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Pete Holliday
Author · Co-founder and COO

Pete Holliday

GradCert, Adult Development and Human Complexity (Lectica and Harvard)

Co-founder and COO of EthosOne. A master executive coach who spent a decade advising listed companies through transformation, now working with principals and boards on how governance actually lands in a school.

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Bio

Pete is a master executive coach who spent the last decade as a transformation adviser to ASX and S&P listed companies. He studied organisational psychology, with postgraduate qualifications in adult development and human complexity (Lectica and Harvard).

In education he has led leadership development for system leaders and education directors, and now focuses on the impact of AI on the complex human environment of schools.

Works with

  • School boards

    Chairs and directors who would like to see the position, the exceptions and the few decisions that are genuinely theirs.

    For school boards

  • Board and risk advisory

    Consulting that lifts the calibre of a school's governance, risk practice and board reporting; Pete leads the work with boards and principals.

    Board and risk advisory

  • The AI governance day

    A whole-school conversation on where AI touches duty of care, privacy and compliance, run with Dave Yeates.

    Start with your board

  • Principals and business managers

    The executives who report to the board and carry the registers between meetings.

    For school executives

Schools and systems Pete and Dave have worked with

  • Department for Education, South Australia
  • Blackfriars Priory School
  • King's Baptist Grammar School
  • Investigator College
  • Donvale Christian College
  • Maranatha Christian School
  • Australian Islamic College of Sydney
  • Norwood International High School

Advisory, leadership and transformation work by EthosOne's co-founders. Not every organisation shown is an EthosOne customer.

Work with Pete

Lead your executive team through complexity and change, with a coach who has done it at listed-company scale.

Pete leads EthosOne's Executive Leadership Uplift: a ten-to-fourteen-week programme that diagnoses the team, sets its operating rhythm, role charters and scorecard, and runs leadership workshops and facilitated executive meetings through the first term, with one-to-one coaching where it helps. It runs with or without an EthosOne licence.

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Writing

Everything he has written for EthosOne, newest first.