President DOIT
International
Summary
Peter Ryding is an award winning serial CEO and company Chairman. He has
personally rescued nine businesses from failure, including two PLCs, and helped
many more grow their profit at extraordinary rates. Peter is a top executive
coach and mentor to CEOs and to other coaches who coach CEOs.
He is a Chartered Engineer from Imperial College, has an MBA from London
Business School and numerous qualifications in psychology and advanced coaching
skills. The science of learning has always intrigued Peter. This led to him
becoming Dean of the UK’s leading corporate university, setting up Skills
Academies in companies of all sizes, and running some of the world’s leading
training companies - including the largest coach training business and John
Cleese’s Video Arts Group International.
After his early international career in Esso Petroleum and Mars Inc.
Peter joined the venture capital firm 3i and became an expert at accelerated
profit improvement. It was here that he developed his unique methodology called
DOIT, which he and his clients consistently say ‘only works’.
Peter’s
remarkable energy has also seen him running a series of companies as CEO and
Chairman. His successes have won national awards for sales growth and profit
improvement and he was voted onto the main board of the prestigious Institute
for Turnaround (IFT). In 2004 he received the IFT’s best company rescue of the
year award. At the awards ceremony in the Savoy hotel the BBCs Chief Business
Editor, Jeff Randall, said:
“Peter’s
unique combination of business and psychology skills and experience enables him
to achieve phenomenal results – which he has done consistently.”
Lord
Digby Jones said of Peter’s amusing business book, ‘Houston we MAY have
problem!’: “Reading this book could be the best spent 30 minutes of your
career.”
Peter has also written a series of books called ‘Well I never Knew That!’,
where he traces the fascinating origins of words and phrases that he uses in
his keynote speeches and as a coach.
Peter is now on a mission to help 10 million people achieve ‘More success with
less stress’. To this end he has applied his unique combination of business
experience, personal development tools and knowledge of how people learn to
create the unique online DOIT Success System.
Detailed
Background
Here
is more information about the 5 main areas of Ryding’s background…
1 AWARD WINNING BUSINESS TURNAROUND EXPERT
Ryding is a fully accredited company doctor and
has personally led the rescue of nine businesses including family owned, VC backed
and plcs. He has played a critical role in seven more as a strategic advisor to
the board and has a unique 100% track record of success. He won the national
award for best turnaround in 2004 and in 2006 was voted by the UKs top
turnaround specialists onto the main board of the national Institute for
Turnaround. He has written and spoken widely about turnaround including regular
columns and occasional pieces in newspapers, newsletters and business
magazines.
One of his corporate rescues has been filmed as a docu-drama and is used as a
role model in training venture capitalists, bankers, lawyers and other
advisors. His acclaimed and amusing turnaround book titled “Houston we MAY have
problem” gained the following plaudits.
“Reading this book could be the best spent 30 minutes
of your career and save you a lot more than your job!”
- Sir Digby Jones (ex Director General of CBI and
Government advisor)
“I commend this book to anyone who feels that they MAY
be facing business challenges ... amusing and entertaining but without pulling
any punches.”
- Sir John Harvey Jones (Industrialist and TV “Troubleshooter”)
When Ryding rescued Video Arts Group International in
2003 John Cleese, (the founder and comedian) said…
“Peter has put the ‘magic’ back into Video Arts.”
- John Cleese, Founder Video Arts Group International
“In less than 3 years we took our business from the
edge of bankruptcy to a trade sale for over $80m. Peter and his approach were
critical in making that happen.”
- Philip Bolt, CEO & President Orthogon Systems
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explore how DOIT Turnaround Services can help you and your business.
2 TOP EXECUTIVE COACH & MENTOR TO CEOS
AND THEIR BOARDS
Ryding
has been a professional coach and mentor to CEOs since he established
Pathfinder Executive Coaching in 1999. This followed years of training and
gaining qualifications in psychology, psychotherapy and advanced coaching
techniques and a trend for his peers and contacts to seek his help in dealing
with business and personal challenges. This has given him a deep understanding
of people.
