Purpose Coach | 1:1 Coaching for Professionals and Creatives Who Want To Make a Difference

Hi! I’m Peter Schulte. I’m a purpose coach.

I help you discover and harness your unique genius so you can make your highest contribution to a more conscious, caring, and creative world.

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Purpose coach. The inner light within one's being — *Discover*

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Feeling unfulfilled, uninspired, stuck, overwhelmed, burned out, lost, or hopeless in your life or career?

Coaching can help you find your way and take meaningful steps along your path

For many of us, just getting by is a struggle. Secure, good-paying jobs are hard to come by. We get stuck in roles that we don’t love and feel like part of the problem. We have so many different responsibilities and relationships pulling us in different directions. We want to show up for our careers, our loved ones, and ourselves, but we don’t know how.

And the world around us feels like it’s on fire: the climate crisis, oppression, rampant greed, war, poverty, authoritarianism, exciting but dangerous new technologies, and more, all amplifying one another. We have an impossible barrage of news, information, opportunities, requests, and tragedies blasted at us every day, always just a few clicks away.

We must go, go, go. We must do more. We must be better. We must achieve the impossible. At least this is what many of us tell ourselves.

We yearn to “be the change.” And yet, it all feels too much. Sometimes it feels like a truly abundant, fulfilling, and peaceful life is forever out of reach.

My promise

I promise you: It does not have to feel this way. It does not have to be so hard.

Through my work as a purpose coach, I can help you learn to cut through the noise so you can focus on what really matters to you and where you can actually make a difference. I can help you nurture your unique gifts and passions, catalyze your inner development journey, and get grounded in a meaningful yet realistic sense of purpose.

You will learn to say “yes” to what truly brings you alive, despite what others might want or expect from you. But you will also get permission and support to say “no” to all the roles, responsibilities, relationships, and ways of being that no longer serve you, needlessly drain your energy, and distract you from your true path.

I can help give you your life back so that you can spend it doing what you are truly here to do in this one precious, fleeting life.

What is a coach? How can we work together?

I call myself a purpose coach. You might also call me a life coach, a career coach, or a leadership coach. Coaches call themselves many things! Ultimately, I’m here to serve as your guide, thought partner, sounding board, mirror, accountability buddy, cheerleader, challenger, and confidant through your greatest professional and creative challenges.

Steps & Processes

I offer many exercises that help you chart your path forward:

Draft a personal purpose statement
Understand your innate essence
Identify & overcome limiting beliefs
Envision your ideal life and career
Set practical, concrete goals

Goals & Outcomes

Ultimately, these processes serve many different vital outcomes:

Plan and sustain a more fulfilling career
Transition into a new role or project
Cultivate authentic, inspiring leadership
Find a lasting sense of peace and balance
Make a real difference for our world

Technical services

In addition to my work as a purpose coach, I can also help entrepreneurs, creatives, and other individuals with the technical elements of their business and projects, including: website design and management, brand design, and search engine optimization.

Get a taste of purpose coaching

I offer one free online coaching call so you can get to know me and experience my coaching – no charge, no strings attached, no sales pitch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Peter’s coaching style

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I don’t have a set coaching system that I am wedded to. The work we do is informed first and foremost by whatever best supports you. You don’t adapt to me and my system. I adapt to you.

What makes great coaching?

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Ultimately, a coach’s core goal should be to get you into reflection about YOU. And this usually happens by letting their own personalities, values, beliefs, etc. take a backseat so that you are front and center.

Coaching vs. therapy: Which is better for me right now?

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While similar to therapy in some ways, coaching is an entirely different modality and might help you tap into different insights or possibilities for your life, especially if you’ve been in therapy for years and want to try something new.

What is coaching?

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Life coaching? Executive coaching? Leadership coaching? Coaching is many different things and can mean different things to different people. It is a huge umbrella under which many disparate practices and modalities can fall. With me, it aims to be a powerful catalyst for personal, creative, or professional fulfillment.

Testimonials from my clients

Peter’s skillful coaching was immensely beneficial and transformative to our team and thus greatly enhanced our collective productivity and happiness. I recommend Peter unconditionally. What a gift he provides!

Michael FeererWhatcom Million Trees Project, Executive Director

I have been privileged to work with multiple coaches throughout my career, so I don’t say this without perspective: Peter is a remarkable coach. He brings a rare balance of deep understanding of human behavior and leadership dynamics, coupled with an empathetic and supportive coaching style.

Maren KeeleyHandprint, Founder

Working with Peter has truly transformed me. From learning better skills to manage the day-to-day challenges of being a small business owner and team leader, to deeper insights into myself as a person with a life outside of the office I’ve developed a better understanding of what makes me, me. Peter is patient, warm, and open, and you can tell that when you’re talking he’s truly listening.

Ian OrthResound Presents, Managing Partner & Chief Creative Officer

I’ve worked with at least five different coaches over the years. I can confidently say that Peter has been in the top tier of my experiences. His reflections back to me of what I’m working through are crystal clear – clearer than I’ve ever experienced with a coach. He’s empathetic and connected in his coaching, but also with a healthy level of challenge of my perspective and invitation to explore other perspectives.

Cameron MillerNon-GMO Project, Chief Executive of Business Strategy & Innovation

I better understand my purpose, my relationship to masculinity, and my role as a leader because of Peter’s coaching. Peter listens deeply, identifying important threads and teasing them out with his thoughtful questions. In one conversation he can patiently hold space for me to explore and tactfully challenge me to probe further. Peter’s support has helped me to cultivate a greater sense of awareness and, ultimately, has facilitated and accelerated my personal and leadership growth journey.

Sam HumphreysPeak Sustainability

My adult life has been a constant struggle with finding balance, maintaining confidence, and repeated cycles of anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, and depression that seriously threatened my career and ability to thrive. Thanks to Peter’s support and coaching, I feel that I finally have the skills and trust in myself to leave that cycle behind once and for all, and move forward in my life with purpose, focus, and a healthy, balanced mindset.

M.R.Environmental leader & artist

In the short four one-hour coaching sessions with Peter, I have had profound breakthroughs that I have spent years in therapy attempting to gain. I really appreciate the openness and non-judgmental coaching style that he provides; it allowed me to really be open to myself to dig deeper into what I didn’t know I was seeking, which was self-love, clarity, and a sense of self-understanding.

Amber LegerMni Sota Fund

About me

For the first decade-plus of my career, I worked at the non-profit sustainability think tank Pacific Institute collaborating with the United Nations and some of the world’s largest companies on sustainability practices for water and climate. I have a BS in Conservation & Resource Studies and BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Presidio Graduate School. I received coaching training through the ICF-accredited Academy for Coaching Excellence, the Mankind Project, and through years of leading teams and managing young professionals.

I’m now the founder & Executive Director of 501c3 nonprofit Spark of Genius. In this role, I edit the weekly Good News For Humankind newsletter, write about personal transformation and social change, and offer purpose coaching. I also co-founded and co-lead Bellingham Men’s Circle.

I live in Bellingham, WA USA on the lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples with my wife Sara, children Owen and Asa, and cat Winnie. I love to sing, play guitar, write songs, and explore the Pacific Northwest and beyond. I’m (slowly) writing a book called Humanity Is Beautiful.

I use either he or they pronouns.

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