by Peter | Apr 28, 2016 | Gallery |
In a land locked in time Jordan is as breathtaking as it is beset by hardship. With millions fleeing in from Syria and Palestine the Jordanian people have opened their borders. I was fortunate to work with teams directly responsible for managing the crises at one on...
by Peter | Sep 16, 2015 | Adventures, Gallery |
Getting in touch with nature is such a catch phrase these days that it’s easy to become complacent. The novelty of sitting next to a 500 pound Gorilla, on the other hand, I doubt would ever wear off. And after trekking 90 minutes through the Virunga forests of...
by Peter | Aug 4, 2015 | Gallery |
The beginning of a training program sets the scene for the learning journey ahead. It should be scripted and prepared, with no room for error. I was running the first module of a three month action learning program for the Economic Commission in Africa and my Spanish...
by Peter | Jul 30, 2015 | Adventures |
Catching a bus in Bahir Dah was tricky, but when you’re at 3900 metres above sea level, sunburnt, wind chilled, and the bus you’re waiting for is nowhere in sight, strange things happen. Especially when you’re 3 hours from the airport, and the flight out of Ethiopia...
by Peter | Jul 28, 2015 | Adventures |
The adventures on the bus in Addis were just the beginning. I had a night flight up to the northern City of Bahir Dah and needed to organise transport the next morning out to the source of the Nile. At 11pm at night, in a dark and dusty town, I met four unlicensed,...
by Peter | Jul 23, 2015 | Adventures |
Catching a bus is easy. In a new city, with no sense of direction, and being fluent in 3 words of the local language, is not so straightforward. The concierge at the hotel I was staying at told me how to get to my first landmark, Lucy, the first homo Sapien. “Get the...
by Peter | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized |
I recently returned from the Caucasus where I ran a customer experience program for a development bank. They had suffered a downturn; the result of a falling Russian currency, and the big banks coming in for a slice of their micro-lending pie. In my work coaching and...
by Peter | Jul 16, 2015 | Gallery |
After a job at the UN headquarters in Africa in Nairobi I took a safari into the Masaai Mara and stayed with a tribe for a week. It was one of the coolest adventures of my life. I’m not a photographer, but it was great to capture the moments that made the most...
by Peter | Oct 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
When a plane tips its wings to land, you know there’s an adventure waiting below. When that wing tip reveals the coarse mountains of Afghanistan and dusty suburbs of Kabul, it’s something else altogether. But after I landed and cleared customs what happened next...
by Peter | Sep 29, 2014 | Training and Presentation Skills |
If you want to make an impact in your training (and, um, isn’t that what it’s about) then finding a way to weave stories into your presentations is the most effective way to make learning stick. In this quick video I shot for an internet publishing company...
