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praise & testimonials

"Peter, you amaze me. Your ability and willingness to customize material that resonates with audiences and reinforces brand goals is incredible. As the executive producer of countless conferences for owners, general managers and directors of sales for the Hilton portfolio of brands, I’ve hired speakers that range from ex-presidents to mountain climbers to Nobel Laureate economists. You deliver more bang for the buck than all of them! Your performance for my client last week was right on target, and the material was 90 per cent new from the material you used with another of my clients just ten months ago. Thanks for always helping me look good and deliver results for my clients!"

Jane O. Pierotti, CEO
Counterpoint, Inc.

"For the last few years, News Corporation America has been engaging Peter Sheahan to transform the way its leaders think about their business, and the talent within it. From the creative's in the editing rooms of LA, to the Chairman himself in New York, Peter has had a profound impact on this company. There is no shortage of people who can entertain an audience. There is also no shortage of academics, conducting insightful research. It is very rare, however, to find someone who is engaging on the platform and whose work is clearly based on ground-breaking research and genuine insight into what makes a business and its leaders successful in today's uncertain market place.

Peter Sheahan is one of those people. Arguably the world leading expert in generational change, I have no hesitation recommending Peter to any organization looking to drive innovation deeper in their company, and wanting to inspire their leaders to think differently and take the necessary risk to future-proof the business."

Tiffany LaBanca, Senior Vice President, Internal Communications
News Corporation

"Peter joined us in Seattle to film a series of short videos to educate managers across Microsoft about generational change and it impact on the way we do business. His recordings were jam packed full of energy, insight and practical strategies any leader could use.

Peter has built an excellent reputation around the world as the leader in his field, and our partnership together has proven this to me personally. I have no hesitation recommending Peter to any business looking to understand their new customers and staff, and to future proof their organization against the inevitable change they bring."

Maryann Prouty, Global Program Manager – MACH
Microsoft Corporation

"Peter has worked with some of our most senior leaders, almost all of our North American distribution partners and some of our most edgy businesses such as Webex too. Peter understands not only the forces of change in the modern business landscape, but the mindset the leader needs to adapt to future proof themselves against that change. His sessions are content rich, extremely thought provoking and inspiring all at the same time.

Peter can be relied upon to deliver genuine insight that moves his audience to action. These are exciting, and of course challenging times. Peter is just the right kind of thinker to help organizations profit from the opportunities which inevitably arise in such a turbulent economic environment."

Naomi Chavez Peters, Communications & Development Director
Cisco Systems, Inc.

“Peter Sheahan is a sharp business mind. He understands the business model itself, and the role talent plays in driving its success. A long-way from the group hug style approach to talent that plagues many advisers in this space, Peter will cut the heart of what makes you a great place to work, and outline the best strategies for telling the world. He has a clear understanding of what drives human behaviour, and always offers a thoroughly researched perspective on your main competitors, and where you are positioned in the mind of the people you want to attract and retain.

Whether it is strategic guidance, or creative stimulation Peter Sheahan is a powerful partner on your journey to building a powerful employer brand.”

Amanda Fleming, Chief People Officer
Pizza Hut

"Thank you for your thought provoking presentation at Google's HQ in Mountain View A number of Google staffers reached out to say how much they enjoyed your thought/discussion provoking presentation. You gave us great insight into the minds of literally hundreds of potential Googlers. For us to better understand how to motivate and develop that talent will certainly be key to our continued success."

Sue Polo, Engineering and Operations Staffing Manager
Google

"Peter Sheahan is one of the few speakers we have had who can match the sharp minds of the highly intelligent people we have at Shopzilla, and also deliver an inspiring and insightful message with a clear application to our business and company culture. Well researched and highly engaging, his session with our senior leaders not only opened their eyes to the opportunity presented by the changing nature of the workforce, but opened their minds to new ways we can drive collaboration and innovation in the business. Our team’s response was unanimous – we want him back!"

