Peter Forday’s hands-on approach to community service, creating welcome and belonging and to nurturing leaders, make him a prominent figure in consulting and social services.
His consultancy, drawing on a career of four decades, offers leadership coaching, strategic facilitation, and stakeholder engagement. His portfolio is diverse and recent examples include the Department of Justice and Attorney General, the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma, Carers Queensland and the Western Queensland Primary Health Network.
Peter holds directorships with a number of nonprofits including Multicultural Australia, Mental Health Lived Experience Peak, Queensland and YFS Logan. Additionally, his community and government advisories, highlight his dedication to systemic and transformational change for the greater good. Recently, Peter advised the Queensland Human Rights Commission, for their diversity and inclusion review of the Queensland Police.
Peter is an Industry Fellow with Griffith University. He gained a Premier’s Scholarship for the inaugural Harvard based Queensland Leadership Program. He is an alumnus of the Executive Challenge Academy, where he became a Senior Associate coordinating intensive leadership programs and delivered in Brisbane, the Hague, London and Houston.
Peers and clients appreciate Peter’s relational approach that is personable, calm, respectful and best described as a series of guided conversations that help people focus on what matters.
Peter feels fortunate to have landed the right balance of his commitments to his community roles, his consultancy clients, and to being a loving father and partner and primary carer for an elderly parent with dementia.
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