included 12 years as a Business Managing Director with ICI, Zeneca and Avecia, with global profit accountability for $250m businesses. Previously he had filled senior roles in Strategic Planning, Marketing, Operations and Research and Development. He has lived in the UK, USA and The Netherlands, as well as working extensively in Asia.
Martin's international coaching experience spans commercial, public and charitable sectors. Specific fields include Law, Education, International Development, Chemicals and Financial Services. His coaching embraces senior executives, support for managers making critical transitions, performance development programmes for those in key roles, and career management issues.
The coaching emphasis is heavily on action planning with a focus on results, based on joint identification by coach and executive of thought and behaviour patterns limiting the achievement of that executive's full potential in the workplace.
Martin has a Masters in Counselling Psychology from Cambridge College, Massachusetts, and a Doctorate in Chemistry from Leicester University, UK.
David House
David has over 20 years of business leadership experience to Board level in a variety of sectors including automotive, aerospace, food procurement and processing, IT (hardware, software and services) and mining equipment. His last position was HR Director in a £700m plc including significant M&A involvement and account director responsibility for blue chip corporate clients.
Since 1997 he has worked internationally as facilitator and coach. He specialises in building client partnerships focused on making a positive difference to business performance.
He strives to bring out the best in people for themselves, their departments and their organisations through developing leadership capability, coaching to enhance performance and facilitating teams in working together effectively to get results.
His areas of particular interest and experience are:
● directors and senior managers in leading their organisations, particularly at times of major
change
● newly promoted leaders and managers in accelerating the transition into their new role
● high performing junior and middle managers with succession potential
● professionals facing a complex blend of challenges at work and at home
● individuals at a career crossroads
His recent private and public sector assignments include Manufacturing, Chemicals, Law, Education, Financial Services; Search & Selection; and Health.
David has a BSc(Honours) Sociology/Psychology from Bath University; and is accredited to administer and interpret a wide variety of psychometric tools. He is a Member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council and the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development; and is an accredited Cruse Bereavement Counsellor.
Peter Thompson
Peter is an experienced facilitator and coach who specialises in building Leadership Capability in senior teams. He has more than fifteen years leadership experience to board level in a variety of business areas including Sales and Marketing, Culture Development and personal growth through Learning and Development. His broad commercial experience coupled with a pragmatic approach helps his clients translate strategic direction into practical behaviours. His passion is contagious and his track record reflects his interest in developing leadership skills in people to achieve for themselves. Through his time as an HRD he led Hilti GB limited a privately owned multinational to inclusion in the Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for and has supported several organisations in developing their Vision and Values. Clients come from a broad base of sectors and include PZ Cussons, Skipton Group, Brittania/Co Op, Tearfund, Xella and Tate Liverpool.
Peter tackles real life situations bringing practical help and wide experience to leaders in transition. From development support to take Leaders to the next level through to a helping hand in a crisis, his focus is in ensuring there is lasting behaviour change which delivers improved performance and tangible business benefits.
Sue Shierson
Sue Shierson, a senior consultant with Peak Performance Group, has spent more than 20 years at senior levels in an international context within multinational organisations. In 2000 she established a successful coaching practice specialising in leadership, executive coaching and organisational development.
Sue's career spanned ICI, Zeneca and Avecia where she worked across functions, businesses, locations and cultures primarily in Human Resources and Organisation Development roles. From this environment of technological and organisational change she lived through and built first hand experience of the challenge organisations and particularly the most senior managers, face as they adjust to the needs and demands of new environments, new stakeholders and new markets.
Sue has a proven track record of successfully working with a range of organisations, from start-up's to multinationals mainly in the private sector but also the NHS, charity and academia. Her coaching experience ranges from Company Chairman, Main and Division Board members to high potential senior executives from all disciplines. Sue brings intellect, creativity and real challenge to the coaching process; at the same time she shows genuine care and concern for the individual. Her approach has proved to be outstandingly successful in helping managers more fully understand and address a wide range of issues and as a result improve their performance.
Sue is a highly experienced (and a licensed practioner) in the use of a range of individual and diagnostic tools. She has a Post Graduate level Diploma in Coaching accredited by the ILM and is an NLP practioner. Her academic qualifications include a B.Sc, from University College London and she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.
PPG's Differentiator
Peak Performance Group, Inc. differentiates itself through:
Measurable ROI, according to extensive industry research, in the
services and product offerings of PPG.
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End-to-end, integrated systemic solutions that drive our client's success through
the synergy of leadership capability, organizational effectiveness and optimizing
collective human activity.
