"Peter has a captivating stage presence and the talk he gave at my conference was a highlight of the event. His storytelling arc held the audience attention, and his video has generated tens of thousands of views."
- Aaron Sylvan (Host of TEDxFultonStreet)
Brief Overview
- Founder of an Inc. 500 Ranked Platform
- 25+ Years as a Founder and Serial Entrepreneur (founding businesses including 3 staffing firms)
- TEDx Speaker on Radical Empathy
- Three-Time Moth Story Slam Winner & Featured on The Moth Podcast
- Pioneer: the First SaaS platform for Enterprise Contingent Labor
The Not-So-Brief Version
Peter Laughter’s current journey began with a leadership breakthrough during a crisis on a Quaker school board, shattering his command-and-control worldview and setting him on a new path. Over the next 25+ years he founded multiple successful firms, pioneered staffing technologies, and now uses that strategic and compassionate lens to guide leaders away from hierarchical leadership. He empowers leaders in systems rooted in empathy, connection, and collective intelligence.
Peter doesn’t offer leadership platitudes; he offers transformation. Expect storytelling so vivid you feel the room change, and leadership strategies so actionable they land before your feet hit the strategic floor. Embodying the belief that human resources are our most important resources, he's the perfect speaker to help you build teams that seek the incredible.
He blends strategic experience with emotional resonance to help you build organizations that are resilient, inspired, and deeply human.
In his session, Seeking the Right Leadership Framework, Peter unpacks Abundant Leadership, a shift from power to partnership, where innovation thrives through distributed authority. You'll walk out with actionable steps to seek out the incredible in your people, and help them manifest it in your business.
Drawing from real-world challenges and wins, he’ll give you the frameworks and mindset shifts required to thrive in complexity so you can lead with humanity, not hierarchy.
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