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Name or Pseudonym:: Peter Cook

About Me:: Peter Cook – Profile

Peter Cook is Managing Director of Human Dynamics, a creativity and innovation management consultancy, which serves some of the world’s most prestigious organisations. These include Pfizer, Kent County Council, Glaxo Smith Kline, the Open University Business School, Unilever, Nat West Bank, Electronic Arts, Metropolitan Police and Johnson and Johnson.

He has over 20 years business, academic and consultancy experience, comprising:

• Leading innovative new product development teams

• Acting as a manufacturing trouble-shooter to businesses around the world

• Internal business and organisational development consultancy

• Designing, developing and delivering management development programmes

• Recording and performing music in a variety of disguises

Peter started life as a chemist, has a master’s degree in management and a ‘university of life’ qualification in international troubleshooting and leading rock bands. He brings this combination of theory and experience together in events that reach beyond the normal management consultancy fare.

Tutor on a number of Executive MBA programmes, including the acclaimed ‘Creativity, Innovation and Change’ and ‘Human Resource Strategy’ programmes. Peter is a noted speaker and writer on the subjects of strategic creativity, innovation and change management. He has been invited to speak at major conferences for organisations as diverse as British Telecom, Allianz Cornhill, Kent County Council and London Business School.

Peter holds an MBA from the Open University Business School, is a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Marketer. He is Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Branch Chair for the Institute and a Governor at Napier Community Primary School. An NLP master practitioner and lifelong learner.

Peter is author of ‘Best Practice Creativity’, which focuses on the art and discipline of inspiring creativity in organisations. Shortly to publish ‘Sex, Leadership and Rock ‘n’ Roll – Leadership Lessons from the Academy of Rock’, acclaimed by top business guru Tom Peters. His articles appear in numerous publications and he was given an award for an article on making knowledge management work.