Lisa Peers founded Peers and Players in 1998, in response to a need for a cohesive band of professional corporate actors for role-play and other communications skills training exercises. The global team of experienced professional actors are specialists in role-play, facilitation and coaching for assessment and development programs.
With her background in TV, film and theatre, Lisa has presented numerous training programs, on and off camera. She is an expert in people skills: verbal and non-verbal communication, with extensive experience in role play and coaching,
From its start as a small troupe performing in Australia, the team has grown to more than 400 actors, based around Australia, USA, Sth Amerca, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Dubai, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and more. Peers and Players offer the best corporate actors, chosen for their professional acting credits and business experience.
Overall, the involvement of the actors enhances the credibility of the role plays and improves the learning experience for participants. These L&D programs are among KPMG’s most popular programs and in post course evaluations many participants comment that the inclusion of actors is highly beneficial in creating a ‘real life’ feeling to the exercises.
Learning and Development, Human Resources Manager
Lisa and her band of actors are brilliant. Starts with great service. Then they create the right actors for the right situation. And then they deliver. Every time.
Dan Umphray, CEO
The actor was professional, friendly and well-prepared. I particularly appreciated his arriving early. Lisa was helpful and prompt to reply with all inquiries.
Registered Psychologist
Peers and Players have been our consistent provider of actors since 1998. … All of our clients have been extremely impressed by the professionalism, consistency and realism of the actors involved…They have a thorough understanding of assessment and development processes, and provide a positive and appropriately challenging experience for participants of all levels. … We continue to appreciate our ongoing partnership with Peers and Players are very happy to recommend them.
We received excellent feedback from the participants of our leadership program whose role played various people in leadership scenarios with actors.
Getting the provider right is critical in my role. Our screening process was robust and other providers did not compare. The actors exceeded expectations in all workshops they participated in which allowed us to deliver business outcomes that both exceeded expectations and reinforced the use of actors and delivered solid return on investing in Peers and Players’ services.
Zoe Cooper-Sharan, Learning Manager and Leadership Development
From someone who has worked with a lot of similar organisations, I highly recommend Peers and Players as a market leader.
John Bull
Dynamic training, easy to follow to a high standard, the employees really liked it, and have already asked me if we will have others with you.
Graziele Viana
Using role-players supplied by Peers and Players, CDAC assesses future SES leaders from within the APS, providing these EL 2 employees the opportunity to evaluate and identify core leadership capabilities through a series of challenging workplace scenarios. Role-players are given a detailed brief for each character containing information about their role, status, the current problematic situation, the context, expected ramifications of their actions and so forth.
Talent Measurement Manager
I have used Peers and Players on a number of occasions and they have consistently provided actors with exceptional acting ability and communication skills. On this occasion the actor was perfect for the client, and delivered a great balance of challenging portrayals of the characters, with supportive and practical feedback.
Organisational Psychologist
We love to collaborate with Peers & Players! Their actors are so talented, and they have been so flexible – there’s nothing they can’t do. The role-playing and coaching services they provide for our leadership training has made a big impact on our leader community.
Virginie McLaughlin, HR Program Delivery Manager
We so appreciated the professionalism of the actors and how unique of an experience this was for our team. We received positive feedback from them on the session and feel we were successful in equipping our team to handle conversations where they can appropriately communicate our core capabilities with a number of different stakeholders. Thank you to you and your team!
Vanessa Costa
The office support from P+P was outstanding, working through a weekend across a multitude of time zones to make the client project possible. We would not hesitate to use P+P again!
Damian Welch, Senior Consultant
Our company’s CEO was looking for unique leadership training with his senior executive team – Peers and Players fit the bill!…Storytelling was a key theme the day’s exercises, and how to connect with different audiences. The group had fun, were equally engaged and stretched (literally and figuratively), and continue to weave ‘storytelling’ into their communications throughout the world-wide organization. Thank you Lisa and team!
We have been working with Peers and Players since 2013 and have found them to be professional, helpful, proactive and absolutely reliable on every project. Lisa’s team of actors in Singapore are fantastic, they have always received positive feedback from our clients. They are a pleasure to work with!
Business Development Consultant