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Professional Path
With over 40 years of sales, marketing, and management experience in corporate America and as a small business owner, Peter has a broad and deep understanding of personal and professional development. His approach to education is based on the principles of continuous learning, ‘wisdom in the room’, and engagement. He has the unique ability to empathize, connect and synergize with classroom participants and clients so that they are inspired to contribute, develop clarity around goals and then engage in participation, contribution and commitment to the self-selected action steps.
Peter has a rich and varied professional history. The first eleven years of his career were spent utilizing his Mechanical Engineering degree at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in domestic and international sales. After earning a Masters in Sports Administration, Peter served for four years as the Athletic Foundation Director at UNC Charlotte. For the past 25 years, Peter has built a successful career in Charlotte residential real estate. Currently, he is an instructor/facilitator with Extended Academic Program at UNC Charlotte, an executive coach with a focus on executive presence and presentation skills, owner of one of the Fastest Growing Franchises - Keller Williams Realty in Fort Mill, and an inspirational keynote speaker.
Personal Journey
Having been born in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and having lived in Caracas, Venezuela for 4 years, Peter is trilingual and appreciates the value of diversity of thoughts, experiences and approaches to life. He is an avid pickleball, racquetball and badminton player with National Senior Games Gold Medals in all three sports. He is a former state tennis champion and member of the Case Western Reserve University Athletic Hall of Fame. He loves to read, study and learn – continuously. He has been happily married for over 35 years to Virginia Popovich, 20-year veteran in residential real estate in Charlotte. They have a 31-year-old daughter, Natalie, an English teacher in Guilford County Schools. Life is good!
Pickled Facts (Preservable)
Rather than judging others by their behaviors and yourself by your intentions, start judging others by their intentions and yourself by your behavior.
Eliminate the word ‘fear’ from your vocabulary and replace it with the word ‘curiosity’. Rather than being afraid of snakes, learn about them and the fear will dissipate. You will be moving from an emotional reaction to a logical and ‘motional’ one.
Remove the word ‘feedback’ and replace it with ‘feedforward’. Why? If you are giving or receiving advice, make sure that it has an actionable response. What can you or the other person ‘do’ to move forward? Otherwise, please keep your thoughts to yourself - providing no solutions or options or suggestions is worthless - worth less than when you offer a path forward!