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Pete Tosh

Founder, The Focus Group

Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:

Implementing Strategic HR Initiatives: Executive Search, Conducting HR Department Audits, Enhancing Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection Processes, Installing Performance Management Programs, Conducting Training Needs Assessments, Installing HR Metrics, etc.

Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness: Facilitating Team Building Initiatives, Designing and Facilitating 360 Performance Assessments, Executive Coaching, Measuring and Enhancing Employee Engagement and Performance, etc.

Strategic Planning: Facilitating Strategic Planning Events, Establishing Succession Plans, Installing Business Performance Metrics, etc.

Enhancing Customer Loyalty: Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Facilitating Customer Advisory Councils, Developing Standards of Performance and Scripts for Key Customer Touch Points, etc.

The Focus Group has provided these consulting and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Pete has worked closely with the leadership teams of organizations such as Exxon, Brinks, EMC, State Farm, Marriott, N.C.I. YKK and Freddie Mac to :

• Align corporate organizational structures with their strategic initiatives - while insuring value creation for their customer bases.

• Ascertain customers’ primary needs and perceptions of organizations’ performance relative to that of their competitors.

• Develop and implement customer loyalty enhancement processes - based on specific customer feedback - that delivered sustainable advantages in the marketplace.

• Implement performance management programs, executive coaching, compensation systems and other HR processes to strategically direct and reward desired employee behavior.

Prior to founding his own firm 25 years ago, Pete had 15 years of experience -at the plant, divisional and corporate levels - in Human Resource and Quality functions. Pete held leadership positions - to include the V.P. of Human Resources and Quality - with Allied Signal, Imperial Chemical Industries, Reynolds Metals, Charter Medical and Access Integrated Networks.

Pete also frequently develops and facilitates a variety of leadership development programs including: Strategic Planning, Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader, Strategic HR Management, The Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection, Employment Law and Utilizing HR Metrics. Employees from over 3,000 organizations have benefited from Pete’s experience and perspective. Pete is co-author of Leading Your Organization to the Next Level: the Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth.

Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry College and Masters degrees in both Business Administration and Industrial Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.



  •  Thursday, December 12, 2024
  • 08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST,
  • 60 Minutes
  • $110.00
Improving Employee Retention & Engagement Through Stay Interviews

Stay interviews are an important means of re-recruiting your workforce - because what attracted your employees is often different from what will keep them

  •  Thursday, January 9, 2025
  • 08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST,
  • 90 Minutes
  • $110.00
Utilizing HR Metrics to Illustrate & Improve Human Resource's Contribution

Human Resource Departments have traditionally been concerned with the processing of transactions and administrative functions - often with little or no objective data to provide them feedback on:

  •  Thursday, January 16, 2025
  • 08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST,
  • 60 Minutes
  • $110.00
Succession Plan for 2025: It's Not Just for Emergencies - It's a Leadership Development Strategy

Fortune 500 companies and small family businesses alike share a business need - ensuring that they have the talent necessary to effectively lead their organizations in the future.

  •  Thursday, February 13, 2025
  • 08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST,
  • 60 Minutes
  • $110.00
Managing Your Inevitable Workplace Conflicts

Interpersonal conflict occurs daily when





  • Recorded
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  • $150.00
Strategic Interviewing & Selection: Getting the Right Talent on Your Team

Few managers would disagree with the idea that their Recruiting, Interviewing and Selection process significantly impacts all aspects of their organization’s performance - including its profitability.

  • Recorded
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  • 90 Minutes
  • $150.00
Utilizing HR Metrics to Illustrate & Improve Human Resource's Contribution

Human Resource Departments have traditionally been concerned with the processing of transactions and administrative functions

  • Recorded
  • View Anytime
  • 60 Minutes
  • $150.00
Managing Toxic & Other Employees Who have Attitude Issues

Managers sometimes attempt to fix this type of problem by addressing a toxic employee's attitude.

  • Recorded
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  • 60 Minutes
  • $150.00
Implementing an Effective Succession Plan

Fortune 500 companies and small family businesses alike share a business need - insuring that they have the talent necessary to effectively lead their organizations in the future.