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William G. Pietersen & Peter Meola

Teaches at Columbia Business School

William G. Pietersen, Faculty Director
Professor of the Practice of Management
Faculty Member, Executive Education

Willie Pietersen specializes in strategy and the leadership of change. He is the originator of the Strategic Learning Process which, along with his other methods and ideas, is widely applied in numerous corporations. Over a period of twenty years, Pietersen served as the CEO of multibillion-dollar businesses such as Lever Foods, Seagram USA, Tropicana, and Sterling Winthrop’s Consumer Health Group. He has since served as a teacher and advisor to many global companies, including Aviva, Bausch & Lomb, Boeing, Chubb Corp., Deloitte, DePuy, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Henry Schein, Inc., Novartis, SAP, and Girl Scouts of the USA.
Pietersen has written several books on strategy, the latest being Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). He has also written numerous articles which can be downloaded at www.williepietersen.com.
Pietersen was raised in South Africa and received a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. After practicing law, he embarked on an international business career. In 1998, he was named Professor of the Practice of Management at Columbia Business School.
 
Peter Meola, Curriculum Specialist
Faculty Member, Executive Education

Peter Meola has held a variety of senior executive roles in several global firms over 25 years, including Unilever, Lehn and Fink, The Seagram Company, Tropicana, Burmah Castrol, and ExxonMobil. Peter was a group executive at BP PLC (British Petroleum) and CEO of their Americas Lubricant Division, where he led a cross-cultural and cross-functional employee base with operations in more than 20 countries. Peter was an executive member of the Global Integration Team and the lead executive in the Americas following BP PLC’s successful acquisition and integration of Burmah Castrol.
Meola has consulted for a number of firms, including Welch’s, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Henry Schein, CNA Insurance, IntraLinks, Chubb Insurance, UGI, Riverside Healthcare System, United Nations Federal Credit Union, and many more.
Since joining the Columbia Business School faculty, Meola’s primary areas of focus and passion have been leadership of organizational culture as well as Strategic Learning as a leadership process. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of St John’s Riverside Hospital, visiting lecturer at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, industry advisor for JPMorgan Chase Primary Insight & Alpha Insights, and founder of Meola Associates LLC, a strategic and organizational development advising and consulting firm.

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