When it comes to personal peak performance, few understand it and live it like Dave Carpenter does.
Dave’s interest in the field of personal peak performance originated from his long career in counseling companies on restructuring to improve corporate performance. Over his 25 years of experience on the front lines of the Corporate Restructuring world, Dave frequently observed that corporate performance is heavily influenced by the effectiveness of the personal performance of the leaders of a company. These observations led to his keen interest in studying personal peak performance, in all kinds of vocations and situations.
Dave’s studies have included analysis of the extensive literature on peak performance, interviews with high performers from a wide variety of fields, and numerous studies of partner performance in professional service firms. He continues to interview high performers through his weekly hosting of the Peak Performance show on Exceptional Wisdom Radio. On this popular show, Dave interviews peak performers from business, athletics or the arts, as well as leading performance experts and coaches.
He has also gained significant insight into personal peak performance through his frequent participation in the world-famous Outward Bound program. Outward Bound creates experiential learning through their wilderness expeditions that provide participants with a unique means of assessing one’s personal performance and one’s relationship with others. Dave has successfully completed six Outward Bound programs with a duration of ten or more days. From white water canoeing in North Carolina, to desert hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, to performing a peak ascent of Mexico’s Mt. Popo (17,000 feet), Dave has had the opportunity to study how people perform under the stress provided by wilderness elements.
Dave’s passion is helping others to be their best. He continues to counsel high performers at leading professional service firms. He also supports an unusually high number of mentoring relationships with high performers in a wide variety of fields. And, he has taught hundreds of courses on improving performance.
Dave is the creator of the Quantum Leap Strategies web site which, over the last six years of its existence, has become one of the most popular sites devoted to personal growth. This widely acclaimed site attracts visitors from around the world who enjoy the wisdom and activities designed to help people be the very best that they can be.
His extensive work in helping people to be their best has resulted in his being chosen by us as the Exceptional Wisdom scholar on personal peak performance and by SelfGrowth.com as their official guide on peak performance.
Exceptional Wisdom is producing Dave’s multi-media program on Peak Performance, which will debut in the summer of 2009.
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