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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.

More Than Words: 12 Visually Rich Books To Inspire Creative Thinking

Discover 12 visually rich and inspiring books that will spark your creativity and help you cultivate a growth mindset. Whether you’re a leader, entrepreneur, or lifelong learner, this carefully curated list offers practical tools, innovative ideas, and fresh perspectives to fuel your personal and professional growth.

This energizing list of books combine thoughtful content with captivating visuals to keep your imagination engaged and your mindset expanding.

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Top 10 Free Resources to Build Your Leadership Skills

Want to become a better leader without spending a dime? In this post, we’ve rounded up 10 top free resources that will actually make a difference.

Whether it’s gaining insights through assessments, learning from world-class leaders via podcasts, or diving into research-backed courses, these tools are designed to challenge your thinking and accelerate your leadership growth. No fluff, just practical resources to help you lead with purpose and make a greater impact.

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5 Must-Reads for Middle Managers

Middle managers often occupy a precarious space between supporting the strategic vision of upper management and directing the daily realities. This can lead to conflicting priorities and the feeling of being squeezed from both sides.

So, how can you rise to the challenge and lead effectively from the middle? We've compiled a list of must-read books that will equip you with strategies to more confidently lead in all directions.

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12 Books to Read in 2024 for Personal & Leadership Growth

Find some new inspiration for your reading list with these titles. Whether you are planning to take the next step in your personal growth or a dedicated leader looking for new strategies, we’ve curated a list of books that will fuel your motivation and stretch you to new levels.

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3 Tools to Develop a Thriving Team

Teams are fragile entities - they can be powerful vehicles for mission achievement, task accomplishment, and relationship building. But unifying and supporting a diverse group of people is a complex and challenging process.

What tools do you need to reduce dysfunction and help your team thrive?

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6 Strategies to Cultivate a Coaching Mindset

Coaching is a powerful vehicle for discovery, growth, and change. A coaching mindset, embodied by a skilled coach or leader, is the context that encourages this journey of growth and change to take place.

A coaching mindset can enhance personal growth through self-coaching and inspire growth in others by maximizing coachable moments.

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How to Recognize & Maximize a Coachable Moment

Every day we experience many possible coaching opportunities in our workplaces, homes, and schools. Taking a coach approach in any given situation is an intentional choice to apply active listening and thoughtful question-asking to strategically support someone’s growth and development. In this post, I share tips to recognize, respond to, and maximize a coachable moment.

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8 Coaching Questions to Inspire Growth & Change

Change and growth don’t happen by accident—they begin with the right questions. Whether you’re coaching a client, leading a team, or reflecting on your own next steps, thoughtful questions can spark clarity and open new possibilities.

In this post, I’m sharing 8 coaching questions designed to inspire meaningful change and lasting growth. Use them to deepen reflection, challenge assumptions, and move forward with confidence.

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3 Tools for Self-Reflection

Points of transition provide us the powerful opportunity to pause and reflect, to consider what’s working and what’s not. Get some fresh insight with three tools to help make your reflection times more meaningful and strategic.

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7 Steps to Less Stress

Unhealthy stress is a major challenge for workplaces, schools, and homes across the world. As leaders, we need proven stress relief strategies to effectively self-manage and to provide support for those around us.

Read on to learn the top research-based strategies to support healthy stress management.

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How Self-Assessment is Key to Developing a Growth Mindset

Cultivating a growth mindset isn’t just about positive thinking—it’s about creating intentional habits that support learning and resilience. Self-assessment offers a practical way to pause, reflect, and see where growth is possible.

In this post, we’ll explore how reflection tools and self-assessment strategies can help you (or your team) strengthen a growth mindset and make meaningful progress toward your goals.

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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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7 Questions to Help You Choose the Best Self-Assessment

Self-assessments play an important role in helping us understand and articulate our uniqueness, gain empathy for our colleagues, family, and friends, and speak a common vocabulary with teammates. The variety of options can be energizing, but it can also be confusing to understand the distinctions, and to know which assessment will help meet your specific needs.

If you are pursuing personal or professional development — for yourself or your team — consult this quick guide to maximize your return on investment.

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6 Tips to Take a Coach Approach

According to recent research conducted by Google, employees desire managers who can skillfully coach them— and this desire ranks as a top rated (no. 1) manager behavior.

What is your capacity for coaching others to greater growth and discovery?

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3 Steps to Strengthen Your Self-Awareness

Despite how valuable it is, we can be easily deceived into thinking our self-awareness is higher than it is. Without pausing for honest, thoughtful self-reflection, we may hold onto a fuzzy, idealistic self-assessment that is either unclear, inaccurate, or both.

How would you rate your self-awareness?

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8 Coaching Questions to Build Your Creative Capacity

Creativity isn’t just an innate talent—you can strengthen it through reflection and intentional practice. In this post, we explore 7 coaching questions to build your creative capacity, helping leaders, teams, and individuals generate new ideas, overcome mental blocks, and approach challenges with curiosity and confidence.

Each question invites you to reflect on your mindset, habits, and opportunities to innovate in your work or personal projects.

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