Tom Peters has been called the Uber-guru of management and Uber-guru by Fortune and The Economist respectively.

Born in Baltimore in 1942, residing in Northern California from 1974-2000, Peters currently lives in Vermont. As a civil engineering graduate of Cornell (B.C.E., M.C.E.) and business graduate of Stanford (M.B.A., Ph.D.), Peters also holds honorary doctorates from several institutions.

Peters was enlisted in the U.S. Navy from 1966-1970 where he made two deployments to Vietnam. From 1973-74, Peters served as a senior White House drug-abuse advisor, and later worked at McKinsey & Co. from 1974 to 1981, becoming a partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader in 1979.

Peters is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, The World Productivity Association, the International Customer Service Association, and the Society for Quality and Participation.

In 1982, Peters co-authored In Search of Excellence with Bob Waterman, which has been known as one of the "Top Three Business Books of the Century," as well as ranked as the "greatest business book of all time" in a poll by Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing (2002).

Some of Tom Peter’s other bestsellers are A Passion for Excellence (1985, with Nancy Austin), Thriving on Chaos (1987), Liberation Management (1992), The Tom Peters Seminar (1993), The Pursuit of WOW! (1994), The Circle of Innovation (1997).