Peter McLaughlin

Biography

Peter McLaughlin’s mission in life is to help people maximize their productivity and quality of life. A poll conducted among top corporations named Peter McLaughlin, along with Tom Peters and Peter Drucker, as one of the best business speakers in the nation. (Source: Journal of Business Strategy)

Peter is author of the book CatchFire: A 7-Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and PowerBoost Your Performance, and co-author of the book Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business. For twenty years, he has studied the leading research on individual and team performance, and created programs to help businesspeople improve their effectiveness.

Peter works with a broad spectrum of organizations, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. His clients include AT&T, American Express, Bank of America, Deloitte Consulting, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Marriott, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Oracle, Siemens, Navistar Financial Corporation, Prudential, PepsiCo, RE/MAX, and Verizon. Peter’s work has been featured in USA Today, Fast Company, and CNN. His books have been translated into six languages.

Prior to his work in the peak performance field, Peter received a Master’s Degree and was on the faculty of Regis University in Denver, taught on the high school and college levels, and coached five sports. As President of McLaughlin Company Realtors for ten years, Peter managed three offices and was a member of the Million Dollar Round Table. His creative achievements in business led the Tarrytown Conference Center in New York to select him as “One of the Top 100 Most Innovative Executives in America.”

Peter’s organization, The McLaughlin Company, offers training programs and consulting services to help corporations maximize their employees’ performance. The McLaughlin Company is based in Denver, Colorado.

Publications

CatchFire presents a seven-step program that will ignite your enthusiasm, boost your productivity, and energize your performance at work. Based on scientific research, hundreds of interviews with successful executives, and a nationwide Professional Workforce Survey, this book offers proven strategies to revitalize your body and brain - and provides real life examples of how individuals and corporations stay healthy, focused, and fun in the face of tough deadlines, heavy workloads, and continual changes.

Titles

CatchFire: Igniting Energy and Performance
Whole-Brain Communication
Winning Sales Habits
Using Positive Psychology to Succeed in Business
High-Performance Coaching
The Power of Feedback
Creative Innovation
Whole-Brained Teamwork: Orchestrating the Brains of Your Organization
Creative Problem Solving