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;

 

 

 

 

 

 


“Through coaching, Larry Peers guided my thoughts and understanding from confusion to clarity. At the end, it was not his point of view that I could see clearly, but my own.” — A clergy coaching client

“I’ve been facilitating groups and providing executive coaching services for many years (I stopped counting when I hit the twenty-year mark), and I’ve worked with many, many facilitators. Larry is among the best I have seen . . . Thank you for sending this talented man our way! It has been a joy to get to know and work with Larry.” —Karen J. Curnow, MCC Principal, Compass International and Program Manager, The Newfield Network, Inc.

“Larry’s coaching has never been just about management: it has been about helping me to summon my spiritual resources and to ground my authority.” —an Episcopal Priest

“Larry is engaging, personable, authentic, funny/witty and a great communicator. He is visionary and brilliant strategist, able to see patterns and opportunities in organizations and address them. He is not shy, and can get at the point and the heart of the matter with pinpoint accuracy. He is equally adept on a personal, one to one level. He is an excellent coach, and brings his heart to relationships. When I am with him, I feel I am experiencing an expanded worldview. He is inspirational, creative, strategic and practical.” -a colleague

“At first I was unsure about coaching over the phone as I had little experience with it. I found that Larry was able to listen carefully in a way that accurately identified not just what I was saying but the feelings I was portraying as I spoke. Thanks for helping me find the things inside of me that yearned for this new ministry. The outcome for me, couldn’t have been better, and for that I am grateful.” —A clergy coaching client

"Working with Larry has been one of the most important investments I’ve ever made. His deep listening, compassion and wisdom helped me develop as a leade, partner, father and friend." -A client
 

“I have been a congregational rabbi for over 18 years. Larry Peers in particular has a wealth of knowledge and experience with congregations of all kinds and has a real sense of Jewish life and teachings in particular. I was constantly amazed at his comfort with Jewish traditions and the vocabulary of Jewish life. I trusted his advice completely and have often shared it with my congregation who in turn were very appreciative.” — A rabbi clergy coaching client

 


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