BEYOND THE RESUME
I spent a decade building iStrategyLabs, a global digital agency, from zero to acquisition. And a 25,000 person tech community and 12,000 person tech festival along the way.
I know what it feels like to have the weight of 100+ employees on your shoulders. I know the thrill of winning $100m+ of deals with the Fortune 500. And I know the quiet loneliness and exhaustion of the marathon. After selling my company, I realized that the hardest part of leadership wasn't the strategy, it was managing one's internal landscape.
Today, I work with founders, CEOs and leaders in transition who are ready to leverage their drive into a more sustainable and joyful way of leading. I bring my experience as an entrepreneur, vast network, and my training in Zen, hospice, IFS, gestalt and NLP to every conversation.
Quick Facts
- Founded iStrategyLabs (acquired by WPP), pioneering early social + emerging tech marketing.
- Trusted facilitator to top-tier leadership networks including YPO, Summit, Hampton, and Fortune 500 executive teams.
- Venture Partner at a mobility-focused fund investing at the intersection of transportation, autonomy, and infrastructure. Mentor and advisor to over a dozen global tech inclubators and accerators.
- Strategic advisor to dozens of high-growth startups, with a focus on product-market fit, narrative design, and scaling.
- Designed and led transformational retreats and leadership intensives across 20+ countries for founders, CEOs, and elite performers.
- Executive coach to high-performing founders and operators, integrating behavioral science, mindfulness, and peak performance systems.
- Graduate of Phillip Exeter Academy and Emory's Goizueta Business School with a focus in Operations & Management, and TA role in Entrepreneurship.
- Builder of next-generation platforms at the intersection of AI, human performance, and collective intelligence, with three pending Certifications from Harvard Medical School in AI transformation in healthcare.
- Certificate in Permaculture design from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
- Certification in Contemplative Care (hospice, end-of-life, spiritual care) from the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care with clinical rotations ER & ICU of The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
WHY I'M COACHING & ADVISING
From Founder to Executive Coach & Advisor
My Journey
I resisted being a coach and advising for years. Having built and sold my company to a publicly traded one, I still thought I was a quarterback even though I had no team to lead. So why coach or advise, especially if I don't need the money?
Well, it's hard to ignore the signal of hundreds of friends and strangers knocking on my door these past few years for all manner of support. It became impossible to ignore their feedback that I have a valuable skillset and experience - and that it would be beneficial to share as much as possible.
- I've been through the fire of founding and building a company from scratch
- I've worked with 35 of the Fortune 500 and high growth startups alike
- I've experienced the joy and pain of selling the business to a public company
- I've rebuilt myself post-exit and allowed a more authentic self to come through
- I've found practices that work for leaders in the trenches and those transitioning
So, after dropping my resistance, I said yes to a fellow YPO friend when they asked me to help them deal with their challenges leading a multibillion-dollar company through to its eventual sale. Along the way, I've coached and advised other unicorn founders and smaller startups. I don't care about the business size - I care about whether or not I can help leaders have breakthroughs week after week as we work on their priorities.
CLIENTS AND SPECIALIZATIONS
Global company leaders choose to work with Peter when the stakes are high, the problems are complex, and the answer isn’t obvious. Whether in 1:1 coaching, facilitated offsites for teams, or custom innovation workshops, his 20 years of award winning experience is unparalleled among his peers.
FULL BIO
Within me there is a CEO, a coach, an adventurer and a mystic. There's an entrepreneur with $100m+ of deals under his belt. There's a consumer marketing expert who's won all the awards, worked with all the big brands and knows it doesn't matter. Then, there is a gardener, wilderness guide, creative, festival producer, meditation teacher and trained spiritual caregiver who attends to the sick and dying through hospice volunteering.
Peter Corbett is the post-exit founder of iStrategyLabs – a digital agency that he sold to WPP and retired from at 37. He currently serves as an executive coach and is building AI that serves as a wellbeing operating system connecting leaders, practitioners, and health innovators. He's passionate about integrating AI, neuroscience, and contemplative practice to design the next generation of human-centered health systems.
