PEQ Performance Consulting

Scaling Peaks, Cultivating Talent, Elevating Culture.

Our approach

Empowering You for Lasting Change:
Listen, Learn, Transform with PEQ Performance Consulting

Our Services

Unlock Your Team’s Potential with Tailored Solutions: Partner with us to drive sustainable growth and achieve your business objectives. Our customized services focus on addressing your unique challenges and crafting actionable plans for success. Experience the power of joy and innovation as we guide you towards transformation and long-term impact.

  • Our training and workshops are tailored to empower leaders with essential skills for success. Focusing on leadership and power skills, our sessions cover team building, active listening, boundary-setting, team effectiveness, and establishing community agreements. These interactive, creative, and playful experiences equip leaders with the tools they need to foster collaboration, create healthy working environments, and drive positive outcomes. Elevate your leadership capabilities with our transformative training.

  • Whether you are an individual seeking personal or professional growth, or an organization aiming to enhance teamwork and leadership, our coaching expertise is tailored to your needs. With a focus on your goals and challenges, we provide guidance, support, and a structured coaching plan to help you overcome obstacles and drive positive change.

  • Our facilitation services are highly adaptable to your team's targeted objectives, whether it's aligning on strategic planning, brainstorming innovative solutions, or developing a roadmap for success. By leveraging our facilitation expertise, your team can navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and move forward with a unified vision and purpose.

  • Our mediation service provides a neutral and confidential platform for resolving disputes and conflicts efficiently and equitably. Our experience helps teams and individuals facilitate constructive dialogues, helping parties reach mutually agreeable solutions, and saving time and resources while preserving relationships. Trust us to guide you toward resolution and harmony.

  • Our organization collaborates with other organizations to explore what belonging really means to the people within the organization. We dive deep into the underlying issues that create any challenges. Through our analysis, we are able to identify problems such as a lack of transparency in leadership communication.

  • Elevate your event with our engaging speaking and keynote services. Our dynamic speaking engagements deliver thought-provoking talks on a range of topics, inspiring and motivating audiences to action. Whether you're seeking expert insights, inspiration, or fresh perspectives, we leave a lasting impact, making your event memorable and meaningful.

Meet the Founders


  • Co-Founder

    A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Hilary has lived in four countries, trekked across cultures, and even hiked Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon in a single day. Whether she’s on a mountaintop, a stage, or in a boardroom, she brings boundless energy, unshakable presence, and the deep belief that vulnerability is a superpower, not a liability. 

    Hilary partners with Fortune 200 companies to elevate talent, ignite leadership, and build cultures of trust and bold alignment. She is a self-declared "Energizer Bunny" for purpose and possibility—watching people light up when they reconnect to their own potential is her favorite part of the job. Hilary is also a Master Facilitator for The Virtues Project™ and President Elect for National Speakers Association SoCal.

    Her book The Authenticity Key: Claim Your Words. Set Your Compass. Blaze Your Trail.  is her love letter to the possibility inside all of us. 

  • Co-Founder

    With over 25 years of experience in higher education, customer service, and training, Sonja Montiel (MA Ed) is known for her ability to quickly identify the root causes of leadership and team challenges within companies and organizations. She is a Positive Intelligence mental fitness coach and certified facilitator for The Virtues Project™.

    Sonja's expertise supports leadership and departments through one-to-one coaching, team development training, and talent planning and development strategies, where thoughtful concise action plans accelerate human potential within their organization.

    Sonja serves as Membership Chair for PIHRA and is engaged in her community as a board member for Conejo Schools Foundation, VP of Parent Engagement for The Center Parent Network, and ambassador of education for AwareNow Magazine. She writes regularly for the national publication, LINK for Counselors and AwareNow.

“We do not subscribe to a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather partner with organizations to champion their core values and amplify their authentic voices.”

— HILARY, PEQ Performance Consulting

Working with PEQ Performance

We recognize the need and help companies uncover and work through the hard stuff to get to sustainable solutions. We have the skills necessary to facilitate this process and provide support to companies that are willing to go deep and call out the elephants in the room.

Our focus is on improving soft skills, which are power skills, as well as leadership skills. We don't just believe in checking boxes but follow educational theory to ensure our approach is sustainable and sticks.

Curious? Let’s connect.

We see you and believe in you. Being here means you are ready to take the next step. Schedule time with us to begin the exploration of what it would feel and look like to work with PEQ Performance. No matter the outcome of our call, we promise that you will leave with some clarity and an action step forward.