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Peter J. Leets, President, The Leets
Consortium
Peter is President of The
Leets Consortium, the Newport Beach, California, firm providing peerless
leadership development services worldwide. In his role as coach, Peter
brings to his clients successful experience as a Fortune 500 officer,
corporate president, entrepreneur and corporate governance leader. This,
combined with a pragmatic, supportive business-centered approach has led to
achieving client objectives in more than 95% of his engagements.
Peter and his family moved to Southern
California from New York City in 1987 when he joined the Geneva Corporation
as Executive Vice President. Later, he became President of this Irvine-based
M & A firm. Earlier, he was Vice President for Dell Publishing, with
worldwide marketing and sales responsibility. Peter’s career began with
marketing and sales management roles with Revlon, Johnson & Johnson and
Hallmark companies.
Prior to establishing TLC in 2003, he was
Regional Managing Principal with Right Management Consultants. He joined
them when his consulting business, Executive Assets Corporation was acquired
by them in 1994. While with Right, he led the team that introduced coaching
on a significant scale in 1996; created certification for all coaches in
1997; pioneered combining their two lines of business into one successful
team; and sold, designed and delivered LA Cellular the company’s first
multi-million dollar leadership development project.
Peter has been involved with corporate
governance for two decades, was a Director of the International Association
of Career Management Professionals, and is very active in the community. He
has been honored as a “Pink Tie Guy” by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, has
served on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and was Chairperson
for the Irvine Chamber of Commerce Business Outlook Conference.
As a speaker, he has been the keynote
speaker for Westec and delivered talks to UCI Executive MBA Speaker Series,
International Customer Service Association, FENG, FEI, Institute of
Management Accountants, Society for Advancement of Management and a variety
of corporations.
Peter’s clients include: ABC, Allergan,
Amgen, Bank of America, Black & Decker, CBS, CocaCola, ConAgra, Conexant,
Deloitte, The Walt Disney Company, Ernst & Young, Estee Lauder, Fluor,
Ingram Micro, Mattel, Mitsubishi Motors, New Line Cinema, New York Knicks,
Orange County Register, Paramount, PepsiCola, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Resources
Global, Sony Pictures, Taco Bell, UnitedHealth Group, Warner Brothers and
Watson Pharmaceuticals.
Peter holds a B.S. in Marketing from Indiana
University, and has earned Fellow Manager designation (1of 20 in the U.S.)
from the Institute of Career Certification. |
