Meet Peter Brussard
Peter Brussard is a software executive with more than 25 years of experience leading and scaling software businesses. He is recognized for his ability to align teams around clear priorities, apply data-driven decision-making, and build high-performing organizations that deliver sustained commercial results.
Peter spent the last four years as president of Bridge, a software company dedicated to changing organizations through the power of employee development. He is now the president of the AI in Nursing venture at The Health Management Academy.
In the last five years, Peter has ensured AI-driven innovation across multiple products, including features that leveraged sentiment extraction, natural language processing (NLP), topic modeling (LDA), generative LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture, AI translation and adaptive prompt modeling.
Peter is also a husband and a father. When he’s working, you can find Peter spending time with his wife and two daughters in the Pacific Northwest.
Peter’s career drivers are results, collaboration, trust, leadership and mentorship.
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} Speaking engagements
Peter Brussard is an international keynote speaker recognized for his ability to connect business strategy with technical execution. He offers a disciplined, experience-based perspective on building effective products and high-performing organizations in a rapidly changing world.
Presentation Topics Include:
- Building resilience in organizations
- AI first thinking and implementation
- Intentional cutlture
- From agile to AI - business management in a new world
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} Thought leadership
Even well-functioning organizations can underperform when alignment, clarity, and strategic focus are lacking. Over time, this manifests as reactive decision-making and fragmented execution.
Peter Brussard brings a disciplined, practical approach to helping leadership teams align around shared priorities, improve organizational cohesion, and build cultures that support sustained performance, adaptability, and long-term value creation.
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} Mentorship & board advisory
Sustained performance at scale requires clear priorities, aligned teams, and disciplined execution - conditions that can erode over time without deliberate leadership.
Peter Brussard works with executives and boards, including those in private equity–backed environments, to address these challenges, strengthen organizational alignment, and enable leadership teams to operate with greater clarity, cohesion, and effectiveness.
Peter in the press
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Peter currently serves as the President of the AI Nursing Venture at the Health Management Academy.
Before that, Peter has been in executive roles at seven technology companies, six of which went under a successful liquidity event during his tenure. (Nobody bought Microsoft — yet.)
President (2025 - present)
President and Managing Director
SVP, Technology & Product Management
Instructure (2018 - 2021)
Senior Vice President, Product & Engineering
Rosetta Stone (2013 - 2017)
Senior Director of Product & Engineering
Livemocha (2012 - 2013)
Director of Product Management
DataSphere Technologies (2009 - 2012)
Director of Product Management
SecondSpace (2007 - 2009)
Senior Group Product Manager
Microsoft (1999 - 2007)
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Reading
“The Curious Advantage” by Vas Narasimhan
Preparing
For the next HR conference in August.
Writing
“Cultivating Corporate Culture”