Pete Davies is a director of Next Step Management Training Limited and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He holds a coaching qualification from the Institute of Leadership and Management and is a Myers Briggs Personality Indicator practitioner. Pete is a very experienced executive coach and trainer and works with clients from across the public, private and voluntary sectors in both a national and international setting.

During his 35 year business career he worked initially for a major retail bank, before joining the police service and he has extensive experience in senior management and command positions at local, force wide and national levels achieving the rank of Chief Superintendent.

Pete has a strong background working with and leading multi-agency partnerships at an executive level, delivering strong and sustainable performance for example, as an Area Commander leading a team of 250 people, the strategic force lead on Diversity and prior to his retirement from the police service, as the Deputy Head of the National College of Police Leadership at Bramshill, where he was responsible for managing the delivery of national police senior leadership training.

He is particularly experienced in coaching managers from across all sectors to make the transition into more senior leadership roles, managing change and diversity in the workplace and building strong and effective teams.

He has an exceptional reputation in terms of his interpersonal skills and delivers highly effective, dynamic and challenging sessions to his clients with a clear focus on improving performance, setting and achieving personal goals, whilst managing a healthy work/life balance.