Peter Finkelstein

Trained as a physician and psychiatrist, Peter has worked for the past twenty years helping organizations achieve high performance by examining and changing their internal dynamics, leadership and team practices, and culture. Peter brings a wide range of knowledge and experience to leadership development and organizational consulting. He has worked with some of Stanford’s and Silicon Valley’s most talented and successful scientists, entrepreneurs, and executives. With a particular focus on how individuals and groups achieve the high levels of coordinated effort that are required for organizational success, Peter is expert in fostering successful executive teams and high-performance cultures

Experience

• Principal • Upstart Logic 2000 — Present
  • Founder and Principal
  • Characterizing the executive management team's group dynamics and culture and encouraging sustainable behavior patterns.
• Partner • Change Logic, LLC 2007 — 2012
  • Co-Founder with Professors Charles O’Reilly (Stanford GSB), Michael Tushman (Harvard HBS) and Andrew Binns, formerly of McKinsey and IBM.
  • Dedicated to applying the teaching of organizational culture and congruence, problem solving, and the Ambidextrous Organization.
• VP Corporate Development • Critical Point Software 2000 — 2002
  • Co-Founder with Jeff Davitz, Ph.D. and Brant Wenegrat, M.D.
  • A natural language software company
• Psychiatrist • Private Practice 1983 — 1998
  • Private practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Woodside California

Education

• Stanford University Medical School Residency and Post-Doc, Psychiatry
• Michigan State University M.D.
• Columbia College BA, Literature

Publications

Clinical Clerkships - The Heart of Professional Development, Surviving Medical Series Volume 7, Sage Publications, Inc. 2000 ( During his residency and post-doc fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Peter conducted original research on the social psychology of medical work environments in general and the anatomy lab in particular which was the basis for Clinical Clerkships.)