Colleen Murray Peyton

Colleen is what you get when you combine a rainbow and a lightning rod. Her warm demeanor and high-energy approach make skill-building easy, engaging, and full of A-HA! moments that you didn’t expect but always enjoy and remember. Clients such as NBCU, Novartis, and Vontier are huge fans of her skill-building capabilities and facilitation style.

With deep expertise in creative thinking, leadership training, and storytelling, Colleen inspires FutureThink’s clients to immediately embrace change and reach their potential.

Colleen has designed and facilitated high-energy, humor-filled training programs for global corporations for over a decade. Combining her sales experience in commercial real estate with her experience performing improv and sketch comedy at The Second City, iO Chicago, and The Annoyance Theater in Chicago, Colleen delights in the alchemy of creativity and business. She received her BS in Marketing and Merchandising from the  University of Missouri, Columbia.

She’ll never forget your name and leave you in the dust on Trivia Night—especially if game shows from the ’80s are a category. She lives in Los Angeles with her film-editor husband and magical child, always in pursuit of mastering the art of backyard-to-table cuisine and desserts that light on fire.