Leadership speaking that sparks insight, conversation, & action.
I design research-informed workshops and speaking experiences that invite people to think differently about how they lead, work, and grow.
Every session combines practical leadership insight with reflection, conversation, and interactive learning—so participants leave with more than a few good ideas.
Speaking Topics
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Leadership & Self-Awareness
Help leaders better understand how they lead, where they thrive, and what might need to shift as their roles evolve.
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Strengths & Sustainable Success
Explore how strengths, energy, demands, and resources shape the way people work—and how to build ways of working that are both effective and sustainable.
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Teams & Collaboration
Help teams understand how they work together, navigate differences, communicate more effectively, and make better use of the talent already in the room.
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Interactive LEGO® Serious Play® Experiences
Give participants a different way to think, reflect, and make ideas visible through facilitated hands-on building experiences.
Hi — I'm Dr. Bethany Peters. I bring over two decades of experience in coaching, group facilitation, and leadership development to every speaking engagement.
The best leadership sessions don’t just deliver information. They create moments of recognition, conversation, and discovery.
With more than 20 years in leadership development and a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, I bring research and practical experience together in sessions designed to be highly engaging and immediately useful. Depending on the audience and topic, that might include reflection, discussion, assessment insights, hands-on activities, or LEGO® Serious Play®.
Every engagement is customized to the people in the room and the outcomes you want to create
Featured Sessions
The Burnout Equation
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What Drains Us, What Sustains Us, and How to Reset
A research-informed exploration of the demands that deplete us, the resources that sustain us, and practical ways to create a more sustainable approach to work and leadership.
Strengths by Design
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The Science of Doing Your Best Work: A LEGO® Serious Play® Experience
Move beyond knowing your strengths to understanding how they actually shape your work. Participants explore patterns of talent, energy, and contribution and identify practical ways to work more intentionally.
Build Your Best Work
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Redefining Your Success: A LEGO® Serious Play® Experience
The strengths, habits, and approaches that have contributed to our success aren't always the same ones that will serve us in our next chapter of leadership. Through an interactive LEGO® Serious Play® experience, participants explore what has shaped their success, challenge familiar patterns, and consider what they may need to change—or let go of—to become the leaders they aspire to be.
The Coaching Leader
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Shifting from Control to Curiosity
Explore the shift from solving problems for people to helping people think, develop, and take ownership—with practical coaching skills leaders can begin using immediately.
Beyond Brainstorming
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Creative Tools for Collaborative Problem-Solving
This interactive session introduces practical, creative approaches that help teams see challenges differently, generate more possibilities, and move toward stronger solutions.
Leadership by Design
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The Architecture of Leadership Identity
Explore how values, experiences, beliefs, and intentional choices shape our leadership identity—and how we can become more deliberate architects of the leaders we're becoming.
Bringing Humanity to High-Pressure Workplaces
Exploring what people-first leadership looks like in demanding, results-driven environments where efficiency, productivity, and performance often take precedence over the human experience of work.
The Leadership Growth Paradox
Growth often requires leaders to step into the very experiences they instinctively resist. Explore how the brain responds to uncertainty, challenge, and discomfort—and how leaders can develop the awareness and capacity to navigate these experiences as opportunities for learning, adaptability, and growth.
Practices for Greater Clarity, Awareness, and Impact
Discover how intentional reflection can become a powerful leadership practice. Explore practical strategies for making sense of experiences, challenging assumptions, recognizing patterns, and translating everyday learning into greater self-awareness, sound judgment, and more intentional leadership.
Rethinking Leadership Development
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Small Practices, Big Shifts
Explore how microdosing development with small behavioral experiments, deliberate practice, and everyday learning experiences can create meaningful leadership growth over time.
People-First Leadership
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The Neuroscience of Discomfort
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The Reflective Leader
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Featured Conversations
LEADERSHIP: THE SECRET SAUCE
Season 4, Episode 7: Developing Leaders with a Coaching Mindset
Explore how a coaching mindset—grounded in curiosity, care, and powerful questions—can transform the way leaders listen, connect, and lead.
LEADING TOMORROW
The Coach Approach to Next Gen Leadership
Listen in on this conversation about using a coaching approach to mentor and develop the next generation—helping young people reflect, grow, and take greater ownership of their development.
LEADING TOMORROW
Episode 52: December 01, 2021: Multicultural Leadership
Get practical tips for developing cultural competence as a leader and creating more inclusive, effective multicultural teams.
Bring Bethany to your organization or event.
Whether you’re planning a conference, leadership program, professional development event, or team experience, we can design a session around the people in the room and what you want them to walk away thinking, doing, or seeing differently.