Mr. Peter Nixon

School of Management

Adjunct Faculty

Country: Canadian / Hong Kong

Expertise: Dialogue, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Business Development for Service Professionals, International Leadership, School Governance

Degrees: BBA (Bishop’s, Canada), GDPA (McGill, Canada) MSc (Leicester, UK)

Qualifications: FCPA (Hong Kong), CPA-CA (Quebec, Canada)Accredited Mediator (Hong Kong)

Research Interests: Dialogue, Conflict, Leadership Development, Negotiation

Professional Experience

Founder & Managing Director, Since 1994, Potential Limited, Potential Dialogue Institute, PDIOnline, Potential Dialogue Center
Honorary advisor - Ignitor Fellowship by the Nobel Peace Center
Founding course director - Financial Controllers’ Programme (HKICPA)
Directorships: Discovery Bay International School; Bishop’s University Asia Cabinet, McGill’ University Martlet Foundation; member Royal Geographic Society in HK
Visiting professorships (current & past): HKU Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health; Chinese University (MBA); PolyU: McGill; SFU; Bishop’s; Royal Roads: Tsinghua; Fudan; SUFE; UIBE: Webster.
Former trustee Outward Bound HK; governance committee member UNICEF HK; Speaker’s Committee Chair Canadian Chamber of Commerce; British, American, French Chambers of Commerce in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Directors.
Auditor, Coopers & Lybrand (PwC) 1984-1993: Montreal, Geneva, Hong Kong

Professional Recognitions

Asia HR Community Award (2019) for “his key role in building human capital expertise and high impact individuals and organizations through innovative and pathbreaking consultative work and people engagement”.
Top 10 Change Management Consulting Services Companies in APAC (2019)
Best Independent Change Management Consultant (2018)
TEDx HKUST (2014), Colgate President’s Award (winner), HKMA Training Award (nominee)

Selected Publications