Peter Blyde

For me, leadership is the capacity to create a meaningful future together.

My passion is helping people make deeper connections with themselves and one another, as well as making stronger connections between themselves and the future they want to create.

I'm stimulated by the many paradoxes of leadership especially the paradox that it is deeply personal (requiring you to draw on and extend your own passion, aspiration and commitment) yet equally it is not about you (but rather about being of service to others and the greater shared future you are creating together).

Hillel captured this well when he wrote: "If am I not for me, who will be for me? If I am only for me, what am I? If not now, when?"

Dr Peter Blyde is a Senior Associate of Excelerator and is primarily responsible for the Hillary Leadership Programme. 

Peter has over 14 years consulting experience.  He is Director of his own company Catalyst4 which specializes in leadership, visioning, and people change. Prior to this, Peter was a consultant with the Hay Group in Sydney specializing in leadership development, executive coaching, emotional intelligence and strategy clarification.  While at Hay he was the Australasian representative for the Hay Group Global R&D Network, which has kept him up to date with global best practice in these areas. The majority of his consulting experience was with the Centre for Vision and Leadership where he co-designed New Zealand's first two-year leadership development programme (including the Fonterra Creating Visionary Leaders Programme which was identified as being best practice in research conducted by the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research). 

Peter has consulted to a wide range of both public and private organisations in Australia and New Zealand.  Most recently he has worked with senior executives from Rabobank, Holden, Fonterra, ANZ/National Bank, Bayer, ABN Amro, Unilever, Merill Lynch, UBS Warburg, Sydney Airport Corporation, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Smiths Snackfoods, and Grains Research and Development Corporation.   

Peter's Ph.D explored Executive Perceptions of Leadership in New Zealand and Australia. 

Tel:  (+64) 9 373 7599 ext 89331 or +64 21 680 639
Email:  p.blyde   "at" auckland.ac.nz