Simon is the founder of Peer2Peer and has an impressive career behind him. A passionate believer in working towards being your best self through business success, mindset management and health and well-being, Simon is a powerhouse of ideas and motivation with the business acumen to drive change and create momentum.

Simon became a franchisee of the global DPD Group back in 2001. He has been successfully running the Bournemouth and Southampton branches ever since. Simon works with frustrated business owners and CEOs on a day to day basis, turning their frustration with hidden surcharges, late deliveries and call centre madness into wonderful client relationships with eyewatering lifetime value. There’s very little Simon doesn’t know about the first-class customer experience!

Simon has worked with all sorts of companies and business leaders throughout his career, from global household names to start-up entrepreneurs. He is committed to helping P2P Members thrive in every way. 

Beverley Poole is an award-winning mentor including a tech start up. She has spent many years working in business leadership, training and education, enabling people to develop their skills and strategic plans for business growth. Passionate about helping others to succeed, in addition to her business clinics and mentoring activities she also developed Aspire4BusinessAcademy in 2019. A fully hosted platform to support the development of online eLearning, your membership programmes, outsourced L&D and onboarding.

Additionally, Beverley has built and sold three businesses in training, recruitment and hospitality with a current market value of £2.5m. Beverley was a director of a P&O subsidiary company through acquisition of her own start up. She was also instrumental in the development of one of the first interactive technology companies in the UK and was part of the DfE skills gaps programme as Director of Business centres.

Today she brings her expertise from these and the fledgling businesses of others, her academic underpinning in human development, lifelong learning, certificated coaching and mentoring as a member of the ABM, to help support individuals with their personal development and their growing businesses. Her comment to clients is “This is no longer your job; this is your business and it needs new skills”. With success from zero to hero in a year on a number of projects, sitting as a Peer2PeerGlobal Chair sits well in her portfolio, with a fantastic opportunity for business people wanting to grow their businesses, successful entrepreneurs learning from their peers and senior leaders wishing to develop more rounded skills.

Simon is the founder of Peer2Peer and has an impressive career behind him. A passionate believer in working towards being your best self through business success, mindset management and health and well-being, Simon is a powerhouse of ideas and motivation with the business acumen to drive change and create momentum.

Simon became a franchisee of the global DPD Group back in 2001. He has been successfully running the Bournemouth and Southampton branches ever since. Simon works with frustrated business owners and CEOs on a day to day basis, turning their frustration with hidden surcharges, late deliveries and call centre madness into wonderful client relationships with eyewatering lifetime value. There’s very little Simon doesn’t know about the first-class customer experience!

Simon has worked with all sorts of companies and business leaders throughout his career, from global household names to start-up entrepreneurs. He is committed to helping P2P Members thrive in every way. 

Jeremy Old is chair for the New Forest Peer2Peer board. He sees this as an exciting opportunity to help small businesses transform their productivity and profits whilst at the same time keeping a healthy work life balance.

Qualified to MBA level with a post graduate diploma in psychotherapy, Jeremy has twenty-five year’s experience helping small-business leaders improve their profitability in a wide range of industry sectors from manufacturing to a variety of business and health care services.

Jeremy achieves consistently successful results through a unique blend of team planning, applied psychology and systems thinking, as well as his own infectious enthusiasm for improving everything in a business, everywhere, all at the same time. Key benefits are the rapid speed with which the teams achieve results, and the exceptional and widespread employee engagement. His team planning methods also tend to take the stress out of major business transformations, turnarounds, and high growth trajectories.

Long experience and personal research into systems thinking, and the neuroscience of leadership have led Jeremy to write “Reinventing management thinking – Using science to liberate the human spirit”. In this book Jeremy dispels a number of common misconceptions about leadership including how leaders often unwittingly demotivate their staff and provoke unnecessary costs and why, as a result, their organisations underperform. In essence the book reveals how to work with innate human needs to liberate employee energy, creativity, loyalty, commitment and focus, to create a high-performance work culture.

Steve Knowles is a business advisor and Chartered Accountant who established his own practice in 1985. He recently took on the mantle of Chairman, after 35 years as MD, allowing him to focus his time and attention on his true passion—mentoring business owners and entrepreneurs.

In 2011, Steve was named Mentor of the Year by Connect Yorkshire. He plays an active part in encouraging young entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, helping them create and deliver successful pitches for funding.

Steve served as a Governor for 6 years at the Sheffield College, before being asked to become Chairman. During Steve’s tenure, the college was upgraded from Special Measures status to Outstanding by Ofsted.

