Peter J. Leets

Peter is President of The Leets Consortium, the Newport Beach, California, firm providing peerless leadership development services worldwide.  In his role as coach, Peter brings to his clients successful experience as a Fortune 500 corporation officer, corporate president, entrepreneur and corporate governance leader.  This, combined with a pragmatic, supportive business-centered approach has led to achieving client objectives in more than 95% of his engagements.

Peter and his family moved to Southern California from New York City in 1987 when he joined the Geneva Corporation as Executive Vice President.  Later, he became President of this Irvine-based M & A firm.  Earlier, he was Vice President for Dell Publishing, with worldwide marketing and sales responsibility.  Peter’s career began with marketing and sales management roles with Revlon, Johnson & Johnson and Hallmark companies.

Prior to establishing TLC in 2003, he was Regional Managing Principal with Right Management Consultants.  He joined them when his consulting business, Executive Assets Corporation was acquired by them in 1994.  While with Right, he led the team that introduced coaching on a significant scale in 1996; created certification for all coaches in 1997 which was adopted throughout 350 offices worldwide; and sold, designed and delivered LA Cellular the company’s first multi-million dollar leadership development project.

Peter has been involved with corporate governance for two decades, was a Director of the International Association of Career Management Professionals, and is very active in the community.  He has been honored as a “Pink Tie Guy” by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, has served on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and was Chairperson for the Irvine Chamber of Commerce Business Outlook Conference.

As a speaker, he has been the keynote speaker for Westec and delivered talks to UCI Executive MBA Speaker Series, International Customer Service Association, FENG, FEI, Institute of Management Accountants, Society for Advancement of Management and a variety of corporations.

Peter’s clients include: ABC, Allergan, Amgen, Bank of America, Black & Decker, CBS, CocaCola, ConAgra, Conexant, Deloitte, The Walt Disney Company, Ernst & Young, Estee Lauder, Fluor, Ingram Micro, Mattel, Mitsubishi Motors, New Line Cinema, Orange County Register, Paramount, PepsiCola, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Resources Global, Sony Pictures, Taco Bell, Warner Brothers and Watson Pharmaceuticals.

Peter holds a B.S. in Marketing from Indiana University, and has earned Fellow Manager designation (1of 16 in the U.S.) from the Institute of Career Certification.