Peter Hadwen
Regional Director, Africa and MENA
During his 25-year career Peter Hadwen has demonstrated a conviction that business success and professional satisfaction comes from great persistence in bringing purpose, process and people together to meet client needs. Peter has a depth of expertise across many managerial disciplines important to success in institutional development. He has spend his 20 years facilitating major transformations of processes for grants and contributions, and human resources. His great skill is to apply methodology and tools to facilitate the right solution by management teams:
- Planning and Performance– Translating a view of the future into concrete initiatives that are measurable.
- Transforming Process – Leaning back-office processesto relieve workplace pressures and achieve more cost-effective programming and systems.
- Governance and Oversight – Getting the right management and consultative structures and processes in place (committee mandates, secretariat processes, MOUs and service level agreements) to exercise oversight and used decision models to make decisions on priorities.
- Values, Culture and Change Management – The assessment of impacts on workplace culture and values, must inform every complex change, and detailed change management strategies.
- Alternatives for Delivery – Options and business cases for alternative delivery.
Peter has led many multi-disciplinary teams of consultants in major transformation projects within Canada and overseas. He has a strong international background having worked for clients such as GAC (CIDA), EDC, Canadian Commercial Corporation, and the World Bank, among other international development agencies. He was a Board member and original founder of an international infrastructure advisory firm (CPCS Transcom) which has a very strong historical presence in Africa. He worked and lived in developing countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Bangladesh, Vietnam, to name a few.