Peter Elam

Co-founder of Diamond Tree. Founder of No Tribe.

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Diamond Tree
01Co-founder

Diamond Tree

The user-friendly, AI-powered training and coaching platform.

Diamond Tree lets teams and coaches create, customize, and deliver training with AI. Build original material or adapt from a catalog of hundreds of ready-made modules, track progress across groups, and run multiple organizations from one place.

No Tribe
02Founder

No Tribe

Connecting leaders worth following.

No Tribe builds ecosystems of trustworthy leaders who are ambitious for impact. It starts small and in person — a few leaders around a dinner table in Washington, D.C. From there, shared events that connect people across organizations, and eventually permanent gathering places, city by city.

Building now
Before this

Before this, I ran an innovation lab at the University of Texas for nine years, building educational technology with a team of 15+ designers and developers.

Digital Media Institute (Univ. of Texas)

I managed a team of 15+ designers and developers that built high-end educational technology products for the University of Texas at Austin.

Lab Director · Product Manager

Environ

An educational game developed by the Digital Media Institute on a $100K innovation grant from the University.

Producer · Game Designer

Virtual Training Environment

A virtual patient project for MD Anderson Cancer Center. This is an interactive simulation to train healthcare professionals.

Co-lead Designer/Developer

Training Web Application for College Instructors

A web application developed to help UT Austin instructors integrate critical thinking instruction into their courses.

Co-lead Designer/Developer

Adaptive Tutoring System

An adaptive math training system that allows students to access various hints and video explanations for the concepts involved.

Sole Designer/Developer

Medical Case Study System

A system through which physicians interact with realistic case studies to learn how to more effectively treat their patients.

Co-lead Designer/Developer

Digital Media Training System

An online training system developed to help UT Austin students learn the fundamentals of digital media production.

Co-lead Designer/Developer

Papercraft Aquarium Game

An interactive aquarium in Unity3D using photographed papercraft items.

Co-lead Designer/Developer

Cosmic Musicbox

An interactive musicbox that displays a 3D hologram as it plays.

Sole Designer/Developer

"The Summer" Documentary

A personal documentary about my summer of 2008.

Creator