Peter Alduino is author of The Citizen Leader™ Seminars, and President and Founder of Bridge Group Communications, LLC, a San Francisco Bay-Area based leadership development practice providing comprehensive leadership development seminars. Additionally, Peter is a Master Facilitator for The Leadership Challenge Workshop.
Peter offers 18 years of experience and insight working in the field of leadership and management development within organizations as diverse as the AIG, Avis, Bank of America, Charles Schwab & Co., Consumers Energy, Del Monte Foods, the Panama Canal Commission, REI, Sun Microsystems, Travelers, Unilever, WellsFargo, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
The mission for all of his work is to help individuals and leaders build cohesion, communicate direction, gain commitment, lead innovation and change, distribute responsibility and ownership, collaborate, mentor and coach other members of their communities so they can enthusiastically and collectively accomplish their noble goals.
It is Peter’s core belief that we are all co-creators of the world in which we live and work. Our families, our schools, our places of work, our neighborhoods and towns – all of these are the communities that make up our world. Through our daily behaviors, speech, actions and choices, we contribute to the character of those communities, and shape the world in which we live and work, for ourselves, for our families, for our friends, for our colleagues and co-workers, for visitors, and for our fellow citizens.
Peter’s own sense of mission is driven by his strong desire to help his clients enrich their own lives, and create great places to work and live. He is guided in his work by these, his personal and professional values: dare to be true, do good work in service of the common good, honor others, be fair, make choices that promote a healthy mind, body and spirit.
Prior Career Experience
Before founding Bridge Group Communications, Peter held the position of Principal with The Tom Peters Group during which time he conducted leadership development seminars worldwide based on the research and writing of thought leaders in the field including colleagues Terry Pearce, author of Leading Out Loud, and Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, authors of The Leadership Challenge, Credibility, Encouraging the Heart and A Leader’s Legacy.
For five years, Peter was a lecturer in Leadership Communication for MBA students at the University of California - Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business Administration.
Earlier in his career, Peter held the position of Managing Partner with ODI (Organizational Dynamics, Inc.) where he coached senior management teams in developing and deploying strategic plans. Peter began his career in investment banking in Boston.
Education
Peter holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, a B.A. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College, and the C.P.L.F. 1er Degré from the University of Paris – Sorbonne. The Henry Luce Foundation named him a 1980 Luce Scholar.
A Balanced Life
Peter lives in Santa Cruz. When he is not speaking, working with clients or writing, you’re more likely to find him in the water or on his bike relishing the natural beauty of the Central California coast!
