PEACE by Piece: A practical guide to stepping up or starting over in business and in life

Industrial psychologist and award-winning business coach Kathi Hyde and her clients have proven that you can start over or step up, even in hard times, to build a business that achieves the results you deserve, brings out the best in your people, thrives regardless of the economic challenges or markets, and allows you to live life well.

Kathi’s passion to help small businesses succeed to international standards (irrespective of where they find themselves geographically) and her love for the people who start and run them, have helped lead her clients to record success, game-changing personal growth, contentment and real results time and again.

Using vignettes of her own story as a backdrop, Kathi shares with you her proven step-by-step strategies to help you achieve the same results – no matter where you are in your life or business journey.

This book considers both the business owner and the business. Part One prepares you mentally and emotionally to overcome your setbacks and take on the mantle of being a business owner. It also helps you work out the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of starting or growing your business. PartTwo provides the practical business skills and know-how to build a profitable, resilient and rewarding business that delivers.

Based on sound business principles and practices, and packed with wisdom, anecdotes, strategies, practical examples, and the insight and experience gained from Kathi’s more than 30-year involvement with business across a range of industries in developed and developing countries, PEACE by Piece is your coach-come-business-school in a book. Let it help you create peace from the pieces and guide you in laying the foundations of a purpose-driven business that serves you and those you love and serve.

Kathi Hyde has lived and worked in various countries around the world, achieving an impressive list of firsts. She was lecturing at an internationally recognised university at 21 and making board-level business decisions by 26. At 28 she backpacked solo through Africa and Europe. At 31, she tripled the annual turnover of a Danish multinational operating in East Africa, which gave her a first taste of business possibility in difficult circumstances. By 35, she'd achieved notable success in the region, addressing obstacles to private sector development as a business owner and on the Chamber of Mines. Since then, she has had award-winning success on local and international platforms with SME business owners large and small, accompanied by her trademark down-to-earth, practical style; her determination to help others overcome; her substantial knowledge of what makes people tick, and her inimitable sense of humour.Through her expertise, practical wisdom and impact she has helped her clients overcome setbacks in life and go on to achieve outstanding bottom-line growth, even in impossible times; create more space to enjoy their success and families, and ultimately find the financial freedom to pursue what matters.Based between Edinburgh (Scotland), Croston (England) and Cape Town (South Africa), Kathi and her husband Neil live with a collie named Joe and an elderly lab Cherry, while tortoiseshell puss-cat Suki stays in Cape Town watching over her beloved daughter, Bryony.