About Peernovation
Peer•no•va•tion (pir-nə-ˈvā-shən):
Peer (people of equal standing) and Innovation (creativity realized)
Peernovation is about the people who sit beside us. The people who challenge our thinking, expand our possibilities, and help us achieve more together than we ever could alone. Inspired by the world's top CEO forums, we help organizations create the conditions where people challenge, support, and elevate one another.
Our Approach
Combining Vertical and Horizontal Strength
People rise to higher standards when surrounded by high-performing peers. While organizational structures establish authority and accountability, horizontal relationships activate influence, trust, and shared commitment. Peernovation helps organizations leverage both dimensions, recognizing that some of the most influential people aren't necessarily those with the loftiest titles, but those whose peers trust, respect, and seek to emulate.
Harnessing the Power of Peer Trust
Employees turn to trusted peers for perspective, support, and guidance. These relationships shape how people think, behave, and perform, often more powerfully than formal directives. Organizations that intentionally cultivate peer trust and influence create the conditions for stronger collaboration, mutual accountability, and sustained performance.
The Peernovation Progression
Peer Influence
The influence people have on one another's attitudes, behaviors, and performance.
Peer Advantage
What becomes possible when we intentionally harness peer influence to elevate one another.
Peernovation
When people combine their strengths to achieve more together than they could alone.
What the World's Best CEO Forums
Teach Us About Team Performance
For more than two decades, we've studied what makes the world's leading CEO peer advisory forums so effective. We discovered that their success isn't simply about bringing talented people together. It's about creating the conditions in which people learn faster, challenge one another, and achieve more together.
These same principles can transform how teams perform throughout an organization.
The Learning-Achieving Cycle
High-performing teams continuously learn, apply, achieve, reflect, celebrate, and raise their standards. Each achievement drives the next.
Intentional and Collateral Learning
Teams learn from what they seek to accomplish and what they discover about working together along the way.
Shared
Responsibility
Exceptional performance emerges when leaders, individuals, and teams take responsibility for bringing out the best in one another.
