Peter Edwards completed his undergraduate and Master of Industrial Relations degrees at Queen's University. He began his career with Abitibi-Price and worked with the organization across Canada. In 1989, he was recruited by Labatt Breweries / Interbrew and held successively more senior positions that encompassed the human resources and labour relations portfolio.

In 1999, Peter agreed to join CN, where he created a culture road map for the organization where he took a leadership position in moving it towards the empower/engaged corporation. In his former role as vice-president, Human Resources, culture change and the high performance organization were part of Peter's mandate. From working on critically praised books on managing a changing railway (How We Work and Why and Change, Leadership, Mud and Why) to establishing individual employee performance scorecards for every one of the 18,500 unionized employees, Peter uses the gamut of OD, HR and LR to continuously re-invent the organizations.

In 2008, Wiley's Publishing released across North America, Switchpoints: Culture Change on the Fast Track, a book co-authored by Peter. The book is a Canadian bestseller, reaching the top ten business books in Canada in the Globe and Mail.

In 2009, Peter agreed to join CP where he is the vice-president of Human Resources and Industrial Relations.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Peter also currently serves on the Boards of the School of Industrial Relations and the Centre for Industrial Relations at Queen's University.

Peter presents at the following IRC program(s): Labour Relations Foundations