Peter T. Coleman
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Speaking & Consulting

Speaking & consulting.

Peter has been invited to speak at scores of meetings around the globe — from TEDx and Harvard to the United Nations and corporate boardrooms. Available for keynotes, workshops, masterclasses, and consulting engagements.
What Peter speaks about

Five topic areas.

01

Overcoming Toxic Polarization.

How deeply divided organizations, communities, and nations can find the way out.

Based on The Way Out
02

Conflict-Intelligent Leadership.

Navigating disagreement up and down your organization using the CIQ framework.

Based on Making Conflict Work
03

Making Conflict Work.

Harnessing the power of disagreement for innovation and better outcomes.

For teams & leaders
04

Sustainable Peace.

Lessons from the world's most peaceful societies for building lasting stability.

For peacebuilding & policy
05

Navigating DEI Conflicts.

Leveraging multicultural tension for institutional reform and justice.

For universities & orgs

Bring a topic to your audience.

Each keynote is tailored to the room. Tell us what you need.

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Peter Coleman delivering a Conflict-Intelligent Leadership keynote with The Conflict-Intelligent Leader on screen
Keynote · Fall 2025
Conflict-Intelligent Leadership — Critical competencies for a turbulent world.
The Conflict-Intelligence Lab
Peter Coleman speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Keynote · 2024
Aspen Ideas Festival — Can We Learn to Talk to Each Other?
Aspen, Colorado
Peter Coleman at TEDxMIA presenting Why we are stuck
TEDx · 2012
TEDxMIA — Why we are stuck.
Miami, Florida
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— Selected engagements

A working list of recent venues.

Communicates global reach and institutional prestige — academic, civic, governmental, and corporate. A representative slice of the past several years.

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Featured talks & interviews.

A starting point for event organizers and producers. Full archive of media appearances available on the Media page.

TEDx Miami 12:48

Why We're Stuck: The Attraction of a Polarized America.

Peter's most-shared talk — a tour of the dynamical-systems argument behind The Five Percent, made for a general audience.

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Bring Peter to your event, organization, or convening.

Available for keynotes, workshops, masterclasses, and longer consulting engagements with universities, corporations, civic institutions, and peacebuilding organizations.

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