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Duke Corporate Education
310 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701
USA

Pete Gerend

Managing Director

As Managing Director at the world’s No. 1 provider of executive education, Pete works with clients to connect the capacity of their people to the promise of their strategy. He is also Visiting Professor at Duke University, where he teaches in the Psychology & Neuroscience Department and the Management & Markets program.

Fundamentally, Pete works with clients to identify and uncover the organizational capabilities they need to build in order to execute their strategy. This work involves both consulting with executives to envision the role people play in strategy execution and designing corporate interventions that embed the knowledge, the skills and the perspective required to improve organizational performance. As a part of that work he’s partnered with numerous multi-national clients to build globally consistent leadership curricula across all levels of management from the front line to the c-suite. In one recent example, Pete and his team developed a diagnostic process to indentify what’s required for a global financial services firm to build the capability of high performance. That process led to the creation of an organization specific leadership model and a set of aligned activities across the business that increased alignment and to improved execution as the firm expanded their business into new markets.

Pete is a teacher at heart. His experience teaching leadership, strategy translation, and team effectiveness has given him an opportunity to work with Fortune Global 200 companies across the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. His recent clients include Microsoft, Rolls-Royce PLC, Credit-Suisse, the Federal Reserve System, and Boehringer Ingelheim.

While working with clients has always been an important focus, Pete also knows firsthand the challenges leaders face running their business. In that role he helped develop and implement new systems to improve transparency and to drive the allocation of key resources to improve efficiency across the global business. 

Before coming to Duke CE, Pete consulted and developed novel healthcare programs for the uninsured at the Hudson Institute. His work across a variety of sectors has given him a deep insight into the ways in which the regulatory environment, technical challenges and business pressure combine to push organizations to seek solutions in their people.

Pete holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a degree in Chemistry and Political Science from Butler University.