Peter Block

Peter Block is an influential author, speaker, and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. His work is dedicated to bringing change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force.

Peter is the author of Flawless Consulting;  Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest; The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work; Freedom and Accountability at Work, co-authored with Peter Koestenbaum; Community: The Structure of Belonging; and, most recently, The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, co-authored with John McKnight.

Peter is the recipient of the Organization Development Network’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 he received their first place Members’ Choice Award, which recognized Flawless Consulting as the most influential book for OD practitioners over the past 40 years.

Peter serves on the Boards of Directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio; Elementz, a Hip Hop center for urban youth; and LivePerson, a provider of online engagement solutions.. He is on the Advisory Board for the Festival in the Workplace Institute, Bahamas. He is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University. With other volunteers in Cincinnati, Peter began A Small Group, whose work is to create a new community narrative and to bring his work on civic engagement into being.

He has received national awards for outstanding contributions in the field of training and development, including the American Society for Training and Development Award for Distinguished Contributions; the Association for Quality and Participation President’s Award; and Training Magazine HRD Hall of Fame.

Peter’s office is in Mystic, Connecticut. You can visit his websites at www.peterblock.com, www.designedlearning.com, and www.asmallgroup.net.