Pete Maher

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About Pete Maher

Pete is an entrepreneurial leader, innovator, and strategist who's spent most of his career in the enterprise B2B space. He has been driving growth and impact for Mural, a leading collaboration software company, since joining the company's early-pandemic Executive Leadership Team in March 2020. As Head of Services & Opportunity Development, he supports Mural's most strategic customers in transforming how they work, at scale. He previously built and led the Mural Playmakers program, a global community of the world's best facilitators who use Mural to run engaging and effective workshops, meetings, and events. He also led strategic partnerships globally and stood up relationships with a number of key partners who help Mural reach and serve imagination workers around the world.Before joining Mural, Pete co-founded and served as a C-level officer at LUMA Institute, a pioneer in design thinking-focused innovation programs and software. He co-authored Innovating for People, a widely acclaimed handbook of human-centered design methods, and co-created the LUMA System of Innovation, a framework for applying design thinking across organizations and challenges which was lauded by Harvard Business Review as a "taxonomy of innovation." LUMA was acquired in 2022 by Mural.Pete has empowered people in 140+ countries to be more innovative by transforming the way they work. He is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and has been recognized as an Innovator and a Misfit in Education.