Peter Roper
Peter Roper is a family business specialist with over 45 years of experience in both owning and helping family businesses. Peter aka “The Family Businessman” offers facilitated training and development programmes for both family businesses and organisations who wish to create long-term, substantial, and effective relationships with family businesses. Following a major and highly successful corporate career (where he was responsible for a business that turned over no less than £38 million), he threw caution to the wind and set up his own consultancy business in 1996. Since then, he has had six family businesses of his own and has helped literally thousands of family businesses. Peter founded the Family Business Practice in 2015 which is a member-driven, encouraging, supportive, educational, vibrant, and proactive community of family businesses providing well over one hundred online and offline events a year. In a 27-year multi-award-winning speaking career Peter has spoken to well over 500,000 delegates. As a Past National President, Fellow, and board member of the Professional Speaking Association UK&I, Peter was given the Professional Speaking Award for Excellence in 2018 – only a handful of people hold this prestigious accolade. Peter is the author of six books including the best seller “…And Death Came Third!” the highly acclaimed “It’s a Family Business” and most recently “The Reputation Gap”.
