Peter Anderson, PhD PCC, is an executive leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in higher education, specializing in strategies for wiseminded leadership. In 2019, Peter abruptly confronted the consequences of unhealthy work habits and an unaligned professional life and, facing serious burnout, he left his position as full Professor of Classics and a very successful national and international career in higher education. His conviction that good, careful inner work can make lives better and more fulfilling have been at the core of his efforts to point people and organizations in the right direction.

Peter retrained as an executive and leadership coach in 2019-2020 and holds several credentials in that field. Building on his skills as a multi-partial dialogue facilitator and training in non-violent communication, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence, his firm Inner Citadel Consulting now helps individuals and teams in technical knowledge industries to increase effectiveness, reduce conflict, promote inclusion & prosocial behaviors, and build healthy relationships through dialogue strategies and human skills. Peter’s long personal practice in mindfulness is supplemented by research in emotional intelligence, leadership & science-backed mindfulness based interventions.

A dynamic and national award-winning teacher, Peter also offers group workshops, emotional intelligence development programming, mindfulness training workshops. Inner Citadel Consulting partners with Genos International and LINC to provide assessments and training programs that build human skills for our human-centered workplaces. ICC’s exciting new collaboration (spring 2026) with the Institute for Organizational Science and Mind, the Mindful Campus Compact, aims to bring neural skills training for wellbeing and productivity to Student Affairs teams and students nationally.

Peter holds the PCC certification with the International Coaching Federation and trained with the globally recognized Center for Executive Coaching. He works on the board of ICF New England, ATD Vermont, and All Brains Belong VT.