Peter Sims
Peter Sims

Peter Sims

Best-Selling Author and Entrepreneur

Speaking Topics

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  • Creativity

  • Design

  • Innovation

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Leadership

Travels From

  • CA

Speaker's Fee Range

  • $20,000 - $40,000

Peter Sims

Peter Sims' Key Accomplishments Include . . . Peter Sims is a best-selling author and entrepreneur. He has had a long collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school), a hub of creative thinking and doing.

Peter has a natural ability to connect with his audience through his experience and passion.  He was great to work with, and we had standing room only at our speaking event!

— Eli Lilly

Peter’s latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries and he was the coauthor with Bill George of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-seller. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Mashable, strategy+business, Tech Crunch, and as an Expert blogger for Fast Company. 

Previously, he worked in venture capital with Summit Partners, where he had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, including as part of the team that established Summit’s European Office in London. 

Peter Sims is a member of General Electric’s Innovation Advisory Panel, and is a Co-founder and Director of Fuse Corps, an innovative social venture that will enable America’s most entrepreneurial leaders to work on year-long grassroots projects to tackle some of society’s most pressing problems, such as within education, reporting directly to mayors, governors, an their senior staffs.

Peter Sims frequently speaks or advises at corporations, associations, and universities, including Google, Eli Lilly, Pixar, ConAgra, Gap Inc., Cisco Systems, Current TV, Amazon, and Stanford University.

More About Speaker, Peter Sims. . .
A graduate of Bowdoin College, Peter Sims received an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School where he established a popular class. 

Peter lives in San Francisco and some of his favorite pursuits include family, friends, music, people, learning, San Francisco Giants baseball and laughter.
Suggested Keynote Programs
  • Little Bets
  • Authentic Leadership
What People Are Saying

"Peter connects with his audience and conveys his points through vivid examples and stories that employees at all levels can relate to.  The feedback was overwhelmingly positive!"

— Conagra

"Peter Sims joined us for our annual conference as the lead keynote speaker, and we couldn’t have been happier. He has the ability to reach out and inspire each person in the audience with his knowledge and expertise.  The event was a great success with much of the credit going to Peter for helping engage and impact the audience."

— BioWest Bioscience