Over the past 15 years I’ve worked with mission-driven teams to launch and scale initiatives that bring mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and compassionate leadership into education, business, and public institutions.
These efforts have reached hundreds of thousands of participants across dozens of countries through scalable training programs and global networks of facilitators.
Peter Bonanno, Ed.M.
I specialize in helping early-stage initiatives grow from powerful ideas into scalable programs.
My work often includes:
Designing flagship learning programs and curricula
Creating certification and teacher training systems
Building scalable delivery models
Developing mission, messaging, and program strategy
Supporting partnerships, fundraising, and research
Sometimes I serve as a founding team member.
Sometimes I come in as a consultant helping organizations launch their next phase of growth.
Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
Scaling mindfulness and emotional intelligence globally.
Designed and launch the teacher training model that enabled the Search Inside Yourself program—originally developed at Google—to grow into a global leadership institute. Today a network of more than 1,000 trained teachers deliver programs in over 40 countries, and have reached more than 500,000 participants.
Bhutan Ministry of Education
Collaborated with Bhutanese Ministry of Education to bring mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs to all 10,000 of the country’s primary and secondary school teachers, by training and certifying 120 Bhutanese trainers.
United Nations
Bringing mindfulness-based resilience to UN workers.
Designed and taught Peace on Purpose training, bringing mindfulness-based resilience and well-being skills to all levels of United Nations staff.
Center for Compassionate Leadership
Designed and launched the organization’s first facilitator certification program, training an international cohort of leaders now bringing compassionate leadership practices to healthcare systems, education networks, and public institutions.
The Thich Nhat Hanh School of Interbeing
Advisor for innovative educational model integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and nature into the culture of a whole K-8 school – and serving as a living laboratory that allows others to replicate the School’s curriculum and practices.
Bridge of Hope Summit
Organized “Bridge of Hope 2025,” a free global online summit for humanitarian workers facing disruption.
Moderated conversations and interviews on the topics of resilience, purpose, and reimagining the future of humanitarian work with 13 leaders in the humanitarian space for 250+ registrants from 39 countries.
Simple Habit
Recorded original meditation content for Simple Habit app, played over 500,000 times by listeners.
Balance
Created innovative interactive meditation concept for mindfulness app Balance. Balance won Google Play's Best App of 2021.