'"Peter W(hitney) Claghorn"' is the founder, president, and CEO of Organizations by Design, an international management consulting firm located in
Calgary,
Alberta. He was born in
1947 in
Princeton, Massachusetts.
Claghorn attended The Holderness School and various colleges before beginning a career of outdoor adventure and education. He has solo kayaked the
Inside Passage along the coast of
British Columbia and the
Alaska Panhandle, kayaked the Fjords and Pacific Coast of
Chile, and canoed the South Nahanni River in the
Nahanni National Park Reserve of the
Northwest Territories of
Canada. He has rock climbed extensively in
New Hampshire,
Minnesota, and
Yosemite,
California. Claghorn Bluffs in the region of
Thunder Bay (Ontario) are named after him. His most notable first ascents, B Flat Minor and Minor Dilemmas, were done seconding for his ex climbing partner, Ken Ryan.
Claghorn was a student at the Hurricane Island
Outward Bound School, and has been an instructor at the Minnesota Outward Bound School and the Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School. Most notably, he was the longtime director of the Enviros Wilderness School for delinquent and emotionally disturbed teens in Calgary, Alberta.
After retiring from Enviros, Claghorn earned a Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) degree from
Pepperdine University and worked internationally with the UMS group as a consultant – primarily in the oil and natural gas field. In 2005 he founded his own consulting firm, Organizations by Design.
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Princeton, Massachusetts History
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Holderness School
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kayaking the Inside Passage
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Chilean Fjords and Pacific Coast
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South Nahanni River
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New Hampshire Rock Climbing
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Minnesota Rock Climbing
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Yosemite Climbing
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Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
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Outward Bound USA
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Enviros Wilderness School
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Pepperdine University Organizational Development
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UMS Group inc.