Gary Peacock

Head of Research 

Gary Peacock is a specialist in improving and sustaining business performance. Gary improves performance by Business Coaching on implementing effective strategies and change management tactics to influence daily team behaviour.

Gary has over 20 years experience in various capacities, including sales, engineering, production and service. This hands-on experience enables him to understand the challenges of changing the daily behaviours of operations staff and sustaining high-growth businesses.

Having studied Change Management at postgraduate level at the Australian Graduate School of Management, Gary is now a leader in the field. He has implemented successful changes in fast-growing and mature organisations by linking high-level objectives to daily actions, providing practical tools for diagnosis and action, and showing methods for communicating complex information.

Gary has a Masters degree from Cranfield, a leading technology school in the UK and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute Of Management.

One of Gary's specialities is presenting & communicating complex information in simple and interesting ways to diverse audiences from the boardroom to the factory. He is able to solve complex problems with creative and practical solutions.

A good analyst with exceptional negotiation skills, he has regularly been involved in resolving complex commercial disputes with multiple parties including overseas companies.

Persuading for Results 
by Stephen Kozicki and Gary Peacock

When persuading for results, you will need to persuade individuals and to persuade groups. For most high–stakes persuasion, you must persuade a group — a group with diverse people, with diverse interests and with diverse opinions — this book will make you more effective at persuading groups.
We want to help you persuade for results: to become capable of influencing, inspiring and directing behaviour.

Revealed in this book...

• Breakthrough thinking 
for faster preparation
• Using language persuasively

• Effective methods of persuasion
• Persuading with stories
• Buying styles
• Persuading with images
• Influencing executives
• Most common mistakes

Introducing a new way of thinking about persuasion — emphasizing the importance of the audience, focusing on action outcomes, and balancing content and style — we give you a fresh way to persuade for results. If you want to be more effective at persuading for results, you must become a persuasive presenter.