In 2007 an independent big four survey found him to be one of the top coaches
to CEOs in the UK and in 2011 he was chosen as one of the top coaches in the
world to speak at the prestigious World Business and Executive Coaching
Conference. He uses unique director development programmes, and high impact 1-1
and team coaching to free up 20% of his clients time, double their personal
productivity and show them how to become an inspiring leader who then massively
increases productivity and profitability of their staff throughout their
organisation. Ryding shares fascinating case studies, provides business
and life changing insights that makes his clients go “Wow!” and reveals how
they can harness the awesome power of their subconscious mind.
He explodes the common myths of leadership, builds unstoppable inner self
confidence and becomes a trusted confidant who can to provide life changing
insights and focus directors upon the 20% of things that make 80% of the
difference both within their business and within themselves.
Peter has established coaching cultures within many organisations, personally
trained over 500 coaches and has overseen the training of over 10,000 coaches.
“Peter’s unique combination of business
and psychology skills and experience enables him to achieve phenomenal results
– which he has done consistently.”
- Jeff Randall, Chief BBC Business Editor
“Peter blows away the fog and fires me up to do what
needs to be done.”
- CEO
“Peter saved my business and my marriage.”
- David Brown CEO FOML
“I can personally highly recommend Peter Ryding for
his professional coaching and mentoring skills at the highest level.”
- Nick Ferguson Serial CEO
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Mentoring Services can help you.
3 STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO TOP TEAMS &
DOIT WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Ryding
draws upon his international blue chip experience including Esso, Mars and EMI
, plus as a venture capitalist with 3i and as a serial CEO and Chairman. He
then adds the latest thinking from business gurus, serial entrepreneurs, and
strategic thinkers to provide radical new ideas and mindsets, to refresh and
transform strategies, accelerate profitability, inspire staff, delight
customers and shareholders and scare competition.
Peter brings his qualifications as a Chemical Engineer from Imperial College, a
Chartered Systems Engineer, an MBA from London Business School, and numerous
other diplomas in business and psychology to ensure rigorous intellectual
thinking and combines them with his practical real world experience to ensure
that his advice and outcomes are always entirely deliverable.
Ryding also brings multifunctional experience from his roles as a CTO, CIO,
COO, MD, CEO, CRO(Chief Restructuring Officer), Executive Chairman, Non
executive Chairman and NXD.
All this kicks off with the unique DOIT “Strategy to Action” workshop that is
absolutely GUARANTEED to transform any existing project or business and take
it’s performance to another level of success. Or to springboard a new
initiative to much earlier success than had been thought possible.
This workshop and follow up programme has already transformed businesses and
projects of all sizes from SMEs to international plcs and global multibillion
pound technology projects. Plus it has acted as a springboard for success for
pre revenue starts ups and other brand new projects and initiatives.
Ryding also advises CEOs and their boards as a non executive director and
Chairman for businesses led by ambitious and highly motivated leadership teams.
“As Peter says and I have come to verify, the DOIT
process that underpins the workshop ALWAYS & ONLY works. It has tripled our
profit in less than 3 years!”
- Stewart Blake, CEO Global Reach
“The workshop was undoubtedly the best management
workshop I have ever experienced in my 30 year career.”
- Robin Cave, City CEO
“Peter and the DOIT process has added tens of millions
of pounds to our market cap’ in less than 12 months.”
- Neil Taylor, Operations Director Major retail plc
“Peter is my secret weapon for business success.”
- Robert Grenville, MD Private Equity fund
“Peter is unique. Very special. He and the DOIT
process really crystallised the situation and helped us work through some very
complex and difficult scenarios. We delivered 5 years work in 12 months.”
- Bradley Mead, MD Ericsson Services
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Action” Workshop can help you and your top team.
4 LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CHAMPION
Ryding
has always been an advocate and personal champion of continuous learning and
the need for constant personal development.
