Peter Merrill

A Business Consultant must be a good listener, a team player, be trustworthy and reliable, have good communication skills, and be able to provide expert knowledge.

Expert Knowledge

Peter Merrill brings deep knowledge of innovation, together with extensive experience. His career started in R&D and this was followed by Business Planning, Business Development and General Management, all in a major corporation. ‎He understands how business areas link together and understands systems thinking, fundamental to success in today's business world. He became Chief Executive of a leading brand in that corporation and doubled the size of the business in 18 months. This experience is a major asset for any client.

Over the last decade he has been a leader in the development of the International Guidelines on Innovation Management, ISO 56002. This has made him the lead for the new, auditable, ISO 56001 which will be a global standard on Innovation Management. He puts ISO standards into everyday language. ‎ He is constantly acquiring new knowledge and new skills. He is the ASQ thought leader on innovation, writing the Innovation Imperative column in Quality Progress and being founding chair of the ASQ Innovation Division. This provides a knowledge level possessed by few in his field and this gives the client a significant competitive edge.

A Good Listener with Good Communication Skills

He is a great communicator and has been the opening keynote speaker at innovation conferences in all five continents. He simplifies complex scenarios. He wrote the best thesis in his University Chemical Engineering year.

He has written books on Innovation which include Innovation Generation, Innovation Never Stops and ISO 56000, being but a few. In the Philip Crosby organization, a global leader in business training, he scored the highest recorded score from students in the Crosby Quality College. He is a first-class listener and a great facilitator who draws consensus from a group.

A Team Player

Many times in his life he has been asked by colleagues to lead. He understands Leadership, whether captaining a rugby team, chairing a national delegation, or being Chief Executive of a leading brand, which were all leadership positions he was asked to take. As a result, he understands teamwork and being able to draw collective knowledge, provide his own specific knowledge and arrive at results which make an organization a leader in its field. Peter Merrill is experienced at working with people in a wide variety of cultures having worked globally, both with his work in ISO and as an Internationally recognized conference speaker. This gives him the confidence to work in all cultures and all business arenas which is vital for a client in today’s global economy.

Trust, Reliability and Delivery

He has that rare blend of art and science. He is an accomplished artist and writer as well as having a science and engineering background. His Post Graduate Management degree had a particular focus on behavioral sciences. This gives him respect for the views in different disciplines, the ability to draw those views together by consensus and give the client the best outcome.

He has a long track record of successful consulting having worked with organizations such as IBM, AIG, and BlackBerry to name a few. Peter Merrill gets results for a client. He has reputation for reliability, and he is a trustworthy people person. He always goes the extra mile. Select Peter Merrill and you have a person who delivers results.

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