Peter Miller-Smith

Peter is an experienced coach, mentor and business adviser. His passion is helping people be the best they can be, and achieve the success they would like both with their businesses and their careers.

Peter had a very successful corporate career with 3M Company, and had the unusual opportunity of moving from finance into sales and marketing, and running businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA.

It was when Peter returned to the UK after 9 years and working with a coach that he had his own ‘lightbulb moment’, and found that the successes he had achieved in his career to date were through his talent for leading and motivating the teams in the businesses he ran. This led him to train as an executive coach. During his career he has also set up and run 3 successful businesses of his own

Peter has been using Myers-Briggs for a number of years as a catalyst for change and helping both individuals and teams understand the value of their differences. In 2016 he became accredited as an Insights practitioner and joined The Colour Works family shortly after., He is passionate about the  enormous value that the Insights Discovery model of behaviour provides. With its ease of access, immediate impact and memorability it really helps clients quickly engage with and understand themselves and their colleagues at a deeper level.

As a coach Peter draws on this business experience and expertise, and combining it with his strong intuition and ability to know when to push and when to leave the client be. He brings commercial flair and acuity, and incisiveness which enable Peter to challenge, plan and support his clients to meet their goals.

Peter is a retired Chair of the Board of Soha Housing.

Peter has a personal philosophy that everyone is unique, everyone has talents and strengths, and when focused on something they love and believe in, are capable of excelling. By helping them to discover this, he will enable those people and their businesses to thrive.

Peter has a number of hobbies which keep him busy outside of his work, photography, classic cars and fly fishing.