Peter Noteboom
Owner, Senior Partner & Director of Finance
In brief
Peter Noteboom has served in several roles at GLP: President and Managing Director, now Director of Finance. A believer in a better world, his life’s work has been to facilitate and deepen personal learning and growth, strengthen and encourage communities and groups to achieve their mission, and build peace one step, one relationship at a time.
Thanks to his extensive experience Peter is comfortable and effective in a wide variety of settings, cultures and organizational contexts. Participants in his programs often remark about his calm demeanour, quiet confidence and robust engagement in the questions and issues that arise. He excels at networking.
Some recent projects
Partners in NGO Excellence, Jordan Civil Society Project (www.csp-jordan.org) A consulting project designed to raise the quality standard of the 50 top trainers in the leading civil society organizations in Jordan. Through an intensive process of assessment, substantial learning sessions, mentoring, and coaching on learning design, facilitation and evaluation, successful participants completed all the requirements to become Certified Dialogue Education Practitioners (CDEPs). All in Arabic.
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa (www.idrc.ca) Consulting project designed to assist the planning committee of the 2011 all-staff Annual Learning Forum of the International Development Research Centre on Communicating Research for Influence. The project offered a short training for the session presenters, coaching one-on-one with each of the presenters and facilitators to provide guidance in the design of their event, facilitating the overall event in French and English, and designing the debriefing and evaluation meeting.
FHI360 Fanta (www.fhi360.org) Consulting project designed to provide personal feedback to individual trainers based on observation of their performance. Together we redesigned a 5-day workshop on monitoring food and nutrition technical assistance for service providers in Africa. The project benefited from feedback and suggestions to improve each section of the workshop, the facilitation skills of each member of the training team, and recommendations for further strengthening the training design, delivery skills, and techniques.
A few clients
- International Budget Partnership
- World Vision Canada
- Canadian Red Cross
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- C-Change: Communication for Change, AED
Peter’s education
Post-Graduate Diploma, Dialogue & Negotiation
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Post-Graduate Ph.D. Studies, Political Theory
Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada
M.A., European Studies
Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
B.A., Business Administration, Philosophy
Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, USA
When Peter is not working
Peter is active in several faith-based peacebuilding, environmental and social justice organizations. Together with his life partner, Jeanette Romkema, he enjoys history, exploring, reading and spending time with their two teenage sons.
Languages
English, French, Chinese, Dutch.