He's widely known for his marketing acumen, coupled with a deep technical background and a focus on community building. His client work includes brands like VW, Disney, ESPN, ABC, NPR, PBS, GE, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Intel, GEICO, American Eagle Outfitters, Pinkberry, Honest Tea, Coca-Cola, the US Army and more.
Post-exit, Peter has become a sought-after executive coach and facilitator. He has served 3x as the Forum Officer for largest YPO chapter in the world (YPO Metro NY) and is a Chapter Wellness Chair for YPO Global. His recent coaching assignments have included: guiding a CEO through their multi-billion dollar sale to a public company, helping a CEO save their spouse's life, supporting a $100m+ company CEO beat multiple addictions and working with another to scale their venture fund while creating a family.
Peter has led hundreds of CEOs and growth-oriented leaders on mindful leadership experiences, including two-week immersions into the Ecuadorian Amazon, survival courses in the desert and multi-day silent meditation retreats in the Zen tradition. Experiential breakthroughs are his forté.
Peter splits his time between NY, SF, and East Hampton and is currently building a new offering in the wellness and well-being space.
2018-Present
- Executive Coach and Advisor to CEOs/Founders and their teams
- Expert facilitator of retreats, workshops, and small groups (YPO forums / Hampton etc.)
- Co-Founder of Spirituality Week, a community festival in NYC focused on mind, body, spirit
- Venture Partner at UP.Partners, a $230m fund focused on mobility, autonomy, and space tech.
- Early-stage investor/advisor/mentor (SmallHold, NewLab, Kosterina, Profi)
- Real estate investor (20+ deals in 5 years, ground-up spec development, historic estate and townhouse restoration)
- Former Board Member and Forum Chair for YPO Metro New York
- Trained “Spiritual Caregiver” for the sick and dying, with over 150 clients served
CEO of ISL Awards & Accolades
- 2016 CEO of Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year
- 2016 Cannes Lions award for NBCUniversal's Mr. Robot Campaign
- 2016 Streamy Awards (3) for NBCUniversal's Mr. Robot Campaign
- 2015 Most Innovative People in Events by BizBash
- 2015 CEO of Washington Post's Top Workplaces
- 2014 CEO of Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year
- 2014 Power 100 Most Influential Business Person in DC by Washington Business Journal
- 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year, Emory University
- 2013 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting “Davos” Global Shaper Participant and Speaker
- 2013 Advisor to the EU Commission on Digital Social Innovation
- 2013 Advisor to the Singapore Government's eGov & Open Data Initiative
- 2012 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions “Summer Davos” Global Shaper and Speaker
- 2013 Power 100 Most Influential Business Person in DC by Washington Business Journal
- 2012 Power 100 Most Influential Business Person in DC by Washington Business Journal
- 2011 Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum
- 2011 40 Under 40 by Washington Business Journal
- 2011 30 Under 40 by Bisnow
- 2010 Power 30 Under 30™
- 6 Addy's for digital and experiential campaigns
- 2 Living Labs Global Innovation awards
- 1 Webby Honorable Mention
- 1 Pioneer Institute Better Government Award
- Named Technology Advisor to DC Mayor Vince Gray's Transition Team
- Named Technology Advisor to DC Mayor Vince Gray's Economic Development Team
- 3x named one of the most influential Washingtonians under 40 by WashingtonLife
- 2x named one of 100 Tech Titans by Washingtonian Magazine
- Named one of 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers by Government Technology Magazine
- Named as Advisor to Code for America, Civic Commons, Commons for Europe and Code for Europe
- Named as Advisor to Apps for Europe
- Won Great Washington DC Board of Trade's “One To Watch” award for being “A rising entrepreneur who has a bright and sustainable future in Greater Washington”
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