Nicole Csabon, HR Director
Shopzilla

"Peter Sheahan is unquestionably cutting edge. His insights on generational change, and their impact on the way we lead and develop staff is unparalleled in the market place. When combined with his presentation skills, for which he is very well known, these make Peter an invaluable resource to our clients businesses. We had Peter present to a group of our select clients in 2008, and the overwhelming response was “how do we get him back and expose a broader cross-section of managers to his ideas and strategies”. I can confidently say Peter is a world class expert on his topic, and first-class presenter too. I have no problem recommending him to other American companies looking to drive innovation and leadership throughout their business."

Karl E. Hansen, President
The Vita Companies

"In 2008, we were fortunate enough to have Peter Sheahan present at our annual conference. Known as a very discerning audience, the thousand plus crowd was initially skeptical of this young Australian. By the end of the presentation, they were blown away. Peter’s average audience rating was 4.9 out of 5. His address was insightful, provocative and inspiring. Peter’s enthusiasm is infectious. Our clients left excited and inspired to embrace the changing market place and drive innovation in their place of work.

North American businesses can really benefit from Peter’s expertise in these challenging economic times. I have no hesitation recommending Peter Sheahan to anyone interested in building an exciting and innovative company."

A David Bergstein CPA, CITP, Strategic Partner Relations
CCH (a Wolters Kluwer business)

"Richmond Events counts amongst its clients some of the most powerful HR executives in all of America. They are a very intelligent and discerning community. It is for this reason, that we chose Peter Sheahan to be the opening presenter at our very first on-shore West Coast conference.

Peter is known across the globe as a catalyst for change, helping executive teams to evolve their business practices and leadership philosophies in areas of generational change, customer experiences and talent retention. His presentation was not just well researched and genuinely insightful, it was a lot of fun as well.

Peter brings the right balance of theatre and expertise to the platform, and he left our audience not just excited about the rest of the day, but inspired to build even more innovative cultures in the businesses they help to lead.

Peter is a first-class presenter, who will not just tell your audience what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. He walks the razors edge as he provokes his audience to question their own beliefs, and practices yet somehow manages to have them enjoy the experience.

It is with pleasure that I offer my recommendation to this talented individual."

Shane D. York, Conference Manager
Richmond Events

"Peter Sheahan could light a small town with energy, enthusiasm and insight. He combines deep practical knowledge with unending passion for both his subject matter and his audience. In my 10+ years of speaking with executive-level audiences, I find Peter to be unsurpassed in his ability to engage senior executives.

Peter can draw out of your people answers to questions they did not know they had. That, and even more powerfully, he will have them question the very answers they come up with in a way that reveals an even deeper level of insight and understanding. Whether he is presenting or facilitating, Peter is clearly world class educator.”

David Willis, Managing Director
Corporate Executive Board

"Peter gave six great keynote addresses at Ricoh's annual 'Let's Do Lunch' series. He challenged everyone, dealt with real issues & was totally engaging. The audience loved the fact they could apply what he said in their business today. We want to get him back next year!"

Philip Henry, General Manager, Marketing
Ricoh

"Peter - I really enjoyed your training yesterday in Shanghai! Totally on point for what we are dealing with now, and especially relevant for China. I now have the tools to build a business case for employer branding thanks to your unique and powerful model for building our brand and attracting top talent."

Laura Hamrick, Director of Staffing
Yum! Brands China Division

Peter has done incredible work with our firm. He is not only able to energize legal partners but even facilitate agreement between them on issues like firm values. More importantly when they got back to the office they did something about it. Peter’s sessions create results! The quality of his work is second to none.

Gary McDiarmid, CEO
Russell McVeagh

"Peter, Just wanted to say thank you for such a fantastic presentation you did to the Witchery/ Mimco team yesterday.

I have worked in retail management for the past 20 years found your presentation so 'on trend', interesting and engaging. I can’t believe you spoke for 3 hours and it still wasn’t enough."

Jude Kendall, Regional Manager
Witchery

"Thank you so much for a great session – all the reactions were 'awesome, amazing, and inspirational'. The only thing we'd do differently next time would be to book you further in advance so we have you present on the first day of our event - you set a great tone and really energise and inspire.

Brilliant. We will have you working with BP again soon."

