Peter Meyer Founder and Principal, The Meyer Group As a founder and principal of The Meyer Group, Peter Meyer brings a strong management and general management background to any keynote or talk. In addition to his own experience he conducts ongoing, targeted research in management and strategy among company owners and officers across the United States. Many of the details in his speeches and manuscripts come from this work. Peter has over a decade and a half of successful experience as a manager and problem solver for two of the largest communications and technology companies in the world and one of the smallest. As a manager of sales, instruction, development, and as a general manager of a separate "intrapreneurial" business, he has sampled and succeeded in a variety of business functions. A popular and accomplished speaker, he has done speaking tours on management, technology, and strategies throughout the United States, in Europe, the Far East, and Australia. He has also twice addressed the Commonwealth Club of California, guest lectured at the University of California and at Santa Clara University. Some of the companies that he has addressed are listed in the attachment. Peter is regularly published in business journals. In the past few months he already has recent articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Canadian Business Review, Business Horizons, Dateline, the Internet Business Journal, Executive Female, and The Recorder as well as a profile of him in Entrepreneur. He was recently named the contributing editor for technology for the Business & Economic Review. For a complete list or clips, please feel free to call Capitol Speakers. Based in Scotts Valley, Ca., The Meyer Group specializes in executive and management development. A FEW AUDIENCES THAT PETER MEYER HAS SPOKEN TO: … FINANCE AND MANUFACTURING Wells Fargo Bank Bank Of America Charles Schwab and Company IBM (in the US and Australia) Siemens Mitsubishi (in Tokyo and the US) Omron (in Tokyo) Dow Chemical Shell Oil Gerber Foods Lockheed Corporation Lockheed California Company Chrysler Alcatel Pacific Western Bank George Fischer GF In-Focus Systems … TECHNOLOGY Fujitsu America StrataCom Aspect Telecommunications Tandem Computers ROLM Compression Labs Incorporated Digital Equipment/TER Samsung (in Seoul) Chevron Research and Technology Cabletron Corning Centigram 3Com Cisco Wall Data … SERVICE The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Korean Air Lines (in Seoul) Southern California Gas Abraham Publishing SHARE The Kaiser Foundation Hong Kong Telephone Company World Wildlife Fund The Sierra Club The Oakland Tribune Target Stores AT&T CICM … GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION State Of California - Dept. of Resources City of Los Angeles The Telecommunications Training Institute (in Taipei) The Government of South Korea Santa Clara University University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz) ACUTA (in Canada and the US) University of Manitoba Pepperdine University Partial Business Publications List - 1992 - 1997 … Executive and Management Articles Promotions Are Not A Reward - Manager's Journal - The Wall Street Journal - May 1, 1995 Why Make Managers? - Business Horizons (The Editor's Chair) - Jan. 1996 Jigsaw Management - Faster and Better Decisions - The Canadian Business Review - Winter 1995-1996 How Much Does That Technology Cost Your Business? - The Business & Economic Review - Oct. 1996 What Keeps the CEO Up at Night? - Business & Economic Review - Sep. 1997 A Surprisingly Simple Way To Make Better Decisions - Executive Female - Mar. 1995 The Jigsaw Management Model - Business & Economic Review - Apr. 1992 How to Make Objectives More Effective - R& D Innovator - Oct. 1995 Jigsaw Management Model Investing - Business & Economic Review - Oct. 1992 Solving Real Problems With Jigsaw Puzzles - The London Observer - Fall, 1996 Peter Meyer Teaches Strategic Planning - ACUTA News - Jun. 1993 Piece De Resistance - profile in Entrepreneur - Feb. 1994 Jigsaw Management: Putting All the Pieces Together - THE Recorder - Apr. 22, 1994 Successful Promotions and the Bucket of Ashes - Business Horizons - May 1994 Rightsizing Your Association - Four Proven Alternatives Every Association Executive Should Know - Dateline - Sep. 1994 Can You Give Good, Inexpensive Rewards? - Some Real Life Answers - Business Horizons - Dec. 1994 Jigsaw Management: Piecing Together Appraisals - Solutions Magazine - Jun. 1995 Effective Incentives - Solutions Magazine - Nov. 1995 Jigsaw Management - A Research Solution - with Dr. Richard Meyer - Business Quest - Jan. 1996 Advising for Better and Faster Decisions - The Bottom Line - Fall, 1996 Betting a Billion at Christmas - A Practical Customer Service Solution - Business Quest - Jan. 1996 … Using the Information SuperHighway for Business Internet Blues - - Business & Economic Review - Apr. 1997 How To Keep Your Company From Becoming Roadkill on the Information Superhighway - Business & Economic Review - Oct. 1994/ Jan. 1995 Take Advantage of the World Wide Web - Business & Economic Review - Oct. 1995 Surviving the Information SuperHighway - Internet Business Journal - Feb. 1995 Take Your Web Page to Your Customers - Business & Economic Review - Apr. 1996 Beyond the Net - Electronic Business that Works - The Business Resource - Sep. 1997 … Marketing Articles Successfully Sell Your Services Over the Internet, with Teresita Dabrieo - Potentials in Marketing - Sep. 1996 Consultants' Barriers to Raising Fees - Your Business - Mar. 1996 Your Customer Wants a Discount? - The Business Review - Summer, 1997 Strategies: Selling Through Seminars - Interview in Sales & Marketing Management - May, 1995 A Simple Way to Make Decisions - Potentials in Marketing - Jun. 1995 Asked for a Discount? Raise Your Price - DM News - Jan. 1996 Using Direct Marketing to Get to Senior Executives - A High Tech Example - DM News - Nov. 1995 How Should I Set My Prices? - with Herman Holtz -Independent - Jul. 1996 … Additional articles scheduled for the near future include: Holding Your Price - a series of articles chartered by and to appear in SalesDoctors from June 1997 through June 1998 Jigsaw Management, Better and Faster Decisions - Media3 - Spring 1998 Will the Killer Application Kill Your Business? - Business & Economic Review - Jan. 1998 So You Want to Be CEO? - Business Horizons, Editor's Chair - Jan 1998 Finding the Funds for Information Technology - Business Communications Review - Spring 1998 back to top some of the players Meet the Team Peter Meyer Pam Ferguson Jeanne Sawyer Paul Gregoire Bill Leads Contact Us
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