About

The Leadership Challenge

The Leadership Challenge aims to develop  personal leadership capacity.

Examine your self-perception of leadership abilities alongside your colleagues’ perception of their leadership abilities.

Explore the practice of leading change in a self- diagnosed leadership challenge.


Pete Jeans

Advisor. Mentor. Educator. Author. Project leader. Speaker. Writer.

Pete Jeans is a Director at growth project leader – SMO; facilitator and assessor at the Australian Institute of Management  MBA School of Business;  and sessional lecturer in Asia Pacific Business, Human Resources Management and The Leadership Challenge at CSU  and online.

Pete  has a successful background as a senior lead-team manager  in multi-nationals and Australian private and public sector organisations; contributing significantly to increased profitable growth.

In 1992, he founded SMO Sydney as a pioneer in outsourcing of strategic growth services.

  • Director at SMO Sydney since 1992
  • Sessional lecturer at CSU  and online
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Management  MBA Business School  Facilitator Team
  • Contributor to Industry Update Magazine – Australia’s largest circulation manufacturing magazine
  • Accredited contributor to CEO Magazine – a monthly business magazine for CEOs and executives around the world
  • Author of “The Art of Strategic Marketing War – Pearls of Wardom” (2018 plan publish date) – a new book for Gen “X” and Gen “Y”, HR professionals and “C” Suite leaders  around management and leadership shortcuts and insights for their career  development and growth
  • Former member of the NSW Council of the Australian Marketing Institute. (two terms)
  • Former member of the National Committee of the “NSW Housing Industry Association – National Kitchen & Bathroom Association.”
  • Former Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Former Sessional  lecturer at the Western Sydney University.
  • B.A. Communications M.C.A.E ( now CSU at Bathurst ).
  • Masters in Commerce ( Marketing ) UNSW.
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