Dr. Peter Gamwell
Born in Liverpool, England, Peter is the co-author, with Jane Daly, of Thinker, Learner, Dreamer, Doer: Innovative Pedagogies for Cultivating Every Student’s Potential (2022) and The Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools and Organizations in an Age of Complexity (2017), forward by Sir Ken Robinson.
An insightful, entertaining, and knowledgeable speaker, presenter and consultant, Peter brings decades of academic research, experience, and insightful knowledge, gleaned from his award-winning career as a teacher and administrator at all levels of the education system. Through his presentations, workshops, books, YouTune channel, and website, he explores learning, leadership, and innovation and their impact on individual and organizational health and culture. Peter has worked across Canada and throughout many parts of the world, showing students, educators, administrators, schools, districts, companies, and policy makers how to foster that vibrancy in their own orgnaizations.
Through the course of his work and research, Peter has captured the voices of hundreds of students and adults alike, video clips that provide unique and insightful glimpses into the lived world of our classrooms, schools and organizations. These clips also provide critical insights as to how we might imagine our learning cultures in a way that reawakens the brilliance that lies in all of us, with a central focus on individual, group, and organizational well-being.
An adjunct professor with the University of Ottawa, Peter has been the recipient of many awards through out his forty-year career including the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Ontario Public Supervisory Officers’ Association and the Global Distinguished leadership Award by the Alberta Teachers’ Association. In 2020, he cofounded the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity, @CNIC, which holds monthly IdeaJams on a wide range of topics - and which evoke lots of lively interactive conversation.