About Larry
Lawrence Peers, D.Min. Ed.D., PCC is dedicated to serving and coaching leaders and organizations from a comprehensive and integral perspective. He has coached dozens of leaders and consulted with local, regional and national organizations for over 25 years. He brings an interdisciplinary approach that draws on his experience as a therapist, organizational development consultant, clergy leader, graduate school professor, and director of not-for-profit organizations and programs.
Larry has extensive experience designing coaching and learning experiences for leaders across many faith traditions and not-for-profit settings, and in teaching adaptive leadership and conflict transformation as an adjunct faculty member in graduate school programs. In addition, he has served as Manager of Organizational Learning for a not-for-profit management service organization and most recently as a director of the national Pastoral Excellence Program.
Larry conducts a vibrant leadership coaching practice, retreats for people through different “seasons” of their life and work, incorporating his specialized training in organizational change, leadership coaching, narrative therapy, somatic coaching, psychotherapy, attention/mindfulness training, family systems theory, and spiritual psychology. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified Leadership Circle ® coach and Immunity to Change® and Conflict Dynamics Profile® facilitator. In addition to his master’s degrees in Developmental Clinical Psychology, in Theology and a post-master’s certificate in Counseling Psychology, Larry has doctorate degrees in Congregational Studies (Hartford Seminary) and in Organizational Change (Pepperdine University). Larry is a Strozzi Institute Associate. His clients have included clergy and not-for-profit leaders and organizations including Cigna, Oxfam, Florida United Methodist Foundation and numerous congregations and faith-based organizations and their leaders.
Larry's Certifications in Coaching include;