In 2019, Steve was shortlisted for Advisor of the Year at the Yorkshire Accountancy Awards.

Father and daughter Paul and Hannah Wallis are Co-Chair at The New Place Hotel Peer2Peer Board.

Paul has been running the family business Hantec Systems in ISO management consultancy since 1995. Prior to joining the family fold in 2018, Hannah was a Primary School teacher. Together, they combine their vast experience in strategy, risk management and sustainable growth with a love for meeting new people, forging real connections and making a difference.

Paul has owned multiple businesses in consultancy, software development, security vetting and manufacturing, and brings his many years of experience of growing and selling businesses. His passion for business compliance is a bit strange but he is pretty good at it. He likes to tell people that he helps organizations make more money and stay out of gaol.

Life-learner Hannah has an BSc in Geography, Primary PGCE and is currently completing a Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Winchester. In addition, she is a Mental Health First Aider and Motivational Maps Licenced Practitioner, for both adults & children. Hannah loves to get her teeth into growth projects, helping clients align their people, their motivations and their wellbeing with the strategy and direction of the organization.

Father and daughter Paul and Hannah Wallis are Co-Chair at The New Place Hotel Peer2Peer Board.

Paul has been running the family business Hantec Systems in ISO management consultancy since 1995. Prior to joining the family fold in 2018, Hannah was a Primary School teacher. Together, they combine their vast experience in strategy, risk management and sustainable growth with a love for meeting new people, forging real connections and making a difference.

Paul has owned multiple businesses in consultancy, software development, security vetting and manufacturing, and brings his many years of experience of growing and selling businesses. His passion for business compliance is a bit strange but he is pretty good at it. He likes to tell people that he helps organizations make more money and stay out of gaol.

Life-learner Hannah has an BSc in Geography, Primary PGCE and is currently completing a Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Winchester. In addition, she is a Mental Health First Aider and Motivational Maps Licenced Practitioner, for both adults & children. Hannah loves to get her teeth into growth projects, helping clients align their people, their motivations and their wellbeing with the strategy and direction of the organization.

Simon is the founder of Peer2Peer and has an impressive career behind him. A passionate believer in working towards being your best self through business success, mindset management and health and well-being, Simon is a powerhouse of ideas and motivation with the business acumen to drive change and create momentum.

Simon became a franchisee of the global DPD Group back in 2001. He has been successfully running the Bournemouth and Southampton branches ever since. Simon works with frustrated business owners and CEOs on a day to day basis, turning their frustration with hidden surcharges, late deliveries and call centre madness into wonderful client relationships with eyewatering lifetime value. There’s very little Simon doesn’t know about the first-class customer experience!

Simon has worked with all sorts of companies and business leaders throughout his career, from global household names to start-up entrepreneurs. He is committed to helping P2P Members thrive in every way. 

John has 30 years’ experience of working within global organisations. As the Executive Vice President of the global DPD Group, John was instrumental in driving five consecutive years of triple market growth in international business. 

With a natural passion and enthusiasm for Strategy, Innovation and Disruption, he is well placed to support other business leaders in the formulation of their strategic thinking and innovation. 

Throughout his successful career, John has had numerous opportunities to work with each of the major consultancies. One consultancy stood apart from the others, Decision Processes International (DPI) – possibly the best kept secret in Europe. John worked closely with DPI during 2005, 2008 and again in 2011. DPI’s involvement was critical in reshaping the strategic thinking and direction of DPD and resulted in the creation of three tipping points that transformed the vision and success of the business. Having been a client of this consultancy, when leaving DPD in 2012, an opportunity to forge a relationship with DPI presented itself to John and he is now the Managing Partner for DPI Europe.
 

Peter is a dynamic and accomplished leader, renowned for executive level engagement, strategic planning and financial expertise. 

Having enjoyed a 30-year career in Financial Services – 14 in the City of London – Peter is now committed to business coaching and helping business owners and leaders to realise growth potential and fulfil their ambitions. An empowering motivator, Peter is adept at cultivating high performing teams. He has an innovative, positive and entrepreneurial mindset and extensive experience leading successful improvement projects. A member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Peter’s structured and persistent approach to overcoming challenges is a real asset to his clients and his resilience and dedication have proven vital throughout his career. 

Since leaving Financial Services Peter has successfully run his own coaching business and works with SMEs on a consultancy basis to help them grow both their businesses and their skills.

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