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Key elements of all solutions include the integration of: leadership development,
organizational analysis and design, professional education, human assessment and
broad human resource and talent optimization services.
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Simultaneously focus on short-, mid- and long-term solutions
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Senior and expert staff with extensive business and academic credentials.
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Deep and broad theoretical foundations pragmatically applied and adapted for
each of our clients' unique global businesses.
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Multiple client engagement models available to fit and adapt to the need and size
of the client project.
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PPG experts have extensive executive experience, conduct ongoing research,
maintain affiliations with professional organizations - and have the experience to
translate sound, well-established theory to practical applications in the workplace.
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PPG's products and services are continuously updated to reflect current best
practices, industry trends and on-going research.
Opportunities
To apply for any of the following opportunities, please send a cover letter and resume via email.
Leadership Educators
Peak Performance Group, Inc. (PPG) is looking for individuals with experience working in a corporate environment in a leadership position to teach our leadership programs...
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Peak Performance Group, Inc. (PPG) is looking for individuals with experience working in a corporate environment in a leadership position to teach our leadership programs. Our instructors are a team of experts who share the belief that people are an organization's greatest asset. We are committed to advancing the value of the "human asset" in the workplace by nurturing individual potential and challenging the way people work, team, and lead. Our instructors have exceptional knowledge, expertise and advanced degrees in adult education and in their respective fields, which include business, organization development, team development, motivation, negotiation, conflict management, interpersonal influence and organizational psychology.
Individuals interested in teaching for PPG's clients should have extensive experience in any of the following areas:
Team leadership
Change management
Negotiation
Organizational analysis and design
Building high performance teams
Strategic planning
PPG will train instructors in delivery of our courses, which are comprehensive, instructionally sound, professionally written, and reflective of current research. Our goal is to teach our clients more how to think than what to think. To that end, we look for individuals with understanding of adult education theory.
Travel may be required as our clients are located throughout the US and globally.
Qualifications required include:
Adult education experience
Graduate degree
Corporate experience, at a leadership level
Project Management Professionals
Peak Performance Group, Inc., (PPG) is looking for individuals with experience working in a corporate environment in a senior project management role with either their PMP® or PgMP® designation...
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Peak Performance Group, Inc., (PPG) is looking for individuals with experience working in a corporate environment in a senior project management role with either their PMP® or PgMP® designation. Our instructors are a team of experts who share the belief that people are an organization's greatest asset. We are committed to advancing the value of the "human asset" in the workplace by nurturing individual potential and challenging the way people work, team, and lead. Our instructors have exceptional knowledge, expertise and advanced degrees in adult education and in their respective fields, which include project management, business, organization development, and team development.
Individuals interested in teaching for PPG's clients should have extensive experience in managing projects in large organizations in a variety of industries.
PPG will train instructors in delivery of our project management courses, which are comprehensive, instructionally sound, and professionally written. Our goal is to teach our clients more how to think than what to think. To that end, we look for individuals with an understanding of adult education theory.
Travel may be required as our clients are located throughout the US and globally.
Qualifications required include:
Adult education experience
Graduate degree
PMP® or PgMP® certification
Project leadership experience
Executive Coaches
Peak Performance Group, Inc., (PPG), a global organization based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is looking for experienced executive coaches...
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Peak Performance Group, Inc., (PPG), a global organization based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is looking for experienced executive coaches. Through executive coaching, PPG brings to our clients capabilities, tools and models for assessing effectiveness and identifying areas for improvement, designing plans and facilitating learning and change. PPG brings a distinctive ability to identify root cause at the organizational as well as individual level. Our coaches have exceptional knowledge, expertise and advanced degrees in their respective fields, which include business, organization development, team development, and organizational psychology. They have a variety of experience in leadership roles within organizations.
We provide coaching for:
Successful Integration: For newly hired executives, often started during executive search
Expanded Responsibilities: Frequently a part of succession planning
Career Change: Often within the same company
High Potentials: In preparation for future opportunities
Increased Effectiveness: Particularly at times of change for the business or individual
Individuals interested in coaching for PPG's clients should have extensive experience in any of the following areas:
Executive team leadership
Change management
Organizational psychology
Strategic planning
PPG will train executive coaches in our unique model for coaching.
Qualifications required include:
Experience in providing executive coaching
Graduate degree, PhD desired
Corporate experience, at a senior leadership level
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Since 1987 Peak Performance Group, Inc. has been partnering with clients in over 40 countries around the
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