PEQ Performance Consulting
It’s Not About the Summit. It’s About the Strength You Build Getting There.
Our approach
We listen first, learn what matters most, and work alongside leaders and teams to build skills that hold steady, no matter the terrain ahead.
Our Services
Elevating Leadership and Team Effectiveness:
With a focus on purposeful development, our services offer targeted strategies that help leaders and team gain clarity, strengthen collaboration, and expand their ability to ensure teams endure through complex challenges, together.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 CEO
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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, Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI)™ Certified Coach and Practitioner, and a 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 Professional in HR Association (PIHRA), Program Chair for National HR Association (NHRA-VC) 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 Awareness Ties Media. Sonja writes regularly for LINK for Counselors (national) and AwareNow Magazine (international).
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PEQ Performance was founded by Hilary Bilbrey and Sonja Montiel, two leadership coaches who discovered a shared belief in the power of people-first development. What began as conversations about values quickly grew into a mission to help leaders and teams grow with confidence and connection. Together, they’ve built a practice rooted in integrity, curiosity, and the commitment to leave every person and organization stronger than they were found.
Today, Hilary is CEO of her independent practice as consultant, speaker, and author. She partners with Fortune 200 companies to elevate talent, ignite leadership, and build cultures of trust and bold alignment. 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.
“During this special time, your leadership skills and responsibility towards our leadership team has really shined through. I’ve had numerous people tell me that you were the best choice for our urgent circumstances during a sudden change in executive leadership.”
— CEO, Global Education Company
Working with PEQ Performance
We partner with organizations that are ready to engage honestly, address real challenges, and move toward meaningful progress. Our role is to guide conversations that many teams avoid, and quickly bring clarity to tough dynamics and creating pathways toward healthier, more effective ways of working.
Our services strengthen essential human and leadership capabilities, the ones that shape how people communicate, collaborate, and make decisions. Grounded in research-based and proven learning practices, our development experiences are built to create lasting change that are not just for one climb, but for every terrain that follows.
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.