A memoir of grief and leadership
The hardest road he ever walked made him a better leader
Six weeks after losing his wife to cancer, Peter Rice walked the Camino de Santiago with his two young sons. What began as survival became a new understanding of leadership.
What it is about
A raw and human story about the year everything changed
Break or Become is not another leadership book built on business theory. Step by step, across mountains and villages and long empty stretches of road, Peter found that the hardest moments do not only test us. They remake us.
Three miles of the road
What readers take away
Endurance over control
Real leadership is not about titles or authority. It is what you carry, and how you keep moving, when everything is hard.
Presence in grief
How to stay present for the people who depend on you, at work and at home, while grieving in private.
Humility on hard roads
Why the best lessons come from your worst year, and how faith and family can be tested and deepened by loss.
The hardest moments do not only test us. They remake us.
From Break or Become
From the road
The Camino, one step at a time
Photos from the walk to Santiago, from foggy first mornings to the last kilometer.
About Peter
A sitting CEO who lived his argument the hard way
Peter Rice is President and CEO of Hanscom Federal Credit Union, a 1.8 billion dollar institution. He holds a master's in finance from Harvard and testified before the Senate Banking Committee as the sole credit union representative. He wrote this book after walking the Camino de Santiago with his two young sons, one of whom has a disability.
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