The Business Developer's Playbook (PDF)

Peter's workshops are popular for their pace, practicality, humour, and engagement and are often rated the best workshops people have ever attended. He advises mainly inside organisations but also teaches public courses at management institutes, chambers of commerce, universities, schools, and colleges around the world. Peter is CUHK (MBA) professor of Business Negotiation and visiting professor at HKPolyU, McGill, SFU, & Bishop's. He is also Course Director of HKICPA's Financial Controllers' Programme; has appeared on TEDx, CNBC, Discovery Channel, TV5, TVB, & Media Corp. and has been showcase speaker globally for YPO and EO. His clients have received awards for his work including Colgate President's Award, HKMA Training Award nominee, and recently Potential was named Best Independent Change Management Consultant 2018 in the Hong Kong Business Awards hosted by APAC Insider Magazine.

Peter has been detained in Bahrain, locked up in Tehran, deported from Austria and India, hit by lightning in a small plane in the Arctic, survived roadside shootings in Aceh, bombings in Pakistan, 7/7 in London, slept with lions in Africa, survived bear intrusions and forest fires in Alberta, nearly broke his neck playing ice hockey, and led his small business through the ravages of the Asian Currency Crisis, Bird Flu, SARS and the Great Recession. He joined a million Indian worshippers at Pushkar's Mela (Camel Fair) where pilgrims achieve eternal salvation if they step in the lake during November's full moon, which he did but despite this he still gets sick and pay taxes.

Peter was born and raised in Montreal, married in Geneva, and moved to Hong Kong in 1989 where he and his wife Marie raised their three children. Peter enjoys music ("the best form of dialogue"), reading (sociology, economics, religion), travel (to reach 100 countries), outdoor adventure (to connect with nature) and time with family and friends. Peter is immediate past Chairman of Discovery Bay International School, Dean's advisor at McGill's Faculty of Education and to the School of Religious Studies. He is also director of McGill's Alumni Society and the Martlet Foundation in HK, Trustee of Outward Bound HK, HK Head of the Asian Cabinet of Bishop's University, and a member of the governance committee of UNICEF HK. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of CPA's and has degrees from Bishop's (BBA), McGill (GDPA), and Leicester (MSc). He has also studied at Alberta, Harvard, INSEAD and Fielding. He is a Canadian Chief Scout (1st TMR) & Knight of Tamara.