Peter James, PhD, PCC

Owner/Founder of HCG Consulting
Certified High-Performance Coach

Dr. Peter A. James is a certified and credentialed executive and leadership coach who focuses on helping executives and businesses transform from high-performing to excellence. Peter offers more than two decades of leadership-laden experience stretching from his service as an officer in the U.S. Army to his role as the Chair of the Business School within a major university and then as an entrepreneur. 

While coaching leaders, Peter is able to draw on his experience as an entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses, as well as his sales and marketing background with a Fortune 100 company. Additionally, he has honed many of his leadership skills as an officer in the U.S. Army for 8+ years. This work required multi-tasking capabilities with a strong ability to lead, plan, prioritize, and manage complex projects under aggressive timelines and conditions, thereby bringing closure to tasks and goals.

Peter’s role as a Faculty Chair at a College of Business as well as serving as a tenured professor has propelled his ability to effectively guide the unwrapping of a leader’s potential to amplify their own performance. He passionately believes that leaders can find their own solutions, set their own goals, and devise their own strategies for the purposes of change; however, having a coach to help manifest (and expedite) these criteria and outcomes is essential.

Through High-Performance Coaching,

Clients are not only able to deepen their learning but also to heighten their performance, enhance their quality of life, and realize their full potential. High-Performance Coaching is grounded in the awareness that all individuals (regardless of demographics) are capable of developing and improving their intellectual, emotional, and creative capacities.

While Peter specializes in leadership development, transformational change, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives for organizations, his passion truly revolves around these shifts that leaders make as a result of executive and leadership coaching. To that end, the “coach-approach” to many of his engagements is evident and helps his clients to realize goals and objectives that may have once been thought of as out of reach. 

Education

Capella University: Organization & Management

University of Phoenix: MBA

Georgia State University: B.S. Psychology

Coaching Credentials/Certifications

International Coaching Federation: Professional Certified Coach (PCC) 

Goleman Emotional Intelligence: Certified Executive Coach 

Goleman Emotional Intelligence: Certified Meta-Coach 

Wiley: DiSC Personality Facilitator & Assessor

Wiley: Five Behaviors Facilitator & Assessor

Korn Ferry: Emotional & Social Competency Index 

MHS: EQ-I & EQ-360 Facilitator & Assessor

Northwestern University: Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Royal Roads University: Professional Mentor Coach

Harrison Assessments Intl: Harrison Personality Assessment

Integral Development: Integral 360 I HELP Assessor

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