Booking engagements
Making work more human, and making strategy actually work.
Organizations rarely come to me because everything is going perfectly. Usually there is a harder conversation underneath the request.
Culture has become fragmented. People are exhausted. Leaders are trying to navigate change without losing trust. Psychological safety sounds great in a slide deck but does not quite exist in the room.
Recent stages
- Workhuman Live, 2026Main stage panel with Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor
- Workhuman Live, 2025Diplomatic Disruption: How You Can Have a Seat at the Table
- NASW Pennsylvania ConferenceSpeaker
- City of PhiladelphiaMayor’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social WorkAdult play, trauma and the arts
- Venture Café PhiladelphiaSpeaker
Peter is an exceptional keynote speaker whose thought leadership is matched by genuine authenticity, intellectual curiosity, and deep compassion. They take the time to understand the audience, ask insightful questions, and collaborate as though they’re an extension of your own team. I recommend Peter without hesitation.
How I work
I am a strategist, organizational advisor, executive and C-suite coach, and culture change-maker who helps leaders turn complicated people problems into practical, sustainable strategies. My work sits at the intersection of organizational effectiveness, inclusion and belonging, psychological safety, workforce well-being, culture transformation, and human behavior.
And yes, I bring psychology into the strategy room. Because organizations are systems, but systems are made of people. If we design a brilliant strategy that ignores how people actually experience work, we have not really solved the problem.
Sometimes I am the strategic thought partner in the room, the person helping an executive make sense of what is happening beneath the surface. Sometimes I am facilitating the conversation nobody else wants to have. Sometimes we are building the strategy, operating model, governance structure, measurement framework, or roadmap that turns good intentions into something an organization can actually sustain.
My approach is rigorous, relational, and deeply human. I am interested in outcomes, but I am equally interested in whether the people responsible for delivering those outcomes have the capacity, trust, clarity, and support to make them happen.
Well-being is not an add-on to my strategy work. It is part of the strategy.
Peter’s efforts have yielded immense impact on the employee and patient experience, have enabled an integrated organizational strategy, and have impacted the Philadelphia community at large.
What an engagement looks like
- Executive advising
- Strategic planning
- Organizational and culture assessment
- Leadership development
- Workshops
- Keynote speaking
- Facilitated dialogue
- Workforce well-being strategy
- Longer term advisory partnerships
Speaking topics
28 talks and workshops across four areas, developed and delivered. Every one can be shaped to a room. Open an area to see its talks.
Psychology, play and creativityShow 7 talks
- Why Play Is Serious Business: The Psychology of Adult Play
- Adult Play and Nostalgia: Finding Our Way Back to the Inner Child
- The Psychology of Toys: What Our Playthings Teach Us About Ourselves
- Geek Therapy: When Fandom Becomes a Pathway to Connection and Healing
- The Neuroscience of Play, Creativity and Connection
- The Magic of Imagination: Creativity as a Tool for Resilience
- From Toys to Therapy: How Objects, Stories and Play Help Us Make Meaning
Trauma, well-being and the bodyShow 7 talks
- Trauma-Informed Care for Professional Artists
- When the Mind and Body Stop Talking
- The Body Aesthetic: Body Image, Dysmorphia, Dysphoria and Wellness
- Beyond Burnout: Rethinking Workplace Well-Being
- Psychological Safety Is a Human Need, Not a Buzzword
- The Emotional Cost of Being “Fine”
- Resilience, Recovery and the Things That Help Us Keep Going
Inclusion, identity and cultureShow 6 talks
- Toxic Masculinity: Who’s It For?
- Representation Matters: What Pop Culture Teaches Us About Belonging
- Queer Representation, Play and the Psychology of Belonging
- Authenticity at Work: What Happens When People Can Actually Be Themselves?
- From Inclusion to Belonging: The Missing Ingredients
- The Psychology of Otherness: What Happens When We Feel Like We Don’t Fit?
Leadership, organizations and the future of workShow 8 talks
- Diplomatic Disruption: How to Have a Seat at the Table
- Making Work More Human: Strategy, Culture and Psychological Well-Being
- The Culture You Think You Have vs. The Culture People Actually Experience
- Leading Through Collective Strain
- The Human Side of Organizational Change
- Well-Being Is the Strategy
- Building Psychological Safety That Actually Works
- When Culture Gets Complicated: How Leaders Navigate the Messy Middle
Start a conversation
If your organization is ready to have the honest conversation, rethink what is not working, and build something better, let’s talk.
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