LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING

Peter Salsbury

Peter’s experience as a member of Plc Boards for the last 15 years (including Marks & Spencer as CEO) has led to his specialisation in one-to-one work at the most senior levels in commercial organisations. He approaches the long-term improvement of performance by using current issues to develop more effective leadership and management methods. He believes in the need to take risks, make decisions and be comfortable with your accountability with the outcome. You will certainly need to maintain a sense of humour to handle these well!

Experience

Peter has exceptionally wide experience through his long career at Marks & Spencer. After three years as a trainee and manager in stores, he developed his career as a buying and marketing executive. His achievements in these P&L driven roles led to his appointment as the youngest member of the plc board – as HR Director. During the following eight years, he took on successively more senior roles, including Retail Operations, Estates and General Merchandise as Managing Director, before being appointed as CEO. He joined The Change Partnership in 2001.

Specific Coaching Experience

Recent assignments include:

• Working with a newly appointed CEO to handle an experienced and challenging plc Board effectively.
• Coaching a high-performing trader in financial services to add line management capabilities to his repertoire.
• Helping a Finance Director to transition from a successful Divisional Director to his new position as Group Finance Director.
• Acting as the advisor to a CFO needing to manage with a large-scale financial crisis, whilst coping with considerable external and internal pressures.
• Supporting a plc board member through a critical period of structural and cultural change, during which all but one of his colleagues were removed and the values of the organisation were threatened.
• Transitioning a FTSE 100 Finance Director to become CEO.
• Advising the Managing Director on building an International Management team.
• Constructing a programme with the board to develop a director of one of their businesses to become Managing Director.
• Assigned to ‘rescue’ the career of a successful banker who had problems with key relationships, having been promoted.
• Coaching and giving strategic advice to a CEO undertaking a programme of acquisitions and consequent change in a plc.

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