Peter Atkinson
Peter Atkinson, Chartered Fellow CIPD, is a professionally qualified trainer and coach who has led and facilitated commercially focused financial management and business skills training programmes in the UK, Angola, South Africa, France, the Czech Republic, Holland, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland and Cyprus.
Before moving into training Peter had over 20 years operational and commercial experience having held senior management roles in the Granada Group, the Doctus Consulting Group and Fujitsu in the UK and in the NZ operations of Unisys and Xerox.
Peter's training and coaching activity has included:
- Designing and leading financial management courses for senior managers from companies that have included Jury’s Hotels, Cummins Engines, HP, Nuffield Health, Siemens, the Royal Festival Hall, Lotus, IBM, Dell, the Post Office, the Railways Pension Management Team, the NHS and NPower together with designing many open small business workshops.
- Providing 1: 1 financial management coaching for operational management and board level executives.
- Facilitating financial management, business skills and career management workshops for the MoD, the delegates from which have included the most senior figures in the British Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.
- For Motorola, he led the first ever UK Sales Academy (based initially on the company’s US model) and was a member of the design team that produced a “business-critical” sales and management coaching programme in which Post Office management, staff and business partners at every level across the UK participated.
Peter has also been active in career management and corporate transition projects for over 15 years. In that time he has been involved with a number of major clients (including Sun Microsystems, Procter & Gamble, the MoD, Pfizer, Nortel, the Public Trust, British Gas and BAe) as a project manager, facilitator, trainer and coach.
Consultancy Style
Whether as a trainer or as a business coach, Peter has a passion for financial management. His approach and belief is that, by building awareness of the language of finance, any organisation can enhance communication and cooperation across functions – both internally and externally – and so contribute to personal, team and corporate success.
This belief informs Peter’s approach that it is essential to understand an organisation’s business vision and business drivers when designing a training programme and that all training must be hugely participative, practical, enjoyable and very “hands-on”!
Qualifications
Peter Atkinson's professional qualifications and development skills are as follows:-
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Member of the Chartered Quality Institute
- Certified Diploma in Financial Management (CDinFM)
- AAT Accounting Qualification and Diploma in Finance
- Diploma in Leadership and Management