He is a qualified Chemical Engineer, a Chartered Systems Engineer, has an MBA
from London Business School and over 20 other diplomas including marketing,
strategic thinking, board room best practice, psychology and advanced executive
coaching and mentoring.
He was Dean of the UKs top Corporate University for 4 years, has lectured at
London Business School, set up Corporate Staff and Leadership Skills Academies,
ran training companies that have trained over 1,000,000 customers, overseen the
direct training of over 20,000 people and personally trained over 2,000 people
in specialist skills. This includes, CEOs, COOs, CTOs, bankers, venture capitalists,
business coaches and turnaround experts.
Ryding has studied both the art and science of learning including why most
training achieves less than 5% recall after just 12 weeks and how to use
psychology to make all sorts of learning, including e-learning, work.
It is this knowledge that underpins the power and effectiveness of the DOIT
Success System and the interactive design and structure of the unique ‘DOIT
Discovery Module” training programmes.
“Our new DOIT based Skills Academy has won the hearts and
minds of our staff. It provides them with the best training and career
advancement in the sector and delivers greater productivity and profit to the
business.”
- Jason Cromack, CEO Triple Arc plc
“Peter’s DOIT Discovery Modules are excellent. Great
content, rapid learning, fun to do and VERY memorable. And even if you do
forget something its always there waiting for you 24/7.”
- Steve Spence , Director Apple Inc.
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Modules and the DOIT Success System can help your orgnaisation.
5 MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER AND CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Ryding
is a popular, compelling, entertaining and acclaimed business and motivational
speaker on topics such as …
“The Truths and Myths of Leadership in the 21st century”,
“Houston we MAY have a problem! – Tales of a Turnaround Technician.”
and
“A Secret Formula for Your Future Success!”
He also interweaves his passion and knowledge for the fascinating origins of
words and phrases in the English language into his presentations to add fun and
provide the audience with “take homes” for their families as well as his many
business nuggets. He has written 5 books on etymology which can be provided as
fun and memorable gifts for the audience if desired.
Ryding has won several “top speaker” awards and typically scores feedback of
9/10 or 10/10.
Ryding is also a very experienced, professional and energising Conference
Chairman who ensures that the audience is engaged, speakers stick to time, that
they give the audience valuable take-aways and that they actually answer the
difficult questions that the audience asks! And he brings a variety of
powerful networking techniques that can add yet further value to attendees such
that they rate the event very highly and rebook for the next one.
Given his psychological and coaching background it is not surprising that
Ryding is excellent at interviewing high profile VIP guests, getting the most
out of them and ensuring that all parties find it a very positive and memorable
experience.
Ryding has chaired many different conferences and awards ceremonies including
professional bodies such as the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants of
England and Wales), and IFT (Institute for Turnaround) and hosted corporate
events.
“I enjoyed that – a great interviewer.”
- Theo Paphitis , CEO Rymans and Dragons Den
“Peter Ryding is an excellent and very experienced
speaker and event chairman. His presentations at the ICAEW Corporate Finance
Faculty are always entertaining, practical and insightful and very well
received. Peter also chairs the sessions expertly and really engages with the
speakers. Feedback from delegates was resoundingly positive and everyone was
impressed by how Peter really made them think! Peter is a pleasure to work with
and I recommend him whole heartedly.”
- Rachael Kinsella, Manager ICAEW
“We were introduced to Peter Ryding when we were
looking for a pan European CEO forum and we liked him so much we used him not
only as speaker but to chair the whole conference. He was fantastic in both
roles. He really engaged with our industry and the whole programme and took the
time to ensure he had a genuine understanding of the challenges we
face. He hosted the whole programme, including interviews with Theo
Paphitis and panel discussions and achieved real insights into all topics. He
also took the time to talk with delegates in the breaks and used their feedback
in the programme. We highly recommend him to any other conference programme.”
- Janet Bell, Director of OP International
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