Peter Sheahan
Peter Sheahan works with leaders around the world to flip their thinking and help them find opportunities where others cannot. His clients include News Corporation, Google, Hilton Hotels, GlaxoSmithKline, Harley-Davidson, Cisco Systems and Goldman Sachs.After a short stint as a trainee accountant, Peter worked in the hotel industry and rose to the position of general manager of a $5 million hotel business at 19. He has since established himself as a highly successful entrepreneur and CEO of two multimillion-dollar businesses. In addition to his world-renowned thought-leadership practice, Peter is also the CEO of the Centre for Skills Development (CSD). The CSD specialises in large-scale social-change projects for clients such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IBM.Peter was named 'Young Entrepreneur of the Year' in New South Wales in 2003, and in 2006 he was voted by his peers as the leading keynote speaker in Australia. His insights into business trends and the changing needs of customers and staff make him a regular presenter on Fox Business, as well as appearing on the ABC and BBC TV networks. In 2008, he was a featured expert in a five-part global series called Innovations on CNBC, and he has been written about in the WASHINGTON POST and FAST COMPANY magazine.The author of five books, including two bestsellers - GENERATION Y and FLIP - he has delivered more than 2000 presentations to over 300,000 people in 15 different countries.He lives in Colorado with his wife, Sharon, and his two kids, Maddy and Tom.
News and Blog
You can’t contemplate your way to greatness. All the thinking, strategising and imagination in the world will amount to nothing unless at some point you take your offer to market. Ideas evolve tremendously when they are actually applied. This principle is recognised by celebrated economist Richard Thaler who provides, amongst a broad ranging body of work, groundbreaking analysis of the effect...
Flashes of inspiration don’t exist! Some people claim to have been in the shower when they thought up this genius business idea that made them millions. This is a myth. It quite simply is not true. Sure, they may have gained some additional clarity in the shower, but they were working on and thinking about what underpins that idea for months and even years before the genius struck. There...
