Peter Saxon
Trainer & Assessor
Brunswick Heads
Summary
Vocational Education Trainer | Business Services | Leadership & Communication Specialist
Dynamic trainer with 10+ years of experience delivering high-impact face-to-face and online workshops across government, corporate, and community sectors. Holds Cert IV in Training & Assessment and Cert IV in Business. Experienced in designing contextualised assessments, engaging diverse student cohorts, and maintaining VET currency. Passionate about adult learning and committed to delivering nationally recognised qualifications with excellence.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Training Facilitator
Australian Insitute Of Management
06.2023 - Current
- Deliver face-to-face and online leadership and business programs including topics aligned to BSB40120, BSB50420, and BSB50120 (Marketing, Leadership, Business).
- Participate in curriculum contextualisation and training plan development tailored to workplace needs.
- High client retention and engagement evidenced through repeat business and workshop success metrics.
- Training leaders and managers in multiple industries in person and online in all aspects of leadership and management within the workplace.
- Design bespoke one- to three-day workshops for medium to large organisations.
Principal | Facilitator | Coach
Business Within
01.2015 - Current
- Facilitate tailored business and communication workshops with relevance to Cert IV/Diploma of Business, Project Management, and Leadership.
- Employing adult education principles and client-focused program design.
- Manage team of subcontractors, ensuring high quality delivery, assessment validation, and student engagement.
- Design and delivery of over one hundred experiential and training workshops, in person and on Zoom/MS Teams, to small to medium enterprises to large enterprise businesses for past 10 years.
- Proven record of successfully developing two enterprises over a three-year retainment of services (from 2020 to 2023) with proven increased performance capacity and organisational cultural transformation. By focusing on psychological safety and communication. This was the result of being highly self motivated learner with a passion for keeping my expertise through research and knowledge at a high level, project management and being highly prepared to best support my clients in workshops and training.
- Liaise with clients using metrics and anecdotal feedback on each learning session to debrief and ascertain what improvements to suit each clients needs.
- Working with sub-contractor facilitators in productive, cooperative and respectful manner.
Facilitator
Path Retreats
01.2013 - 01.2024
- Facilitation of international seven-day personal development process that operates in 16 countries, spoken in 5 languages for past 26 years.
- Highly developed presence and capacity to be with any challenges and issues in an experiential group work setting to support participant empowerment.
- Highly experienced in experiential group work with diverse cohort ranging from single parents, yoga teachers, CEO's, elite athletes, military personal, police officers, doctors and a variety of other professions.
- Collaborating and working closely with colleagues to consistently build strong relationships and support successful deliveries, while being mindful of anticipating future developments and contributing to new initiatives.
Associate Director
Integrity and Values
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Business development; I secured multiple new accounts with medium enterprise clients, generating income exceeding any previous employee in their first year
- Coaching CEO's and facilitating experiential workshops with executive teams
- Operation of in-house LMS
- Administering psychometric profiling tools
- Design and facilitation of experiential workshops for CEO's and executive teams
- Research and contribution of content for public speaking events
Training Facilitator and Designer
Prime Practice
10.2017 - 10.2018
- Employing adult education principles, using learning management systems (some Canvas familiarity).
- Design and facilitate leadership and team development workshops and client-focused e- learning online training programs.
- Design and delivery as lead facilitator of over 45 workshops in 12 months in every capital of Australia and New Zealand, plus regional areas.
- Working with groups from 16 to 140 participants, being present with challenging behaviours, managing ambiguity and creating insights to facilitate sustainable behaviour change.
- Within 6 months of employment, CEO requested to design and deliver in- house 'Coaches Retreat' to optimize overall health of company.
- Redesigned all existing leadership and team development workshops.
- Saved company costs and generated revenue by advising and co- designing e-learning content to create live online training seminars
- Collected data on program efficacy through data analysis and implemented solutions for improvement
Lead Facilitator
Centacare
01.2016 - 09.2017
- Facilitation of male perpetrators of domestic violence programs working with highly confrontational and challenging cohort that increased facilitation presence.
- Designed and facilitated of 10-week emotional intelligence program for men.
- Trained co-facilitators in 10-week emotional intelligence program for men.
- Individual counseling and coaching.
- Collected data on program efficacy through data analysis and implemented solutions for improvement.
- Facilitated dialogue between participants, family and program workers to provide best possible program and individualized program.
Facilitator
Performance Frontiers
02.2015 - 12.2015
- Research, co-design and co-delivery for leadership development and organizational change for medium business, local and state government organizations
- Assisted in securing the Queensland Government Health Department account. Generated revenue, by building relationships and creating opportunity to submit successful proposal
Counsellor
Private Practice
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Counsellor in private practice treating predominantly men covering a wide range of issues, however specialising in attachment trauma and relationship issues.
- Facilitate monthly men's support groups focusing on relational presence, intimacy, integrity, responsibility and communication.
- Maintain private practice of approximately five to fifteen sessions per week
- Design and delivery or group facilitation with individuals and community organizations covering range of areas for personal development.
