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About This Speaker
Dr. Peter J. Dean, PhD, founder and president of Leaders By Design, is at the forefront of motivating and educating top executives and managers around the world. Dr. Dean founded Leaders By Design as a company that specializes in consulting and coaching executives with the intent to develop their leadership and management skills. In the process of working with prestigious corporations and organizations such as Microsoft, Shire, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, UNISYS, American Express, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and the US Department of Energy, Dr. Dean has also authored six books on leadership in the corporate world, with a seventh in press. His books include:
- Breaking into the Boys’ Club: 8 Ways for Women to Get Ahead in Business
- Manual for Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right
- Performance Improvement Interventions: Methods for Organizational Learning Systems, Systems Design and Organization Culture
- The Business of Medicine: What Every Physician Leader Needs to Know
- Philosophy and Practice of Organizational Learning, Performance and Change
- Leadership for Everyone: How to Apply the Seven Essential Skills to Become a Great Motivator, Influencer and Leader
- The Coachable Leader: What Future Executives Need to Know Today (his latest book which will be in circulation shortly)
In addition, Dr. Dean has designed five masters programs at four universities on the subjects of leadership, management, physician executive MBA, instructional systems and human ecology as well as year-long leader development programs for the University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, Rockwell International, and KPMG.
Dr. Dean has been invited to coach, consult, and speak to corporate executives in 14 different countries - Switzerland, Pakistan, India, Australia, Afghanistan, Mexico, Germany, United States of America, England, Spain, Sweden, and Canada. In his lectures and training sessions, Dr. Dean merges his expertise with innovative thinking and solutions.
To corporate leaders, Dr. Dean stresses the changing face of the current workforce and offers creative and advantageous ways to deal with these changes. He has identified key leadership fundamentals that, when employed, will be the most beneficial to the company as a whole, and works with leaders in order to ensure their development.
What Clients Are Saying
“Dr. Dean is a thoughtful, research-based yet very human speaker – he speaks about the many opportunities to lead and you realize that you have missed some chance to do so, yet leaves you excited about your own leader development." -
Angus Russel, Shire Pharmaceuticals, CEO
“Dr. Dean provides real world examples that allow the audience member to reflect on their own personal leader development, impact and character." –
Judy Schueler, University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, VP of Organizational Development and Human Resources
“Peter provides a nice human touch by being transparent about his own experiences, applying the leadership behaviors he speaks about." –
Michele Dorris, Campbell’s Soup, Director of Order to Cash
Recent Clients
Founder & President, Leaders By Design, Philadelphia, PA, USA
International Executive Coaching Firm (1986-present)
Client Companies: Shire, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, J&J, IBC, BMS, Comcast, Shriners Hospitals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Saint Gobain, National Grid, PECO, Lincoln Financial Group, Rohm & Hass, HBO/TimeWarner, Omnicom, Unisys, DuPont, BCBS, Microsoft, GM, GSK, CIT, Sprint, Motorola, Oak Ridge National, Laboratories, Lockheed-Martin, American Airlines, National Security Agency, WAWA, ARAMARK, US Trust, Merrill-Lynch, Morgan Stanley, United Way of South East Pennsylvania, Rockwell International, Wilmington Trust, National MS Society, Japanese American Society, University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, The Wharton School, Brown University, Harvard University, Temple University, Bancroft, KPMG, ACE, ACME, UBS, Penn Mutual (Janney Montgomery Scott)
Countries: Switzerland, Pakistan, India, Australia, Afghanistan, Canada, Mexico, Germany, England, Spain, Sweden & Sri Lanka |
