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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.

Feeling Stuck on a Difficult Decision? These 10 Questions Will Help You Move Forward.

Feeling stuck on a big decision? This post offers 10 powerful coaching questions to help you slow down, reflect, and move forward with clarity and confidence. Each question is grounded in proven decision-making frameworks like WRAP, the OODA Loop, and the Regret Minimization Framework—designed to help you think strategically and choose wisely, even in moments of uncertainty.

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10 Impactful Coaching Questions for Deeper Self-Reflection

In today's fast-paced world, reflection often takes a backseat to the hustle. When was the last time you paused to reflect deeply on how you think, not just what you do? In this post, we'll explore 10 impactful coaching questions that go beyond surface-level thinking, inviting you to examine the beliefs, assumptions, and patterns driving your actions.

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How to Optimize Your Team’s Energy: A Practical Working Genius Exercise

We often focus on managing our time, but what if the real key to sustainable productivity lies in managing your energy? Every task you take on either fuels you or drains you, and the difference between thriving and burning out often comes down to how well you align your work with your natural strengths. In this post, we’ll explore practical strategies for recognizing energy patterns, rebalancing workloads, and using tools like the Working Genius model to make smarter decisions about work.

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10 Best Coaching Questions to Spark a Breakthrough

Push past limitations and open the door to new possibilities with these 10 powerful coaching questions to help break through barriers. Whether you're a coach, a leader, or just someone looking for deeper insights, these questions will inspire clarity, creativity, and actionable steps.

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4 Questions to Build Your Confidence

When you find yourself lacking confidence, this state of lower confidence does not need to define you or derail you. In fact, confidence can be learned, practiced, reset, and refined.

The four questions here provide a simple but streamlined guide to helping you develop stronger confidence for a new task, an unfamiliar situation, an unexpected transition, or a challenging role.

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Mapping Your Path to Personal Growth: Navigating the Five Stages of Boyatzis' Intentional Change Theory

In the pursuit of personal and professional development, understanding what we should expect in a change process, and what can do to facilitate more sustainable change is critical. Intentional Change Theory, established by thought leader Richard Boyatzis, outlines five stages that create a pathway for you to pursue when intentionally seeking to bring about positive transformation in your life.

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7 Ways to Live in Alignment with Your Core Values

When your actions and choices reflect what truly matters to you, you create a life that is authentic and meaningful. However, let’s be honest, living out your core values is simply easier said than done.

But, with some inspiration and a few extra measures of intentionality, it is possible! The key strategies I share here will make your work easier when you are striving to live in greater alignment with your most important values.

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5 Steps to Identify Your Core Values

Values are the broad goals and guiding principles that we want to shape our beliefs, decisions, and actions across contexts and circumstances. Values serve as an internal compass, influencing the way we interact with the world and the people around us. Identifying your values is an essential step in living a purposeful and fulfilling life.

In this blog post, I will explore what values are, why they matter, and how you can identify your own values.

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How to Explain What Coaching is (and what it isn’t)

In my conversations with leaders in various contexts, it is clear that coaching is used as a ‘buzz’ word to describe many behaviors: continuous ‘checking in’ on a person’s progress; giving recommendations and advice; and sharing wisdom from experience.

Perhaps you also view coaching as a fuzzy and hard-to-define concept. How do you differentiate coaching from other similar functions such as consulting or mentoring?

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How to Ask Better Questions

Asking questions is a seemingly simple part of our everyday conversations. However, the types of questions we ask can make a big impact in shaping our perceptions, experiences, and relationships. The topic, type, tone, and timing of our questions definitely matter.

So, what makes some questions better than others?

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4 Research-Based Benefits of Coaching

Coaching isn’t just a feel-good exercise—it’s a research-backed strategy that delivers real results. From improving goal attainment to enhancing self-awareness, coaching helps individuals and leaders unlock potential, strengthen performance, and navigate challenges more effectively.

In this post, learn about four evidence-based benefits of coaching and why integrating coaching into your professional development can make a measurable difference.

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7 Coaching Questions to Inspire Change

Change starts with the right questions.

As a coach or leader, knowing how to guide reflection and spark insight can make all the difference. In this post, we explore 7 powerful coaching questions designed to inspire change, help clients see new perspectives, and take meaningful action toward their goals. Whether you’re working in leadership, executive coaching, or personal development, these questions provide a practical framework for meaningful conversations that lead to real growth.

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