- Perform client assessments and develop treatment plans
- Document client progress in confidential files
- Deploy implementation guides for evidence-based interventions
Counsellor
Ridiculously Well Clinic
01.2014 - 12.2015
- Counseling and coaching approximately 10 clients per week in clinical setting covering range of issues with broad spectrum of clients.
Manager
Knight Frank Australia
02.2009 - 01.2012
- Manager of satellite office.
- Account management and negotiating industrial property transactions.
- Demonstrated significant ability to build relationships, secure new and repeat appointments with some of Australia's largest industrial property developer companies, to advise and implement divestment of their assets ranging from $5M to $50M.
- Developed reputation of referral based business through building trust with clients, due to client centered consulting approach
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance
Manager
LJH Commercial
01.2004 - 01.2009
- Managed team of 3 sales people
- Account management and negotiating industrial property transactions
- Top Sales person in Queensland, two years running in writing commissions of $1M per annum
- National award for top 10% salespersons
- Negotiating industrial property transitions between $500,000 to $15M
Education
Masters of Leadership And Management - Organisational Dynamics
National Institute of Organisational Dynamics
Melbourne, VIC 04.2001 -
Certificate IV in Trainer And Assessor - Training And Assessment
GC Training College
Gold Coast 01.2016 - 04.2016
Certificate in Business Level IV - Business
TAFE
Brisbane 01.2004 - 12.2004
Diploma - Coaching And Counselling
Australian College of Applied Psychology
Brisbane 01.2017 - Current
Authorsised MBSR Teacher - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia & N.Z.
Sydney, NSW 01.2022 - 01.2023
Certificate in Profiling - Team Systems Profiling
Team Mangement Systems
Brisbane, QLD 04.2001 -
Leadership Behavours 360 Profiling - Leadership
Team Management Systems
Auckland, New Zealand 04.2001 -
Diploma - Social and Community Services
TAFE
Tasmainia 01.1998 - 01.2000
Year Training in Psychodrama And Sociometry - Facilitation
Psychodrama Australia
Sydney, NSW 01.2019 - 01.2020
Non - Certified Foundational Course - Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing Australia
Brisbane, QLD 01.2015 - 01.2016
Diploma of Attendance - Counselling
Awakening Group
Brisbane 01.2012 - 01.2014
Certificate - Enneagram Personality Profiling
Inernational Enneagram Association
Sydney, NSW 02.2020 - 03.2023
Certificate in Facilitation - Working With Participants
Path Retreats International
Byron Bay, NSW 01.2015 - 12.2015
Certificate in Personal Empowerment - Communications
Effectiveness Training Institute
Brisbane, QLD 01.2013 - 12.2013
Skills
Facilitation and Training
Counselling & Coaching
Research and Design
Business Development & Account Management
Hobbies: Meditation, Hiking & Travelling
Experienced practitioner with 12 years in Zen and Dzogchen meditation practice. Avid nature lover and traveller
Timeline
Training Facilitator
Australian Insitute Of Management
06.2023 - Current
Authorsised MBSR Teacher - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia & N.Z.
01.2022 - 01.2023
Certificate - Enneagram Personality Profiling
Inernational Enneagram Association
02.2020 - 03.2023
Year Training in Psychodrama And Sociometry - Facilitation
Psychodrama Australia
01.2019 - 01.2020
Associate Director
Integrity and Values
01.2018 - 01.2020
Training Facilitator and Designer
Prime Practice
10.2017 - 10.2018
Diploma - Coaching And Counselling
Australian College of Applied Psychology
01.2017 - Current
Certificate IV in Trainer And Assessor - Training And Assessment
GC Training College
01.2016 - 04.2016
Lead Facilitator
Centacare
01.2016 - 09.2017
Facilitator
Performance Frontiers
02.2015 - 12.2015
Principal | Facilitator | Coach
Business Within
01.2015 - Current
Non - Certified Foundational Course - Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing Australia
01.2015 - 01.2016
Certificate in Facilitation - Working With Participants
Path Retreats International
01.2015 - 12.2015
Counsellor
Private Practice
01.2014 - 01.2017
Counsellor
Ridiculously Well Clinic
01.2014 - 12.2015
Facilitator
Path Retreats
01.2013 - 01.2024
Certificate in Personal Empowerment - Communications
Effectiveness Training Institute
01.2013 - 12.2013
Diploma of Attendance - Counselling
Awakening Group
01.2012 - 01.2014
Manager
Knight Frank Australia
02.2009 - 01.2012
Manager
LJH Commercial
01.2004 - 01.2009
Certificate in Business Level IV - Business
TAFE
01.2004 - 12.2004
Masters of Leadership And Management - Organisational Dynamics
National Institute of Organisational Dynamics
04.2001 -
Certificate in Profiling - Team Systems Profiling
Team Mangement Systems
04.2001 -
Leadership Behavours 360 Profiling - Leadership
Team Management Systems
04.2001 -
Diploma - Social and Community Services
TAFE
01.1998 - 01.2000
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