Pete Mackechnie, Business Coach

Peter is a dynamic business coach with over 8 years experience managing his own company and over 20 years senior and middle leadership and management experience. His background ranges from managing large cultural and organisational change projects to working with major companies such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Sytner Car Group and Scottish Water, as well as a variety of SME companies across the UK

Peter has first hand experience with SMEs after spending 8 years managing his own company. This, combined with working closely with a variety of SME companies across the UK ensures that Peter has the necessary tools to coach business owners successfully.

Peter has worked with major corporates such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and has 20 years senior leadership and management experience.  In addition to his excellent Executive and Business Coaching skills, he has specialist experience in Leadership and Management Programmes, communications, strategic and business planning and people development systems.

Within his public sector work portfolio, Pete has worked with senior managers and Assistant Directors within Birmingham City Council and also delivered an Achieve Leadership Programme for the Highlands and Islands Enterprise Network. It covered areas such as Myers Briggs, leadership and learning styles, team work, decision making, staff motivation, communication skills, managing upwards, team role analysis, staff behaviours, organisational change, cultural development, decision making, mind mapping and time management. This was delivered through a combination of training events and regular mentoring sessions.

Mentoring and Coaching have been the primary Leadership and Management styles Peter has used throughout his extensive career to date, and he is passionate about the outcomes that his clients experience when working with him. His direct and hands on approach ensures his clients are challenged whilst his sense of humour ensures lots of enjoyment along the way.

Peter trained as a Coach with the Coaching and Mentoring Institute, College of Executive Coaching and Mindstore, Scotland. He’s a trained behavioural profiler, Belbin Team role analyst, NLP Practitioner and Leadership styles assessor.  Peter is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute and the Association for Coaching.  Academically he has an Honours degree in Psychology and two Business Diplomas in Strategic Management.  He is also a Business Owner and avid traveler.

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Pete either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email him on: Pete@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Pete Mackechnie's Biography

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Pete's Clients include:

Numerous SME’s plus:
Birmingham City Council
Royal Bank of Scotland
Highland & Islands

What Pete's Clients say about him:

Pete continuously receives glowing testimonials from his clients. Below are some examples of specific quotes that his clients have said about him.

Please note, we are always happy to supply specific references should you require them.

SME’s and Business Owners:

“Our work with Peter has directly increased our profits this year and our investment in coaching has been the best one we have made in our business career to date.” Ruth MacKay MD Unique Marketing Solutions

“Peter enabled us to identify and focus on our key business goals and developed effective management strategies that have ensured we successfully met each one” Andrew Paterson Director Framework Osteopaths Ltd

“Peter Mackechnie’s extensive business experience has been a great resource to me and the development of my business. He is able to quickly identify a problem and help me find solutions to it. He has also been able to provide extremely useful skills transference sessions in areas such as presentation skills, leadership, management and business planning skills” Mary Combe, MD, Minuteman Press, www.MinutemanPress.co.uk

Corporate and Senior Executives:

“Peter's challenges, support and diverse knowledge of leadership and management skills meant I was able to get past where I wanted to go more quickly than I thought possible. His ability to help you see your vision and go for it have helped me get to where I am today – if anything he helps you believe in what you are and focuses you on the right skills to achieve your goals” Philip Mellor MIH, Regional Operations Manager, Menzies Hotels Group

Public Sector Organisations:

“I have found our meetings highly effective for improving my thinking technique. Seeing a way forward with an issue gives me a tremendous sense of relief and motivates me to take action promptly. Thank you” Brian, Head of Financial Services, Highlands and Islands Enterprise

“I would like to express my appreciation for the very real assistance that I received from the meetings with Pete Mackechnie. It had been obvious for some time that both my team and I were far too heavily loaded work wise and it was having a bad effect on our collective health. This situation has now turned around completely. The general atmosphere around my team now seems to be excellent, and if people feel good, they do good work. Once again, many thanks for your excellent help.” David, Head of Culture & Heritage, Highlands and Islands Enterprise

What Peter says…

“If you are serious about wanting to develop significant business outcomes, are ready to take effective action, and are prepared for the challenge then start now by meeting with me – it’ll be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.”

Pete’s areas of Expertise:

• Working on a 1-to-1 basis with Executives and Business Owners to:
  o Enhance management and leadership skills
  o Understand and enhance their key strengths through the results of a range of individual psychometric tests
  o Develop a customised and focussed development programme

• Working on a small group basis to:
  o Enhance team working skills
  o Understand and enhance the teams core strengths through the results of team based assessments
  o Enable clear lines of communication between team members leading to increased performance

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Pete either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email him on: Pete@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Pete Mackechnie's Biography