Strengths by Design

A Coaching Lab for Sustainable Leadership

Strengths by Design is a 2-hour coaching lab for professionals who want to craft a concrete blueprint that aligns their daily tasks with their deepest talents.

Guided by the integration of CliftonStrengths® and Working Genius®, you'll gain practical tools to audit your energy and begin piloting a plan for more sustainable work.

Friday, April 17 | 1-3 pm CST

You know your strengths—

but do you have a plan to sustain them?

You've taken the assessments. You know your top CliftonStrengths®. You understand your Working Genius® profile. And yet—when you sit down at your desk on Monday morning, that clarity doesn't translate into how you actually structure your work.

The insight is there—but the integration isn't. So you power through, increasingly aware that something about how you're working isn’t lining up the way you want.

Here’s the disconnect — knowing what you're good at and designing your work around it are two very different things.

CliftonStrengths reveals your natural talents—what you're innately good at. The 6 Types of Working Genius shows what actually energizes you – and where you thrive in the project lifecycle.

But without a method for integrating these insights, they remain as interesting data points that don't change your daily reality.

You need the tools to turn your self-awareness into a strategic plan.

Join the Strengths by Design Coaching Lab

Strengths by Design is a 2-hour coaching lab for professionals who want to craft a concrete blueprint that aligns their daily tasks with their deepest talents.

Guided by the integration of CliftonStrengths® and Working Genius®, you'll gain practical tools to audit your energy and begin piloting a plan for more sustainable work.

Friday, April 17 | 1-3 pm CST

—Registration closes Friday, April 10 or when spots fill—

Who is this for?

✔️ You're a leader who feels stretched thin—you want to stop doing everything and select more strategic, strengths-based work.

✔️ You're a high-achiever who's successful but not satisfied—and you're ready to stop hustling your way through work and actually enjoy the process.

✔️ You're in a season of transition—new role, new team, or new chapter—and you want to build your next move on a strengths-based foundation.

✔️ You lead others—and you want to model what strengths-based work actually looks like.

✔️ You're a strengths-based coach or solopreneur—and you'd love a framework that integrates strengths, energy, and design for your own workflow.

What you'll need:

✔️ Both CliftonStrengths and Working Genius assessments completed beforehand (not included in workshop price)

✔️ 1-2 hours of pre-work to reflect on key connections between your profiles

This is an independent coaching program and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Gallup® or The Table Group.

CliftonStrengths® is a registered trademark of Gallup, Inc.

The 6 Types of Working Genius® is a registered trademark of The Table Group.

We’ll use these tools to shape more sustainable, strengths-based work:

The Strengths x Genius Grid

A visual reflection matrix that layers your top CliftonStrengths against the six Working Genius stages, helping you dig into the relationship between your natural talents and your geniuses.

Your Sustainability Statement

A one-two sentence operating script that articulates how you work best.

The Energy & Engagement Audit

A heat map to audit your current tasks and identify what's energizing, what's draining, and where you're operating outside your zone of sustainable productivity.

The Job-Crafting Toolkit

A hands-on set of exercises to experiment with after the workshop, designed to help you make small, actionable changes in your daily work.

★★★★★

Bethany's thoughtful approach created a safe space to reflect deeply on my strengths and passions. She combines energy and enthusiasm for your growth with futuristic, strategic thinking — asking insightful questions that helped me see how my personality and talents connect in ways I hadn't considered.

What sets Bethany apart is her ability to take complex assessment data and turn it into something both practical and personal. I walked away with new inspiration and ideas about how to put my strengths into practice.

-Nicole P., Executive Director

Meet Your Executive Coach

Hi, I'm Bethany, here to guide you through Strengths by Design 👋🏻

I love working with leaders who've taken the assessments—CliftonStrengths, Working Genius—and are ready to go beyond understanding to integrating, to building their work around what the data is telling them.

With a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and years of coaching leaders in strengths-based development, I built Strengths by Design to empower you to articulate and advocate for your most effective way of working. As a certified Gallup Strengths coach and also a certified Working Genius coach, I’m continually learning from these two assessments and their integration.

