Peter Dahlin, MS, is a private consultant, based out of Northern California, providing coaching, organizational development, training, and curriculum development services to a variety of organizations throughout the country. He is passionate about integrating creativity and fun in solving organizational challenges. He has created and taught social worker, supervisor, manager, executive, mentor/coach and trainer courses throughout the country and has been a regularly-invited presenter to regional and national conferences.
His training and coaching clients have included multiple State, County and local government agencies throughout the country– as well as in Canada. Although primarily focusing on foster care and child welfare, he’s also worked with engineers, bus drivers, behavioral health providers, and youth probation officers. Peter has worked on several national consulting projects with Casey Family Programs, National CASA and the National Child Welfare Resource Center on Adoption. His primary work with CWDS focuses on leadership development thru coaching, and advanced training. He is the former Director of the Bay Area Academy, and worked for San Francisco County for nearly ten years and served as the Chair for the Annual West Coast Child Welfare Trainer’s Conference for six years.
Peter’s style is energetic and engaging and he infuses appropriate issues of cultural humility and strong “transfer of learning” opportunities throughout all of his trainings and coaching.
His family has volunteered to host high school exchange students for over 16 years and was one of the first families in Butte County to be certified as a Resource Family. Peter and his family has helped to raise twenty teenagers (foster care, kinship care, exchange students), and adopted their son when he was 15. Peter’s interests include gardening, bicycling and spending time with his dogs & cats… and chickens & honeybees—all of which are mutually exclusive activities!
