About Peripet Learning
The problem isn’t your people. It’s the way the work actually gets done.
I’ve spent years working inside organizations where smart people do good work that somehow leads nowhere. It is not because they are unskilled. It is because the way the work gets done is broken. Decisions drag. Ownership is murky. Projects stall under the weight of polite meetings and good intentions.
That is what we fix.
At Peripet Learning, we help businesses cut through the friction and get back to real progress. We believe most work gets wasted chasing unfounded assumptions. Most performance issues are either misdiagnosed or not identified at all. And too many solutions are disconnected from the actual problem.
Training is not always the answer. Neither is another playbook or a long-range plan.
What teams need is clarity. Speed. Direction that sticks. We work side by side with leaders to simplify decisions, connect actions to outcomes, and make sure the solution actually solves something.
Sometimes that means launching something in a week that has been circling for months. Sometimes it means stopping the noise altogether. Every time, it means fixing what is actually broken.
If you are stuck in loops, we can help.
You don’t need more input. You need movement. Let’s fix the work.
Richard Sites, Ed.D.
Founder and Chief Consultant
The Library of Richard Sites

The new Book by Richard Sites
Fix The Work
Fix the Work is a clear, no-fluff guide for anyone tired of watching good people waste time inside broken systems. It explains where things actually go wrong, from misaligned ownership to bloated processes to delayed decisions, and shows you how to get results without getting stuck in training loops, endless meetings, or polite inaction. If you care about doing meaningful work, this book will help you do it faster, with less friction and more impact.

LinkedIn Learning Course
Agile Instructional Design
Hosted by Richard Sites. Learn how to start savvy, document your ideas, prototype course content, build your design, and review your instruction for any missed opportunities. Dr. Sites also shows how to align your current process with SAM and become an effective leader of agile and iterative training and development projects.

ATD BestSeller
Leaving ADDIE for SAM
Co-Authored by Richard Sites. Leaving ADDIE for SAM introduces two new concepts―SAM, the Successive Approximation Model, and the Savvy Start. Together, they incorporate contemporary design and development processes that simplify instructional design and development, yielding more energetic and effective learning experiences.

ATD Bestseller
Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide
Authored by Richard Sites. This companion Field Guide provides the job aids, tools, and templates you need to put the SAM methodology in motion and take your ISD practice to new heights. Complete with a foreword by Michael Allen, this book is an essential resource to create better, faster training products and “move the needle” on current training efforts.

A book for executives
UPTRAIN: An Executive's Guide to Making Powerful Training
In UPTRAIN, Richard Sites, an expert in transforming training into operational excellence, provides a unique and sensible strategy (The Power Formula) that bridges the divide between the executive and the trainer. It's a handbook for business leaders who want to maximize the power of training, improve the performance of their employees, and supercharge the company's bottom line.
Smarter Support for Stretched L&D Teams
We help teams streamline the entire training process so they spend less
time producing content and more time solving the right problems.