Petter Bakken

Learning & Development Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Course Developer, Senior International Manager, ITC industry professional. Petter’s competence areas include education development and delivery, coaching, workshop facilitation, communication and press management, marketing and sales and project management.

The essence of Petter’s work-experience has been training leaders at different levels in Europe. He has helped leaders to gaindeeper insights into themselves, to move on to higher levels of performance and to achieve better results. Petter has extensive experience in working for governmental departments, for local authorities and for private companies. He spent 29 years at Hewlett-Packard in Norway and internationally involved with support/service, management, product management, market responsibility, sales, press contact and conferences.

Petter has received 10 years of Leadership and sales-related training in Europe, including at the Executive Level, and also experience with a variety of virtual delivery tools and also spent 4 years coaching of Leaders in every part of Europe. His goal is to always deliver high quality work and he is energised by responsibility and by new learning.

Petter has solid experience and sound competency for facilitating meetings/trainings in virtual classrooms with up to 15 participants. In his role as the Learning Manager at Hewlett-Packard International Petter coached potential Leaders at HP Europe in Leadership programmes. He gave courses and provided consulting in the areas of management/leadership, sales, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, teambuilding, planning, communication, change-management and presentation. He also implemented more than 300 hours of talent/leader/executive coaching and over 300 hours of PDI 360% coaching.

While training leaders in EMEA Petter was also responsible for workforce development in Sweden, Finland and the Baltic region. He provided consultancy to Business Managers and HR managers on workforce development offer and business needs.

Petter facilitated different Leadership trainings in the EMEA Region, including coaching Leaders at HP, delivering different trainings related to the HP merger with Compaq. He also delivered several Strategy, Value, Change Management and Process trainings in regard to the outsourcing deals with Nokia and Ericsson.

Most recently Petter has been developing and delivering courses and facilitating processes with several customers across Europe, including Nordea Markets, DNB , Xellia in Norway and Denmark, Kommuneforlaget, TEKNA, Hewlett-Packard Europe, Creuna, Mercuri International, Telenor, Intergraph and the Norwegian National Police Directorate.