Peter Hawes has dedicated his career to helping companies and organizations achieve business goals through clear, targeted communication with essential stakeholders. He has more than 25 years of corporate, agency and independent consulting experience in marketing communications, public relations, employee communications, executive speechwriting and book publishing.

After earning a journalism degree from Syracuse University, he worked as a newscaster at several radio stations in New England and then as a correspondent and national writer for The Associated Press. He joined Xerox in 1984 as a public relations manager and soon moved up to become an executive speechwriter and communication adviser to senior management. In that position he provided key articulation of the company's "document company" technical and marketing strategy at the dawn of the digital printing/copying/scanning revolution. He later returned as a consultant to help Xerox position itself in the knowledge management movement.

Peter left Xerox in 1992 to become director of marketing for the Paul Winter Consort and its Living Music Records label, a position in which he was responsible for marketing, distribution, promotion, global licensing, public relations, advertising and sponsorships. He started his own business in 1993 and has since provided communication consulting, writing and editorial services to a diverse collection of corporations, publishers, nonprofits, arts organizations and agencies.

From 2002 to 2010 he also served as editorial director of Greenwich Publishing Group, a publisher of corporate history books. He was the company's primary client liaison and was responsible for book/communication strategy, for managing the editorial and creative processes and providing hands-on developmental and copy editing.

Off duty, Peter is a fine art photographer and a performing and teaching percussionist.