Peter Coughlan
About
Peter Coughlan coleads IDEO’s Health & Wellness practice, focusing on helping clients create disruptive new offers that change the landscape of health care. He has worked with medical-device manufacturers, health-care delivery systems, the pharmaceutical industry, and foundations. His clients include Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, MaineGeneral Health, Mass General, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Medtronic, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and Texas Health Resources.
Before joining the Health & Wellness practice, Peter cofounded IDEO’s Transformation practice, a group dedicated to helping organizations develop design and innovation capabilities.
Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Trinity College in Connecticut; a master’s degree in education from Boston University; and a PhD in applied linguistics from UCLA.
Speaking Highlights
Speaking Topics
Health & Wellness
Organizational Design
Supply-Chain Design
Systems Design