Peter Sheahan
Bestselling Author and World Renowned Speaker on Exploiting Business Trends and New Market Opportunities. Expert in Gen Y Trends
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Dynamic, energetic, fantastic.
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Profile
Peter Sheahan has established a globally recognized brand as a leading expert in workforce trends and generational change. In the space of three years he has built a multi-million dollar consulting practice attracting clients such as Newscorp, Google, Coca-Cola, L'Oreal and Ernst & Young.
Peter is a successful entrepreneur and founder of two multi-million dollar companies. He is author of five books including the bestsellers Fl!p: How to turn everything you know on its head and succeed beyond your wildest imaginings and Generation Y: Thriving (and Surviving) with Generation Y at work. His new book is now available titled Making $#IT Happen. - Turning your Good Ideas into Great Results. Peter is the Expert on CNBC The Business of Innovation, did a five part Global Special in 2008 and is a Regular on Fox Business.
Master of Identifying Untapped Potential
Peter Sheahan has spent a decade teaching business how to flip their thinking and find opportunity where others cannot. He believes that the real money gets made in the cracks, and that the opportunity for mind-blowing success is all around us. The problem is we get conditioned by our experience, blinded by our business models and conned by the popular media to believe success is a product of the economic conditions. Peter will show audiences how to be up, in an upside-down world. He will not only help you and your people to develop the mindset required to find opportunity everywhere, he will mobilize you to exploit it. A former General Manager of a $10 million hotel business, Peter Sheahan has established himself as a highly successful entrepreneur. In addition to his world renowned thought leadership practice, Peter is also the CEO of the Centre for Skills Development (CSD). The CSD specializes in large scale social change projects for clients such as Apple and IBM.
Peter’s clients include Newscorp, Google, Hilton Hotels, GlaxoSmithKline, Harley Davidson, Cisco and Goldman Sachs. He has authored five books including the international best sellers Generation Y and Fl!p (which is now in 25 countries).
Peter’s outstanding achievements were first officially recognized in 2003 when Peter had the honor of being named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in his home state. He has delivered more than 2000 presentations to over 300,000 people in 15 different countries. In 2006, Peter was awarded the National Speakers Association Keynote Speaker of the Year, as voted by his peers.
Clients Comments
Client Testimonial for Fl!p
“Over the last few years, News Corporation America has been engaging Peter Sheahan to flip the way its leaders think about their business, and the talent within it. From the creative's in the editing rooms of LA, to the Chairman himself in New York, Peter has had a profound impact on this company. It is very rare to find someone who is engaging on the platform and whose work is clearly based on ground-breaking research and genuine insight into what makes a business and its leaders successful in today's uncertain marketplace. Peter Sheahan is one of those people. I have no hesitation recommending Peter to any organization looking to drive innovation deeper in their company, and wanting to inspire their leaders to think differently and take the necessary risks to future-proof the business.”
- Tiffany LaBanca, Senior Vice President, Internal Communications, News Corporation
ClientTestimonial for X-Factor
“Peter Sheahan is one of the best presenters to a business audience I have ever seen. He is a master of his topic and he delivers his presentation with great style and passion, captivating the entire audience with excellent humor, appropriate anecdotes, memorable metaphors and authentic sense of purpose.”
- David C M Carter, Chairman, Merryck & Co
Client Testimonial for Next Gen Profits
“Thank you for your thought provoking presentation at Google's HQ in Mountain View. A number of Google staffers reached out to say how much they enjoyed your thought/discussion provoking presentation. You gave us great insight into the minds of literally hundreds of potential Googlers. For us to better understand how to motivate and develop that talent will certainly be key to our continued success.”
- Sue Polo, Engineering and Operations Staffing Manager, Google
Client Testimonial for Opportunity Knocks
“We had Peter present to a group of our select clients in 2008, and the over whelming response was ‘how do we get him back and expose a broader cross-section of managers to his ideas and strategies’. I can confidently say Peter is a world class expert on his topic, and first-class presenter too. I have no problem recommending him to other American companies looking to drive innovation and leadership throughout their business."
- Karl E. Hansen, President , The Vita Companies
Topics
- SPEECH TOPICS
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All of Peter Sheahan's sessions are highly customized and detailed session descriptions follow initial briefing and background research.
- Making $#IT Happen - Turning Your Good Ideas into Great Results
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There is something you want, isn't there? Is it more success? More money? Greater impact? More control?
The question is, do you want it enough to part with your time, money and energy for some insight into how to make it a reality? If so, Making it Happen is the book for you.
Are you ready to answer the call? Are you going to leave your current organisation better than when you arrived, or set up a successful company of your own? Is your career going to be worth talking about? What will you tell your children, and your children's children, about your life? Will they be proud? Will they want to retell your story? Will your life be an example of what is possible?
The world is full of ideas - everyone has them - but the world does not have enough people who know how to turn their ideas into great results. Peter Sheahan is here to help you to make a difference. - Fl!p: How to find and exploit opportunities in an upside down world
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Fl!p is your inspiring, future-focused strategy for finding opportunities in a down market through courageous leadership, innovation and change. To remain competitive, organizations not only need to shift the mindsets of their current leaders, but must also develop a deep understanding of the changing expectations of both customers and talent. Emphasizing the need for mindset flexibility, Fl!p will reveal the changing nature of leadership; the evolution of business models; and deliver literally dozens of examples and strategies for finding opportunity and making money in tough economic times. Fl!p is a philosophy not just for reacting to changing markets, but for being the force of change in your market.
- X-Factor: Finding the NEW sources of competitive advantage by getting to the heart of why people buy.
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Commoditization is not inevitable – or at least it doesn’t have to be. Today your sources of competitive advantage have moved from the traditional tangible categories of price, speed and quality into the intangible realm of story, relationships and social identity. In tough economic times buyers will demand value more than ever. Knowing what value represents to the modern consumer, and to great talent as well, will be the secret to thriving while everyone else is focused on surviving. X-Factor will be your crash course in behavioral economics, brand development and the changing demands of customers and staff.
- Market-Ability: Unleashing the spirit of entrepreneurship in your business so you can turn good ideas into great Results
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There is no shortage of ideas in the world. There is a shortage of people with the ability to transform those ideas into reality. With a very hard-edge, this session will reveal the 5 phases that you need to first instigate, and then navigate, if you want to turn your good ideas into great results. Combining the need for imagination and action, Market-Ability will go deep into the secrets of positioning ideas, products and services in a way that makes people not only pay attention, but part with their time, money and energy. There is no point having a new idea, developing your new strategy or embarking on a journey of transformation if your people can’t make it happen in the real world. Market-Ability will show you how.
- Next Gen Profits: Attract, Manage and Profit from the Next Generation of Customers and Staff
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Generation Y (AKA Millennials) represents one the most lucrative opportunities open to business today. Whether you want to unleash their creativity at work, get your share of the $200bn they spend annually, or align yourself to profit from the$17.8 trillion they will inherit in the coming years, you will need a fresh approach to branding, sales and leadership. Every generation sees the world in a unique way. Human needs never change, but our definitions of whether those needs are being met change dramatically based on how we were brought up and the environment that surrounded us. If you are going to attract and retain the new generation as customers, members and staff you will need to understand their new perspectives and definitions. In these massively uncertain economic times embracing Generation Y offers a unique opportunity to leverage the fresh ideas they bring and get your share of the lucrative market opportunity they offer.