CliftonStrengths Top 5: Futuristic, Ideation, Relator, Individualization, & Achiever

Working Genius: Invention + Tenacity

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Bethany Peters, PhD., PCC

★★★★★

I’ve been a certified Strengths coach for years, but taking the Working Genius with Bethany provided another dimension I didn't realize I was missing.

The integration of Clifton Strengths + Working Genius gave me a deeper layer of insight into how my natural talents actually translate into a workflow. The energy audit helped me pinpoint specific work that was draining and identify what actually sustains my creative spark. I walked away with practical action steps for how to preserve and replenish my energy.

-Melanie Lehuanani Sickler, Program Manager Lead

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • A Coaching Lab is a fusion of learning, coaching, and growth where research meets real-world leadership.

    It is a reflective, collaborative space designed to slow down and experiment—building awareness, testing ideas, and making new strategies stick.

    We’ll be doing a mix of learning, individual work, and group discussion.

  • No, the workshop cost does not cover cost of assessments. This workshop requires that you've completed both CliftonStrengths and Working Genius assessments prior to starting the pre-work. If you haven't taken these yet, you can purchase them here:

  • Yes. To make the most of our two hours together, you’ll need your top 5 (or All 34) CliftonStrengths report and your Working Genius profile. If you haven’t taken these yet, but would like to, please email me and we can discuss options.

  • You will receive pre-work (approximately 1-2 hours) to organize your CliftonStrengths and Working Genius data before the session—this ensures we can hit the ground running together. After the workshop, you'll have the Job-Crafting Toolkit and your Sustainability Statement to refine on your own timeline.

  • Even if you’ve gained useful insight from the assessments, this lab is all about practical and strategic integration. The goal of this lab is for you to experiment with tools that help you strategically apply the assignment insights.

  • Because this is a collaborative environment designed for real-time insights, I recommend attending live. However, the session will be recorded, and all participants will receive the replay along with the digital Job-Crafting Toolkit to work through at their own pace.

  • This workshop does not include an overview of the CliftonStrengths or Working Genius frameworks, nor will we review individual results... Instead, we focus on the integration and application of your results.

  • During our 2 hours together, we'll discuss the Strengths x Genius Grid and Energy & Engagement Audit. You’ll receive guidelines and examples to design your own Sustainability Statement and you’ll get the Job-Crafting Toolkit to experiment with after the workshop.

  • The Strengths by Design framework is just as powerful—if not more so—for entrepreneurs and independent practitioners.

    When you are your own boss, you have the most agency to "job-craft," but you also face the highest risk of burnout. This Lab helps you build the internal guardrails and a strategic plan to ensure you aren't spending your geniuses in the wrong areas of your business.

  • Yes! This workshop gives you the outside perspective and structured process to do that integration work with your own workflows in mind. Plus going deeper with the assessment tools yourself helps you facilitate them more effectively with clients.

  • For this specific program, there are no refunds, except for exceptional cases such as medical emergencies.

  • Email my team and me at bethany@theleadershipcoachinglab.com and we’d be happy to help.

Kind words from former clients…

  • Bethany is amazing! She is knowledgable, emotionally intelligent, warm and welcoming. Her approach to coaching made me feel comfortable expressing my views, ideas and questions in a way that made me feel safe and respected.

    —Former Group Coaching Client

  • Bethany has seemingly unlimited resources - she always had a toolkit for every topic we brought up or discussed. She is a gem!

    —Former Group Coaching Client

  • The 1-1 coaching allowed me to drill down on personal areas of growth, but then the group setting allowed my individual thoughts and challenges to be shared in a setting and filtered with others. It was a nice balance.

    —Former Group Coaching Client

  • I really appreciated the array of materials we could read, listen to or watch in preparation. I also loved the emails with guided questions or topics ahead of time that allowed us time to think about our answers prior to meeting.

    —Former Group Coaching Client

  • Bethany is an expert coach. She makes her clients feel heard and meets them where they are at on the journey.

    —Former Group Coaching Client

Save Your Spot in the Coaching Lab

Your CliftonStrengths® and Working Genius® results have given you powerful insights.

This 2-hour coaching lab helps you take the next step — integrating that awareness into a practical plan for more sustainable, strengths-aligned work.

Friday, April 17 | 1-3 pm CST

—Registration closes Friday, April 10 or when spots fill—