Peter Thurin

Peter Thurin is the founder of blackbelt in excellence and has been empowering thousands of people from all parts of the world for over a dozen years. He is a dynamic, inspirational and professional speaker, program presenter, facilitator and mentor. He is an author and international business consultant.

Peter is a powerful catalyst for business growth, with his relentless focus on the choices we need to make, commitment, and a passionately desired end result. He demonstrates a rare ability to combine his insight, skills and experience to understand your business and work with your people to significantly impact on your bottom line.

Peter's focus on people excellence has been a major factor in the remarkable results achieved by many of the companies he has worked with. You will have great clarity as to the strategy required to deliver on-going, consistent business excellence.

He has been in business for many years owning and operating a number of successful pharmacies, represented Australia twice internationally in tennis, coached Australian Rules Football, and is a third Dan black belt in the martial art of taekwondo.

Keynote
This is a fun, interactive session that uses martial arts as a practical method of presenting and reinforcing the key success messages that are most important to your organisation.The session demonstrates that having fun and being successful can and do go hand in hand. Martial Arts is used as a visual and interactive tool to reinforce your key messages.

The keynote contains all the key messages that you want your delegates to take away with them. Finally, these messages are reinforced by the uplifting and energising "board breaking" exercise that demonstrates a willingness to take action and proves each of us is capable of great achievement - provided we have the will to succeed.

By using the analogy of the martial arts system, where acquiring each successive "belt" is a tangible way to see your goals come to fruition, this session provides a practical way to illustrate a number of key messages about the way teams and organisations can best work together towards success, including:

Being consistent

Developing the right mental attitude

Working together

Giving feedback and praise

Not taking others for granted

Focusing on solutions, not problems

Focusing on opportunities, not difficulties

Starting with what you can do

Having a game plan

Continual improvement

Creating positive and sustainable change

 

Peter inspires and empowers people, through encouragement and support, to be the best they can be, one belt at a time.  He works to instil a success-oriented mindset in your people that will create positive, sustainable, and measurable change in your business.

Peter specialises in:

Business Keynote and Motivational Speaker.
Master of Ceremonies and Conference / Workshop Facilitator.
Business Team Building including Martial Arts Workshops.
Business Coach and Mentor.

Client Ovations: Thank you for the fantastic program that you put together for our leadership forum. Feedback from the sessions that you ran was absolutely tremendous. Both the content of the sessions and the mode of delivery was first rate and I have no doubt that the messages you conveyed really resonated with our team. I also really appreciate the time you took to understand our business and integrate these learnings into your sessions.

Chief Executive Officer, SEEK

I just wanted to thank you once again for the fantastic conference and for what your presentation - its message, enthusiasm, fun and professionalism - has meant to my people and myself as we embark on a new year.

Executive General Manager, Flight Centre E-Commerce

Pete, a huge thank you for yesterday's session. I thought it was absolutely incredible. The messages were very powerful but just as importantly they were delivered with tremendous energy and conviction. I have really enjoyed working with you.

CEO & Co-Founder, SEEK

I don't think words can explain the effect that Peter had on the delegates and the experience at our national conference. I do honestly believe it was life changing for many of them and they were all very affected by it.

Director, Wizard Home Loans