Peter Godard
Founder & Lead Coach
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
Peter is a queer leadership coach who nurtures people to thrive in life and leadership. His work is an expression of two passions: the joy and possibility of queer magic & liberation for all people.
In addition to his queer coaching practice, Peter is a co-creator of Social Identity Coaching Lab.
About Peter
Peter’s coaching is warm, compassionate, and joyful. He is well suited to working with clients seeking transformation and integration. His work is identity-celebratory, and he supports clients to name issues of identity and power directly.
He also supports clients to connect to the wisdom of emotions and the body, and he is intuitive about what is not said with words. He helps clients feel grounded & celebrated as they try on new possibilities for their lives and leadership.
In addition to his queer coaching practice, Peter is a co-creator of Social Identity Coaching Lab. His work there in service of personal & collective liberation includes equity & leadership coaching, group & team facilitation, and culture shift consulting. In collaboration & co-conspiracy, he nurtures people and organizations to get real about equity.
Resume
Peter is a credentialed coach and a graduate of Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership, one of the top leadership coaching programs in the United States. He has coached hundreds of people, and he coaches and facilitates dozens of groups nationally and internationally each year.
His leadership coaching builds on 15 years of experience as a leader, including in executive roles related to organizational development, strategy, research, technology, data, & operations.
Peter earned a master’s degree from DePaul University focused on organizational development and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.
Self-Definition
Peter is the white descendant of French Canadian and Irish American farmers and teachers. From his ancestors, he inherited an intuitive streak; the ability to grow a delicious tomato; unearned racial, gender, and economic privilege; and a commitment to justice.
As a GenX queer man, Peter’s heart beats most joyfully around people who define themselves on their own terms. Chosen family is important to Peter, and his chosen family is vibrant in the identities and lived experiences it contains.
Peter lives in Chicago, his adopted hometown, with his husband Bob who indulges the deep joy Peter finds in creating new nicknames. He resources himself by co-creating community, a habit modeled by his parents who operated a small-town grocery store where neighbors came and went all day long. He also cultivates joy and community through the outdoors, queer fiction, and experimenting in the kitchen.