Nina Raymond, HR Executive
BP

"Peter, it is a delight working with you! Your dynamic presentations were the highlight of our professional development sessions. Educators travelled from across the country to see you and found you to be informative, engaging, humorous and thought provoking. I love the way your forward thinking comments are based on research and illustrated by facts. I do hope we have a chance to work together again."

Kathy Schoo, Executive Director
Australian Curriculum Studies Association

"Peter’s inspirational and stimulating presentation style combined with well researched examples ensured an amazing day of learning for all that participated in our sessions. His capacity to challenge participant biases through humorous antidotes ensured a relaxed atmosphere and lively discussion.

Peter is an outstanding presenter and researcher whose messages will have impact not only on educators of this generation but future generations."

Jenny Lewis, CEO
Australian Council for Education Leaders

"Peter Sheahan is one of the best presenters to a business audience I have ever seen. He is a master of his topic and he delivers his presentation with great style and passion, captivating the entire audience with excellent humor, appropriate anecdotes, memorable metaphors and authentic sense of purpose."

David C M Carter, Chairman
Merryck & Co

"It was a pleasure to meet you at our Planning Council in Phoenix last week. On behalf of myself, and my colleagues at AECOM may I express our sincere thanks for an excellent presentation which was right on message as far as our development towards a Great Place to Work and in particular seeking and developing our future leaders. As you would imagine the feedback which I am sure you partly received whilst with us has been tremendous."

Ken Dalton, Europe CEO
AECOM

"Thank you so much for two terrific sessions at our Global Summit last week in Singapore! Both your general session and the follow-up breakout session were incredibly well received and kept people talking for the remainder of the Summit. It was indeed a privilege to work with someone as prepared and flexible as you were. I certainly hope we have the opportunity to work together again."

Cici Thompson, Vice President
Meetings & Member Alliances, Worldwide ERC®

"Peter Sheahan addressed some of our most senior and high performing staff as part of an ongoing leadership development program. His sessions are always high energy, very informative and most importantly thought provoking.

Peter’s session on Flip opened our leaders’ minds to a whole new way of thinking about our business, and of their role in it. His insights are cutting edge and force leaders to think about how they will future proof themselves and the business against the inevitable changes we all face.

It was his Personal Branding session that really shook them up. It takes some real work to get an already successful group of professionals to rethink the way they build their careers, and where their future success will come from and Peter did that superbly.

Without getting too esoteric, he was able to have them connect with how they saw themselves, and the value and they brought to GSK. In a challenging, yet inspiring way, Peter had them think systematically about how they could be even more impactful in their jobs, and how they can build not only their personal success but that of GSK as well.

I have no hesitation recommending Peter to anyone wanting to fast-track the success of their key performers."

Shelley Holst, Talent and Organisational Performance Manager
Glaxo Smith Kline

"Peter, the feedback from your two sessions has been overwhelmingly positive. Check out what the delegates said about you

  • Really challenged my thinking, and will take on board a lot of what he said.
  • He gets it! HR that is and he does not even work in the profession. Exciting and thought provoking. Would see him anytime again. Very energetic and enthralling
  • Fantastic
  • Very engaging, provocative and entertaining.
  • great energy - looking forward to the e-learning
  • Fabulous presenter, really interesting content
  • Left the session feeling inspired!
  • Brilliant speaker
  • Very True! Organisations need to think differently about their business in uncertain times. The story telling experience is something customers/stakeholders will remember in relation to your business. awesome.
  • Fantastic!!!!!!
  • Was a great presentation, lots of ideas, innovative and practical. Fantastic
  • Huge energy that was infectious. Very inspiring speaker!

And in regard to your workshop;

  • Engaging, motivating, thought provoking. Could not recommend it highly enough.
  • Peter was excellent. Very insightful and delivers it in such a way you don’t want the session to end.
  • Normally I would rate a session as successful if I come away with 1 or 2 new ideas. This session gave me at least 10 new ideas and a new way of looking at building by business brand. An amazing session.
  • Very positive and great information. Very thought provoking!
  • It was a fabulous session that provided tools and frameworks that can be utilized immediately"

Dana Grgas, Development & Research
Australian Human Resources Institute

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