Peter Hawkins, Chairman of Renewal Associates and co-founder of the Global Team Coaching Institute, is an Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Civil Service College (Singapore). He is a leading consultant, coach, writer, and researcher in organizational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development, and coaching. 

He has worked with many leading organizations all over the world including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa, and the United States, coaching Executive Teams and Boards, and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects. He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive teams, enabling them to develop their purpose, vision, values, collective leadership, and strategy for the future in a wide range of international large and small commercial companies, government departments, NHS Trusts, professional services organizations, and charities.

Peter is an international thought leader in Systemic Coaching, Executive Teams and Board Development, President of both the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision and the Academy of Executive Coaching, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Windsor Leadership Trust. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on the learning organization, leadership, and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in over 50 different countries around the world.

In 1986, Peter was a joint founder of Bath Consultancy Group and served as its chairman until the company was sold in 2010. He has chaired three other company boards as well as being a trustee director of several charities. He lives on the edge of Bath, UK, with 37 acres, which he shares with many animals and trees as well as his children, grandchildren, and leaders who come on courses and retreats.