Peg Carlson

Senior Consultant

Peg Carlson is an organizational psychologist, a Senior Consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates, and emeritus professor of the practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Throughout her career, she has worked with a wide variety of public, private, and nonprofit organizations as a facilitator, trainer, coach, and consultant to help them build effective leadership teams.

As a faculty member at the UNC School of Government, Peg was founding director of its Center for Public Leadership and Governance (CPLG). CPLG provides training, consulting, coaching, and research services to North Carolina local and state government officials to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to lead and govern their organizations and communities.

She has published articles on developing effective groups, assessing the chief executive’s performance, and multi-rater feedback and is co-author of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook: Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

Peg first learned the Mutual Learning approach in the early 1990s when she and Roger Schwarz were faculty colleagues at UNC. She has used the Mutual Learning mindset and behaviors as the foundation of her work ever since. While Peg loves helping people use these principles and tools to achieve breakthroughs in their work lives, she finds it particularly rewarding to see them reap benefits in their personal lives as well.

Peg earned her PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Durham, NC.

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