Peter Nixon

Peter Nixon works with independent consultants drawn from The Potential Network. Details of the consultants with whom Peter works most often are provided in the database on this website.

Professional Background

Peter Nixon, CA, FCPA, MSc. specialises in helping organisations (and individuals) fulfil their potential by ensuring the right people talk about the right issues in the right way and at the right time and place. Peter specialises in the facilitation, negotiation and implementation of change through dialogue. His international success arises from his belief that "The Solution is in the Dialogue" and his rare combination of financial skills (honed as an auditor for many years with one of the worlds' largest accounting firms) and communication skills (honed as a trainer and consultant with people from over 55 countries). Peter's dialogue solutions fall into three main areas: 1) get focused (facilitation), 2) get it right (negotiation) and 3) get it done (implementation). In addition to his dialogue work Peter also provides sales and consultant training to professional firms and private banks. He is founder of The Potential Network (launch planned for Q1, 2006) aiming to provide sourcing and contracting services to companies wishing to hire objectively rated independent consultants.

Academic Research

Peter's doctoral research aims to prove that enhanced negotiated outcomes come about by matching one's dialect (tactics, words, statements, questions and body language) to the productive orientation of the other party. Peter's work builds on the research of Erich Fromm (Man for Himself, The Sane Society etc.) and Elias Porter (Relationship Awareness Theory).

Family and Affiliations

Peter Nixon has appeared on CNBC and at a variety of international conferences speaking on various aspects of change management and negotiation. Peter is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the: Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ordre des Comptables Agrees du Quebec, Institute of Directors, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Peter is married to Marie, a kindergarten teacher and has three children (Ni Si, Long Tim and Jean-Pierre) with whom he spends considerable time. Peter lives in Hong Kong during the school term and in Montreal during July and August. When Peter is not busy with work or family he is reading in a plane or coffee shop or exercising in a gym or the great outdoors.