In his memoir Wolf: A Memoir of Love and Atonement, Carter shares his long and sometimes harrowing journey of recovery from PTSD – a journey in which he finally told his wife about his past and embraced her help through his recovery. He also shares the effort it took for him to atone for the damage he caused his family while refusing to face his past.

Carter has written numerous award-winning textbooks in the fields of leadership, management, and organization development, as well as hundreds of related articles. Those textbooks, which included new approaches to consulting and organizational development, are used in colleges and universities across North America.

In the mid 1990s, Carter started the Free Management Library, one of the world’s largest collections of free, online resources about personal, professional and organizational development—a venture that was well ahead of its time. During that period, he also developed a group-based, peer coaching model which was adopted by a wide variety of organizations around the world for a variety of uses. He is co-founder of Authenticity Consulting and Action Learning Source, both of which worked with that peer coaching model. More recently, he founded the Consultants Development Institute, one of the few on-line, self-directed training programs about how to consult to solve complex problems and how to facilitate strategic planning in any type of organization.  

He holds a B.A. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, a B.S. in Computer Science, an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, and a Ph.D.in Human and Organization Development from The Union Institute. The University of St. Thomas awarded Carter the “Business Excellence Award” for volunteering over six hundred hours of community service. Carter also received the “Organization Development Practitioner of the Year” award from the Minnesota Organizational Development Network for his many contributions to the fields of peer coaching, Action Learning, and Organization Development.

Carter maintains a passion for conveying the strong similarities between trauma experienced in domestic violence and in war. He remains committed that recovery depends on highly accessible means for the traumatized to feel safe enough to participate wholeheartedly—authentically—in their own recovery.

He relishes his family, rich conversations, and playful humor. He enjoys his retirement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He and Teri celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in July 2021.