Peter Lewis Allen (born 1957) is an American executive coach, business executive, and academic. His business work focuses on corporate and individual growth. His academic research includes people management and numerous areas of the humanities.

Education and career

Allen earned a B.A. in classics and English from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, Pomona College, Yale-National University of Singapore College, Nanyang Business School, and Hult International Business School. He went back to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School in 2000, at which time he left academia for the business world. He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google University, at Agoda (part of the Booking Holdings online travel group), APL Group, and Aegis Ventures. He is the managing director of Allen Strategies LLC, an executive coaching and HR strategy consulting firm. Allen is also an ICF-certified executive coach and a graduate of the Hudson Institute of Coaching.

Academic work

Allen's research focuses on management, human resources, and culture, history, and sexuality. Allen has published articles in the McKinsey Quarterly, the MIT-Sloan Management Review, the New York Times, and numerous other publications. In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU. This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974-2007.

Books