Peter is a graduate with a BSc. Mechanical Engineering, MSc.
Entrepreneurship (both from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) and a Doctor of Ministry in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation from the Africa International University (AIU).
The title of his dissertation is “Biblical Principles for Shalom in African Family Businesses”. He has attained the Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM), the highest award given by Toastmasters International.
Peter is a trainer for the Female Future Program Rhetoric Module, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Association for Family Business Enterprises, Kenya, Vice President, Membership of the NBA Toastmasters Club, Nakuru and Secretary-General of the Doctoral Association of Eastern Africa (DAEA).
Peter previously served as Chair of the Executive Leadership Network (ELNET) Business Leaders Forum, Area Director Toastmasters International, President of the Nairobi Toastmasters Club, Coach of the K-Toastmasters Club, Sponsor/Mentor of several Toastmasters Clubs in Kenya, and as the Head of Programs at the International Leadership Foundation (Kenya) in addition to sitting on a number of non-profit organization boards. Peter has also served as a Sunday School teacher at the Nairobi
Chapel for more than 20 years.
Before selection as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in 2009, Peter was a business development consultant in Kenya after which he returned to focus on family business leadership, communication and
succession management.
Peter used writing skills acquired / practiced before and during the Humphrey Program to contribute articles on family business in the Business Daily, Kenya’s only national business newspaper for which
he was a long-standing columnist. He has published books on family business.
Peter has been involved in a number of organizational membership building / management initiatives and is convinced that leadership skills can be acquired and built on by those individuals who are
determined to change their environments and, more important, the circumstances of those who look up to them for direction.
Peter believes that excellent leadership, while extremely challenging and demanding of self-sacrifice, has rich rewards for leaders and the people who follow them.
Peter is married to his lovely wife Mwende with whom they have two sons and an adopted daughter.
