Peter has intellectual integrity; he is considered, wise and insightful in all that he shares. Peter brings clarity to the dynamic confusion that challenges businesses on a daily basis.
Peter's key attributes that have enabled our relationship to work were his integrity, insightfulness and excellence. He has enabled me to be a better leader and has engaged with my team to drive superior economic and people outcomes that our entire business is proud to have achieved. He proves age is not a barrier to wisdom and that I can still learn and improve both as a person and as a leader. Thank you Peter.
Peter has had a major impact on my approach to leadership. I have learned profound lessons through my experiences with Peter that saved me years (if not decades!) of trial and error. His advice is simple in its delivery but profound in its impact. Every minute I spend with Peter is time well spent. I always leave with a deeper understanding of how I can shape the performance of my organization through our people. Peter has been one of my biggest sources of competitive advantage in business. Peter is a Zen Master to the modern CEO.
When I arrived in Sydney I inherited an organization which according to a Hewitt survey, had an engagement score in the bottom 10% of all Australian organizations. I knew I had a problem and I realized I had to do something but I had no idea where and how to start putting it right. Peter Fuda changed all that. Peter is a very easy person to get to know and radiates a wealth of experience that you would not expect from a (relatively) young person. He was the driving force behind the cultural transformation that occurred at Bayer ANZ. He became my personal leadership coach. He catalysed my transformation from an aggressive style leader to a leader who really began to understand and implement the effective styles of leadership which enabled the organization to be far more successful. In nutshell, Peter Fuda was the prime reason why Bayer ANZ transformed its culture in 5 years to be awarded the prestigious honour of being nominated in the top 10 employers in Australia. I can't think of any better accolade than that.
Peter's signature strength is the rapport he is able to build with a CEO audience based on shared values, authentic relationships and value-add. I would not hesitate to recommend Peter to anyone endeavouring to achieve high quality change and performance outcomes.
Peter has an excellent ability to quickly grasp the issues and put in place short term actions which will lead to long term actions and then ultimately success. Peter is an exceptional listener who can move the theory very quickly into the real business world. Thus you get very quick tangible returns Peter can quickly provide a management team with clarity on what are the real key issues.
With Peter's assistance anything is possible in an organisation, the only boundaries will be your ability to keep pace with him.
Peter is extremely insightful and recognises the unique challenges that we face in taking a private family orientated company and turning it into a world class organisation and dealing with the multitude of issues that arise from such a transformation. Peter is a dynamic person who can articulate organisational concepts and human behaviour in ways that make it easy to understand the key issues that leaders of organisations need to be aware of in producing organisations that achieve superior performance. Peter can not only talk the talk but he also has the lived experience. He is a very talented and motivating individual.
Peter combines a unique set of skills in terms of real life examples and current day thinking on key business issues. He is able to quickly and decisively sift through all the noise within an executive team and constructively get to the heart of the real issues. His dynamic and thoughtful personality is able to drive excellent outcomes. Peter has been a valued external member and advisor to the Executive Team as we have wrestled with complex business issues.
Peter is passionate, professional and insightful. He has great confrontation skills to enable breakthrough approaches and an ability to get teams focussed and keep initiatives moving. Peter is a big picture thinker with a thorough understanding of the little things that can get in the way of organisations. He is well disciplined and professional in his approach but always very "user friendly".
Peter has a gift. He has the ability to look at complex leadership and cultural issues and knife through them to get at the core of what must be done. He helped me understand the dramatic impact a leader can have on company culture and the linkages between company culture and success. He had an immediate impact on me and my team during a period of great turbulence and cultural change. Fuda can be a hard task-master but he has a passion for helping leaders to navigate confusion and to create clarity and stability, he is also a great guy!
Peter allows you to see that what you considered good can be better, always. Peter is a person who teaches by helping you see what you need to learn.
Peter significantly enhances a company's leadership capability and bench strength. Peter is a strong and decisive leader with a great ability to translate strategy into action.
Building a great strategy is one thing, but being able to execute it is equally important. Peter delivers two critical components: focus and alignment. That is, all resources aligned to common business objectives. By assisting us in developing clear lines of site to our key goals, we have been able to create a more dynamic and focused operating environment. Peter is a great listener. This is an important skill as it enables Peter to deliver upon the client's needs and not some wrap around generic management theory. He has been able to demonstrate a clear understanding of our business imperatives over a long period of time and always delivers on agreed outcomes.
