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Peter
Sheahan is a best-selling author, successful business
consultant and internationally acclaimed speaker with a reputation
for transforming organizations by turning traditional paradigms on
their head. Appreciated globally for his cutting-edge insight into
workforce trends and generational change, Peter was among the first
to uncover the Generation Y revolution in the workplace in his
groundbreaking book Generation Y: Thriving (and Surviving) with
Generation Y at Work.
Not yet
thirty years old, he has built a multi-million dollar consulting
practice attracting top-calibre clients such as News Corporation,
Google, Coca-Cola, L’Oreal, Harley Davidson and Ernst & Young.
These global brands, among others, have engaged Peter to bring
their organizations up to speed on issues of generational change,
workplace trends, and rapidly changing employee and consumer
expectations. Sheahan’s success is driven by his ability to
identify areas of untapped potential within organizations, develop
the right thought processes and skills required to convert that
potential into performance, then engage with key individuals at all
levels, motivating them to make it a reality.
Peter’s
presentations shift leaders out of the world as it used to exist
and into the world as it exists today. He has delivered more than
2,000 presentations to a combined audience of more than 300,000
people in eight different countries. His clients describe his
entertaining presentations as "thought provoking", "insightful" and
"inspiring." In 2006, Sheahan was voted the leading Keynote Speaker
of the Year by the Australian National Speakers
Association.
Peter
graduated in the top one-percent of students before starting his
career in a large international accounting firm. Finding the
environment uninspiring, he left his corporate post after only
eight days to clean toilets in a pub. Within 18 months, at only 19
years of age, Peter was General Manager of a multi-million dollar
Sydney Hotel employing over 30 staff. It was during this time that
Peter discovered that many young employees were struggling to make
a successful transition from the classroom to work. Peter saw an
opportunity to educate young people to apply their skills and
talents in a way that was profitable for business, while providing
the next generation with a skill-set to sell themselves to
prospective employers.
Five
years later, Peter has worked with over 100,000 Gen Y-ers in more
than 1,500 workshops, seminars and focus groups sessions. While
Peter continues to work with this Generation in an educational
setting, his focus has since shifted to helping companies
understand the markedly different needs and expectations of
Generation Y in the workplace. It is his real world experience,
coupled with the fact that he is a Gen Y-er himself that makes
Peter one of the most sought after keynote speakers in the
world.
Peter’s
new book, FL!P: How counter-intuitive thinking is changing
everything – from branding and strategy to technology and
talent (Random House Australia, September 2007), focuses on
the four forces of change which are transforming the business
landscape. Building on his extensive work on Generation Y, in this
book Peter explains the dramatic impacts that changes in
technology, consumer market trends, demographics, and social
attitudes (the very same changes that made Gen Y what they are) are
having on business. Examining the key ‘flips’ leaders need to
adopt for the future, this book is both a compelling account of
changes that have occurred, and a toolkit for future-proofing your
operation against changes to come.
Sheahan
is a unique and inspiring consultant and corporate speaker whose
ideas and experiences are changing the face of the business
world.
For
cutting-edge insight into the future of business please
visit www.petersheahan.com
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