Peter’s books extend the same curiosity that runs through his professional work: an interest in people, places, difficult questions and what experience can teach us.
From published works to new writing in development, this is where Peter’s longer-form ideas and stories live.
Peter Cloutier explores the experiences and encounters that shape how we understand people, places and the world around us. What We Were Making is an Amazon Best Seller. In the words of Mariel Hemingway: “A tremendous homage to the worlds of land and sea, of beautiful conflicts of interest.”
The book grew from an experience, observation, or question that stayed with Peter and raised a deeper idea worth exploring. It captures the thinking behind that journey and the reason it ultimately needed to become a book.
Some ideas need more than a presentation, an article or a conversation.
Peter’s books provide the space to explore experiences, ideas and questions in greater depth.
His existing work is joined by further writing in development, including a memoir drawn from his broader life and professional experience.
Some ideas need more than a presentation, an article or a conversation.
Peter’s books provide the space to explore experiences, ideas and questions in greater depth.
His existing work is joined by further writing in development, including a memoir drawn from his broader life and professional experience.
Peter’s writing is also being developed for audio, creating another way to experience the stories and ideas behind the books.
Available audiobooks will appear here as they are released.
Not all of Peter’s writing begins with strategy or professional experience.
His fiction explores people — their decisions, relationships, circumstances and the forces that shape the lives they lead.
Character-driven stories provide another way of exploring many of the questions that have interested Peter throughout his life and work.
Across countries, organizations, classrooms, communities and some of the world’s more challenging environments, Peter has accumulated stories that extend far beyond a conventional professional biography.
A memoir is in development, bringing together selected experiences and the people, places and lessons that shaped them.
Peter’s writing, consulting, speaking and teaching are different expressions of the same underlying curiosity.
Why do some organizations transform while others remain stuck?
How do people respond when circumstances become difficult?
What happens when conventional assumptions stop working?
And what can experience teach us that theory alone cannot?
The books provide room to explore those questions differently — through longer arguments, deeper reflection and story.
