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Dr. Bethany Peters, PCC
With over 20 years of experience in leadership development and a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, I take a coach approach to help leaders and teams thrive. As an expert thought partner, I facilitate clarity, inspire creative thinking, and help growth-minded professionals overcome barriers to make meaningful progress.
How LEGO® Serious Play® Can Deepen Leadership Development
Explore how LEGO® Serious Play® can help leaders make their thinking visible, reflect on complex challenges, and experiment with new possibilities.
Introverts and Extraverts at Work: What the Difference Means for Your Team
Beyond the typical stereotypes, explore how introversion and extraversion preferences can shape meetings, idea generation, collaboration, leadership, and the ways people contribute on a team.
40 Coaching Questions to Ask About Your CliftonStrengths Results
Taking the CliftonStrengths assessment is only the beginning. These 40 coaching questions will help you go deeper with your results, notice patterns and blind spots, and think about how to use your strengths more intentionally at work and in leadership.
Why Teams Misunderstand Each Other Even When Everyone Is Working Hard
Why do hardworking teams still misunderstand each other? Learn how Working Genius can reveal hidden differences in how people communicate, contribute, and approach work.
Why Leadership Development Fades After the Workshop
A great leadership workshop can create powerful insights. But insight isn’t the same as behavior change. Here’s why leadership development often fades once leaders return to work—and what helps new ways of leading actually stick.
Working Genius®, CliftonStrengths®, MBTI®, Enneagram, or LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®: Which Team Assessment Fits Your Team?
Compare five popular team assessment tools and learn when to use Working Genius®, CliftonStrengths®, MBTI®, Enneagram, or LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.
How to Turn Team Assessment Results Into Lasting Change
Your team completed an assessment. Now what? Learn a five-step process for turning team assessment results into meaningful, lasting change.
How LEGO® Serious Play Helps Teams Have Better Strategic Conversations
Most strategic team conversations don't get where they need to go. The loudest voices dominate, the quieter ones stay quiet, and important insights get lost between meetings. LEGO® Serious Play offers a different path — one that turns strategic conversations into shared understanding your team can actually act on. Here's how it works, why the research supports it, and when it's the right method for your team.
Why Team Training Doesn't Always Create Lasting Team Development
Team training sessions are common, but they rarely create lasting change. Here's the difference between team training and team development — and what sticks.
How to Start Job Crafting: 5 Coaching Questions to Redesign Your Role
What part of your work would you reshape if you could?
Job crafting is the research-backed practice of redesigning your current role, its tasks, relationships, and meaning, to fit your strengths and energy more closely; no new job required.
Here are five coaching questions and job crafting examples, to help you start redesigning the role you already have.
The Idea Implementation Gap: Why Teams Struggle to Execute
Your team isn't short on ideas. If anything, you have too many — sticky notes from last quarter's offsite, shared docs full of unfinished initiatives, promising directions that quietly disappear before they're road-ready. The pattern has a name: the idea implementation gap.
It's the space where creative energy stalls before becoming completed results, and it's one of the most common reasons capable teams underperform. Discover three hidden causes behind stalled ideas, a simple diagnostic to identify where your team gets stuck, and ten coaching questions to help you close the gap.
How Your CliftonStrengths Domain Shapes Your Leadership Style (Plus Coaching Questions for Each)
Every leader brings a different kind of energy to their team. Some lead by getting things done. Others lead by rallying people, building deep connections, or thinking strategically about what's next.
the four CliftonStrengths dominant domains can help you identify your natural leadership pattern — and these coaching questions will help you apply that awareness with greater intention.
12 Coaching Questions for a Strategic Leadership Reset
Feeling stretched thin in your leadership role? Sometimes the best way to move forward is to pause, reflect, and reset.
These 12 coaching questions are designed to help strategic leaders clarify priorities, uncover blind spots, and refocus on what truly drives impact. Use them as a structured reset to make smarter decisions, strengthen your team, and lead with confidence.
CliftonStrengths vs. Working Genius: The Best Way to Use Them Together
While CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) uncovers your deep-seated talents and "internal wiring," Working Genius identifies exactly where you thrive in the stages of a project.
In this thoughtful comparison, we’ll break down the core similarities and differences between these two powerful assessments and show you the best ways to use them together.
5 Types of Journaling When You Don't Know Where to Start
You know journaling could help—you've read the research, heard the recommendations, maybe you’ve even bought the perfect journal. But when you sit down with that blank page, you freeze up. Or despite getting started, you just can’t stay motivated to stick with it.
In this post, we will cover five distinct approaches to journaling and when to apply each type, with example prompts for each.
The Science Behind Self-Reflection: What Happens in Your Brain When You Journal
What if 15 minutes of writing could quiet your overactive mind, help you make sense of difficult experiences, and free up mental space you didn't know you were losing?
Research shows that expressive writing engages three distinct brain processes. Discover the science-backed three-step process, why processing hard emotions builds resilience, and a practical protocol you can start using today.
Swap your New Year's Resolution for a Strategic Reset (With these 6 Coaching Questions)
Most New Year's resolutions fail by February—not because you lack willpower, but because resolutions are designed to fail. The word itself implies a binary contract: keep it or break it…
Discover why the science supports resets over resolutions—plus 6 coaching questions to design your own.
The Subtle Stressors Undermining Your Leadership Stability (and 10 Coaching Questions to Help You Recenter)
From adrenaline-driven hustle to blurred boundaries, subtle stressors can quietly erode your focus, values, and sense of purpose. This guide walks you through 10 common leadership stressors and offers practical coaching questions to help you recenter, regain energy, and lead with clarity and intention.
The Quiet Questions That Shape Resilient Leadership
Leadership comes with constant pressures: endless decisions, competing priorities, and a nonstop flow of urgent demands. Yet research shows that the most resilient leaders are those who intentionally cultivate their inner life—the practices that allow them to pause, reflect, and act with clarity.
In this post, we introduce nine compelling questions that help leaders assess where they are, where they may be stretched too thin, and how they can begin to lead from a place of alignment, focus, and sustainable impact.
Why You Need a Strategic Solo Leadership Retreat (and 3 Coaching Exercises to Do When You Get There)
Your best decisions don’t happen in the chaos of your inbox—they happen in quiet, intentional reflection. A solo leadership retreat gives you the space to think deeply, gain perspective, and return to work sharper, clearer, and more aligned. This post walks you through why it matters and how to structure your retreat for impact.
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