Holtmann Professional Services

08/05/2024

Good news; I have been invited to speak at the international Conference on Shopping Centre and Mall Management; Ankara, Türkiye, November 11-13 2024.

Welcome to the International Conference on Shopping Centre & Mall Management. Our conference is designed for shopping centers, mall management companies, and service providers in this field. Join us in November 2024 in Antalya, Türkiye for a unique opportunity to connect, learn, and grow your busin...

11/08/2023

What a busy week of media work! Podcasts and webinars all week, culminating in an interview today with Ali Flynn of Tri Altitude Perfomance.
Today we are discussing what it was like for me to leave a high pressure, high performing role as CEO.
Recording will be available after the session.

06/07/2023

This weekend I am podcasting with a great friend and fellow expert in food safety leadership Bryan Armentrout from The Food Leadership Group.
Here are some points we will cover in our chat:
Topic: Food Safety and Compliance – What Happens When the System is Stressed?

1. Tell us a little bit more about your background and what you are up to
a. – you’re also a Justice of the Peace?
b. What areas have you been focusing on?

2. You are out there in the real world, visiting clients and seeing what is really going on, what are you seeing?

3. What happens to systems when they are stressed?
a. Is the referee on the field?
b. What happened during Covid?
i. Survival versus following the rules
ii. Compliance is not a sustainable act
iii. Food fraud (Chinese pet food example)
iv. Ingredient substitution/ JIT failures and Toilet Paper (scarcity mentality)

4. How are audits failing us?
a. Compliance and checking the box
i. You get what you measure – so be very careful what you choose
b. Designed to only see what is going wrong, never what is going right
c. Auditors never focus on best practices and knowledge transfer (that’s why you are here)
d. If the rules are not being following, how do more rules make it better?
i. FDA/ GFSI
ii. Auditor calibration
e. Reports are always after the fact – what are you doing to prevent issues?

5. I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like…
a. Food Safety Culture is easy to see, hard to duplicate
i. Supervisor/ Team interaction is key
b. Can they “push the red button?”
c. Would you feed this to your grandchildren?
d. Training and “management by exception”

6. Great, what do we actually do about this?
a. Food Safety is not food compliance
b. Food Safety behavior and who can push the button
i. Conversations with customers and consumers
ii. Should personnel practices be a CCP?
iii. People make product, not machines
c. Find strengths, not faults and build upon them

Please do come along for a listen; follow the link

18/11/2022

I wrote this out 5 years ago and I still firmly believe in it.

25/10/2022

Today we are in Sydney conducting a crisis simulation for a key partner. Cyber attack resilience testing.

25/10/2022

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Please come visit my new venture, professional speaking.

11/10/2022

https://youtu.be/251B0dR1f1c

Peter Holtmann is a dynamic and engaging public speaker and MC, watch here for an introduction.

11/07/2022

I have been selected as a judge for the International Best Practice Competition.

Dr Ayed is Quality & Business Excellence consultant and academician member of International Academy for Quality (IQA). He led the technical team who developed Saudi Arabia National Quality Strategy that developed by Saudi Standards and Quality Org.(SASO). He participated in establishing, managing, a...