Peter Laughter

Storyteller – Speaker – Leveraging the power of narrative to drive change and humanize business by transforming the way we connect with talent

Humility is a great teacher.

Humility earned through arrogance is painful but nonetheless effective. I know this from experience.

As a leader of a recruiting firm, I was controlling, untrusting, and frightened. My behavior nearly cost me everything. Yet through a pivotal experience on a non-profit board, I witnessed something transformative: the power of collaborative leadership and conflict resolution.

We achieved outcomes no single faction could have accomplished alone. By listening to detractors not to convince but to understand, we turned critics into collaborators.

This lesson hit home when one of my employees challenged my boneheaded response to a crisis. Her simpler approach, which I resisted, proved far more effective. In that moment, theory collided with reality, showing me that intellectual understanding alone is never enough.

Leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about creating conditions where great ideas thrive and others can step into leadership.

Today, as a keynote speaker and leadership transformation raconteur, I bridge the gap between organizational theory and practical implementation. Through award-winning storytelling as a three-time Moth Story Slam winner and TEDx speaker and evidence-based insights, I help executives navigate disruption by showing how leaders can:

Release the shackles of command-and-control
Access collective wisdom of their teams
Transform culture to thrive in rapid change

The stakes are immense:

77 percent of employees worldwide are disengaged, representing untapped potential
70 percent of digital transformations fail, wasting billions in lost innovation
Traditional leadership models cannot keep pace with AI-driven change, leaving teams struggling to adapt

All of this happens against the backdrop of a world on fire, where crises demand collaboration but we remain divided.

Organizations that embrace Abundant Leadership, where authority is distributed and decisions happen closer to the front lines, can:

Reduce overhead by 40 percent
Ramp up productivity
Drive sustainable innovation amid chaos

When collaboration becomes part of how we work, it spreads to our families, communities, and institutions, and eventually their politics ushering a better world for us all.

If you resonate with these ideas and want to explore how theory can become transformative reality in your organization, I would love to connect. Message me or copy this link to put your date on hold: peterlaughter.com/date-hold/

#LeadershipTransformation #FutureOfWork #OrganizationalChange #Innovation #Leadership #ExecutiveSpeaker

Founder & Talent Pied Piper

For two thirds of us, works sucks. It’s no wonder the world is in such bad shape – most of us spend a huge part of our waking lives doing something we barely tolerate. It doesn’t need to be this way. After 25 years in recruitment, I have an uncommon understanding of the psychology of hiring. What’s more, I know that your future is not dictated by your past. I love opening up joyous opportunities for people’s careers and helping them transition from a place of purpose and deep understanding.

As your business grows, the job changes. What worked in the early days isn’t enough anymore—and neither is leading the same way you always have. You want strong results without sacrificing purpose, or building success at the expense of your people, sanity, or soul.

I partner with people-focused CEOs and founders navigating growth, complexity, and generational change—supporting the leadership evolution required to scale both the business and the person leading it.

After more than two decades leading teams across corporate and entrepreneurial environments, I learned the hard way that when performance outpaces leadership capacity, people burn out, cultures break, and growth stalls.

That experience led me to develop Work ALIVE™, a work-life integration approach that underpins how I work with leaders and teams today. When leaders align how they lead with how they live, both business and personal success accelerate.

Today, I work with service- and knowledge-driven organizations growing beyond founder-led systems—building leadership capacity, leading hybrid teams, and strengthening cultures that perform without wearing people down.

In practice, this means expanding your ability to adapt to evolving talent expectations, technology, trust challenges, and generational change—without losing what makes your business human.

If you’re leading a growing organization and starting to feel the weight of scale—on your leaders, your team, or yourself—I invite you to have a conversation.

Sonita Reese

Is it too late to wish you a Happy New Year?

Because it’s been a while —

A family crisis in Q2 of last year reshaped how I expected 2025 to unfold.

And guided where I was able to show up.

So I stepped away from LinkedIn for a season.

Business didn’t stop completely, but it moved out of the spotlight.

In coffee shops.
Through my email list.
In small Zoom sprints helping leaders become AI-ready.

But I missed you.

And I’m looking forward to dialoguing and serving you again—regularly.

Because that turbulent season reinforced two things:

You grow through what you go through.
And people are always at the heart of it all.

So, here’s to a 2026 marked by growth that doesn’t lose its humanity.

Grow Capacity & Culture as You Scale | Leadership Advisor for People-Focused CEOs & Founders | Talent, Tech, Trust & Generational Change

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