Peter Guber
Peter Guber has spent his entire life blazing his own trail. From movies to music to television to sports, he has seized opportunity and been a pioneer in businesses and industries that are notoriously difficult. A successful executive and entrepreneur in various industries, he has deep strategic and operational experience with universal application.
Peter's diverse career encompasses 40 years of experience that has propelled him to success as an executive, entrepreneur, professional sports team owner, and #1 NYT bestselling author. His extraordinary life has been built on sharing a vision and creating the organization to realize that dream.
In his keynotes, Peter shares lessons he has learned from a life at the highest levels of sports and entertainment – revealing tools and processes that inform and ignite the newest leaders in the business community as they strive to make big things happen.
Peter Guber's career has been fueled by curiosity and personal reinvention. He is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Peter was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Owner and Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. He produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer.
Peter is operating Owner of the three-time NBA Champion Golden State Warriors, an Owner of the six-time National League West Champion, and two-time National League Champion, Los Angeles Dodgers, and an Owner and Executive Chairman of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC). He is Co-Executive Chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company which owns Team Liquid, a premier esports team. Peter is a Regent of the University of California and has been a professor at UCLA for 40 years.
Peter is a noted author with works including Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, which became a 7-year television series on AMC which he hosted. He wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled, The Four Truths of the Storyteller. His most recent business book, Tell To Win – Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Key Industries
Sports/Entertainment/Tech
- Personal films garnering more than 50 Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture for Rain Man
- Owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Golden State Warriors, LAFC (MLS), and Team Liquid (esports)
Real Estate / Finance / Retail
- Just completed building two entertainment arenas - one in Los Angeles (Banc of California Stadium) and one in San Francisco (Chase Center) demonstrating a full understanding of the value of premium real estate
Education / Publications / Author
- UC Regent and Professor at UCLA for 40 years
- #1 NYT Bestselling Author; Cover article for The Harvard Business Review, "The Four Truths of the Storyteller;" Harvard Case Study: "Peter Guber: The 'Me' vs. 'We' Brand"
Corporate Management
- Chairman and CEO of numerous multi-national corporations spanning various industries
Peter Guber has spent his entire life blazing his own trail. From movies to music to television to sports, he has seized opportunity and been a pioneer in businesses and industries that are notoriously difficult. A successful executive and entrepreneur in various industries, he has deep strategic and operational experience with universal application.
Peter's diverse career encompasses 40 years of experience that has propelled him to success as an executive, entrepreneur, professional sports team owner, and #1 NYT bestselling author. His extraordinary life has been built on sharing a vision and creating the organization to realize that dream.
In his keynotes, Peter shares lessons he has learned from a life at the highest levels of sports and entertainment – revealing tools and processes that inform and ignite the newest leaders in the business community as they strive to make big things happen.
Peter Guber's career has been fueled by curiosity and personal reinvention. He is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Peter was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Owner and Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. He produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer.
Peter is operating Owner of the three-time NBA Champion Golden State Warriors, an Owner of the six-time National League West Champion, and two-time National League Champion, Los Angeles Dodgers, and an Owner and Executive Chairman of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC). He is Co-Executive Chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company which owns Team Liquid, a premier esports team. Peter is a Regent of the University of California and has been a professor at UCLA for 40 years.
Peter is a noted author with works including Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, which became a 7-year television series on AMC which he hosted. He wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled, The Four Truths of the Storyteller. His most recent business book, Tell To Win – Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Key Industries
Sports/Entertainment/Tech
- Personal films garnering more than 50 Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture for Rain Man
- Owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Golden State Warriors, LAFC (MLS), and Team Liquid (esports)
Real Estate / Finance / Retail
- Just completed building two entertainment arenas - one in Los Angeles (Banc of California Stadium) and one in San Francisco (Chase Center) demonstrating a full understanding of the value of premium real estate
Education / Publications / Author
- UC Regent and Professor at UCLA for 40 years
- #1 NYT Bestselling Author; Cover article for The Harvard Business Review, "The Four Truths of the Storyteller;" Harvard Case Study: "Peter Guber: The 'Me' vs. 'We' Brand"
Corporate Management
- Chairman and CEO of numerous multi-national corporations spanning various industries
Winning
The call to action is to be a challenger to your own incumbency, to lead the charge to innovate and transform and add the greatest value to your industry before someone else...
Tell to Win – The Power of the Purposeful Story
Peter Guber's extraordinary life has been about telling the right story at the right time and winning.
The ability to tell a purposeful story well is a highly powerful and vastly underutilized professional business tool. It is indeed the secret sauce that can propel success. Unfortunately, by the time most people have entered business, stories, as professional tools, have been dismissed as too soft and have been replaced by soulless bullet points and forgettable data. ...
Thriving in a Culture of Risk
The rapid changes reshaping business today require leaders who stay ahead of the curve, embrace uncertainty, overcome FEAR ("False Evidence Appearing Real"), and take informed risks by "flying in the red zone" where failure lurks, but a greater opportunity horizon lies. Peter Guber credits much of his tremendous business success to heeding these navigational stakes.
The new "normal" is that the world is volatile, turbulent, and perpetually uncertain. Achieving success in today's...
