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Peter A. C. Smith

Specialist consultant: Social capital and social networks

Peter SmithPeter Smith maintains an international consulting practice assisting Fortune 500 organizations enhance performance by optimizing strategies related to critical innovation drivers such as knowledge management, organizational learning, leadership, and motivation. Through his research and practice in Network Visualization & Analysis and Social Network Analysis, Peter has developed unique in-depth expertise in cross-organizational communication, collaborative community development, and the identification of Opinion Leaders and Initiative Champions – keys to enhancing Social Capital and successfully implementing any significant organizational change.

Prior to establishing his consulting practice Peter held various senior positions with Exxon in New York and across North America in I/T, HR, R&D, and Operations. The breadth of Peter’s practical hands on management experience has proven invaluable in ensuring that he can relate to the problems and pressures faced by organizations in today’s complex and ambiguous global environments, and it is fundamental to framing his research interests.

Peter is a past Associate of Peter Senge’s Organizational Learning Center (MIT) and of the Agility Forum, and has served as Executive Director of The International Foundation for Action Learning- Canada and as Chair of the International Community of Action Learners. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, and Consulting and Special Issues Editor of The Learning Organization for which he has recently authored an issue focusing on Knowledge Sharing and Social Network Visualization & Analysis. He is also Associate Editor (Practitioners) for the International Journal of Sociotechnology & Knowledge Management. He has had published more than forty academic papers on a broad range of topics related to performance enhancement, including chapters in “The Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information & Knowledge Management”, and “The Handbook of Business Strategy”. Peter is a former member of the Canadian Society for Training & Development and is in demand internationally as a speaker, workshop leader and conference chair.

His research interests include: strategic capital, knowledge management, organizational learning, social capital, entrepreneurialism, innovation, evolutionary organizations, social networks, SNA, communities of practice. Peter is President of The Leadership Alliance, Inc. based in Ontario, Canada and the UK.