Peter Bernard, Business Coach

Peter is a specialist Business Coach and career development expert with over 20 years business experience.  Peter’s business background, prior to coaching, is in marketing and sales management within the technology sector. Peter also worked for several years in the professional services sector, running a major head-hunter’s European telecommunications business and leading a team of business psychologists offering consultancy and design/delivery of assessment and development solutions. 

Peter has a deep understanding of the skills required for entrepreneurs to start, run and grow businesses successfully and is an expert in combining the science of business management with the art of business growth. His skills allow him to understand the business environment within which his clients work and to offer advice and guidance for growth as well as providing expert coaching support.  He especially enjoys working with start-ups and fast growth companies; as well as being experienced working in multicultural environments, having recently worked with a large number of Asian Business Entrepreneurs on business growth. He has a direct approach and stays focused on key areas.

Peter's own corporate experience provides him with key knowledge of what is required to be a successful senior Executive in organisations of all sizes and how to develop organisations and people for business growth. Whilst being a highly experienced 1-to-1 executive coach Peter's particular expertise is in developing senior executives and managers to be substantially more effective in their roles in a short period of time, by focusing on developing their leadership, communication, strategy skills and people skills. He also ensures success for senior managers in a new role/promotion, on-boarding new executives for their first 100 days as well as improving organisational and departmental recruitment and retention.  He has worked with senior managers, directors and board members (turnover £4bn+) within a huge range of companies including Mattel, Airbus and Royal & Sun Alliance.

Within the public sector he has worked with senior individuals in Suffolk County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

Peter holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School, holds professional qualifications in Marketing (DipM) and Human Resource Management (Grad CIPD) and is a Graduate in Electronics from Warwick University. Peter is also a Certified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), is a Certified NLP Coach and is qualified by the British Psychological Society in psychometric testing to levels A and B.

Peter is married with young twin children. He is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and having fun in the context of a balanced life. He travels widely and enjoys road cycling, walking and rugby union - having played first team rugby with Wasps RFC before injury curtailed his sporting career.

 

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: Peter@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Pete Bernard’s Biography

 

Peter’s Clients include:

Numerous SME’s plus:
Airbus
GlaxoSmithKline
HSBC
Legal & General
Mattel
Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA)

What Peter’s Clients say about him:

Peter 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:

“Peter has helped me to grow my business from its start to a position of significant income and profitability as of today.” Iain Mackintosh, Owner, www.simply-docs.co.uk

“Peter has provided me with several years’ expert support and guidance to help me identify and then stay focused on the key activities needed to run and grow my businesses successfully.” Robert Burnett, Owner, Urban PA

“Peter provided me with critical advice, guidance and support in my journey from idea conception to business opening.” Harry Stevens, Owner, PlaySpace

“Peter helped me to set my business strategy, to decide on appropriate business objectives, and he provided invaluable expertise in helping me to define the key job roles required in my business going forward and then helped me through the often painful process of recruiting key employees.” Tom Hickman, MD & Founder, Media Revenue Services

Corporate and Senior Executives:

“Peter provided invaluable advice and guidance on how to start my new role effectively and how to engage with my team from a more managerial, and less technical, perspective.” Senior Technical Manager, Airbus

“Peter helped me to understand my behavioural and cultural drivers more clearly, and then guided me to plan a different approach to peers who had previously not bought into my new plans.” Senior Marketing Director, Mattel

“Peter very quickly gave me the tools to engage with my team in a way that would elicit greater productivity and motivation from them.” Senior Executive, Airbus Logistics

“Peter allowed me to become clearer on my core skills and role motivators, and then supported me to delegate more effectively and manage my time more efficiently.” Senior IT Director, Royal & Sun Alliance

 

What Peter says…

"Simply put, if you want things to be better then I can help - whether you want to improve the performance of your business, set the stage for your next period of growth and profitability or be a better business leader. I will help you to achieve these goals by working with you in a focused, open, honest and straightforward way."

 

Peter’s areas of Expertise:

• Coaching MD’s and/or Board Facilitation re Business Strategy and Business Growth
• Making executives / managers more effective in their roles – fast
• Improving leadership, communication, strategy and people skills
• Preparing executives / managers for a new role / promotion
• On-boarding executives / managers for their first 100 days
• Advising on, and improving, organisational and departmental recruitment and retention
• Business Start-ups
• High growth organisations
• Business growth

 

More about Peter’s Products and Books..

Peter is the expert guest on 2 of our audios within the Business Success Strategies membership programme - Manage your Talent and Successful Recruitment Pays and has also written the ebook Get your Ideal Job

In "Manage your Talent", Peter invites you to look at your people as assets. Like any asset, there should be a return on the original investment and Peter explores how this translates into managing your workforce. Included with the audio is a short coached exercise to help you to put these powerful insights to work for your immediate benefit and to start getting more from your people right now.

 

"Successful Recruitment Pays" contains a refreshing look at what it takes to get recruitment right first time - Peter explains how to adapt our own perspective when it comes to the whole subject. He lays out the steps that, based on his experience working with hundreds of clients, have worked successfully, so that you can find and employ the talent that you need to help you grow your business and also put in place a ‘build-it-once’ process that will save a significant amount of money, time and effort ongoing after that.

"Get your Ideal Job" ebook coming soon
 

To learn more about "Manage your Talent" please click here
To learn more about "Successful Recruitment Pays" please click here
To learn more about the acclaimed business growth programme "Business Success Strategies" please click here

 

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: Peter@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Pete Bernard’s Biography