Peter Schuller is a systems thinker who spent his most of his professional career as a lawyer, corporate executive, entrepreneur, investment banker, and management consultant. In 2007 he left management consulting and founded the Institute for Applied Theology and Science, where he obtained a grant to research the nature of human consciousness, using a multi-disciplinary approach involving neuroscience, complexity science, and network science. His recent book The Beauty of Complexity is a product of that research. In 2017, he joined The Center for Integrative Research (CIR) as a Senior Fellow and has continued his multi-disciplinary work there, producing several different educational programs ranging from primers on “brain systems science” to addressing the dynamics of racism using by understanding the complex systems dynamics of the human brain. He has documented much of that multi-disciplinary approach in books entitled Our Best Hope and The Paradox of Disappointment, which he co-authored with neuroscientist Dr. John Seibyl.
Having grown up in Beirut, Lebanon and travelled to more than 40 countries, for work and pleasure, he has adopted a cross-cultural, global systems approach to design solutions in domains ranging from organizational development to networked communication systems.