Peter Sims is coauthor, with Bill George, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestselling book True North. His work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and TechCrunch, and he is a contributor to the Reuters and Harvard Business Review blogs. He received an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he and several classmates established a popular course on leadership, and he has had a long collaboration with faculty at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Previously, he worked in venture capital with Summit Partners, a leading investment company, and was part of the team that established the firm's London office. He frequently speaks or advises at corporations, associations, and universities. Peter lives in San Francisco.