Peter was instrumental in our organisation building a highly effective leadership team that delivered dramatically improved business results. Peter develops a very strong insight into your business, and understands how to use those insights to positively impact the performance of the business working very effectively with leadership teams to implement action plans.
Rather than tell us what we want to hear, Peter continually challenges us with alternative ideas and approaches to take our performance to the next level.
Peter has a great approach, a great brain, coupled with great intuition. He applies them all to help CEO's and management teams achieve greatness. I believe he has a unique skill.
Peter is an engaging person who invests substantial time and energy to develop the personal relationships required for real growth to occur. He has innovative approaches which enable executives to build their personal capability to tackle the tougher issues we often face.
Peter has had a very strong influence to the way I approach complex management issues. He has a brilliant ability in applying appropriate and proven business/behavioural models to explore in detail everyday managerial and leadership issues which culminate in positive 'go forward' strategies.
Peter is a mentor of the highest quality and integrity who will work with you to transform your own personal performance as well as the performance of your business and your people. Someone who will make you realise that effective leadership and a constructive culture can transform business performance. He is respectful, honest and insightful.
Peter has a relaxed informal style that is anchored around a deep understanding of organizational theory. I believe it ensures people feel comfortable opening up to him, but secure in the depth of his insights and counsel to them. Peter has inspired myself and my team to take our organization on a journey that has been sign posted with numerous successful outcomes.
Peter brings a unique clarity to Strategic Planning and change management processes. He understands the importance leadership plays at all levels within an organisation and through his mentoring, earns the trust and respect of senior executives. Peter is a highly intelligent individual whose energy, enthusiasm and direct approach enables organisations to achieve significant outcomes.
Peter is a valuable "sounding board" on a range of business related issues and his contributions are always concise and insightful. Peter is passionate about the change process, demonstrating a rare skill in finding creative solutions to problems that are often specific to your business.
Peter provides the strategic insights and coaching required to align organisations to achieve their goals. He does this in a way which is constructive but does not resile from the tough organisational and personal issues. In summary, Peter has a big but constructive impact leading to personal and organisational growth.
Peter has an excellent and intuitive understanding of leadership and culture. He is well informed and is very comfortable sharing his learnings, either one-on-one or leading a group discussion. He is an outstanding facilitator, able to bring a diverse group of senior executives to the heart of an issue very quickly. Peter is a passionate believer in what he does and in the power of the individual to create change. His passion and enthusiasm are infectious.
Peter significantly raises awareness of the role of a leader and those behaviours & symbols which create positive & constructive leadership impacts. This awareness facilitates the ability to deliberately manage leadership impact to drive towards constructive outcomes. Working with Peter is a refreshing experience - providing significant challenge but with support which is both deep and broad; you are encouraged to take risks, but in a measured way. Peter's personal style is highly engaging and he is able to draw on a wide range of past experiences, both directly and referred. I have at all times regarded the relationship as one of partnership, striving towards a common goal, and certainly not one of consultant & client.
Peter provides organisations with focus and strategic direction to take them from a collection of talented individuals to a high performing team. Peter provides the tools, confidence and knowledge to create competitive advantage.
Peter provides a contemporary perspective on leadership, change and moral purpose. His capacity to draw on next practice by engaging CEOs both within Australia and overseas has opened up our thinking beyond our own organisation.
Peter enables teams to reach clarity of vision and then build a strategy to deliver. Better still, he coaches executives to interact in a far more positive fashion leaving nothing unsaid and expediting success. Peter teases out the real issues and once he has gained trust, he takes a very direct approach.
Peter has taught me to honestly look at situations in a detached and non judgemental way, so that the appropriate solution can be found to an issue as opposed to the regular corporate programmed answer. Peter is focussed, gets to the key issues quickly and is fair, honest and objective. His honesty and communication of his view is very disarming at times - it cuts away all the bullshit. Peter is successful because he absolutely lives his life the way he performs his work - his work is an extension of himself.
Peter helps to re-establish the basic ethics, integrity, teamwork and trust that organisations aspire to. He also enables organisations to reconnect meaningfully with their people. Peter is refreshing, engaging, empathic, trustworthy, and a change nucleus that every senior executive should have to help them build their business.