LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, BY DESIGNWhat if leadership development felt less like a lecture, and more like a lab?
See your leadership more clearly, experiment with new approaches, and turn insight into meaningful change.
Dr. Bethany Peters, PCC
Executive & Team Coach | Leadership Development Consultant
The leadership coaching lab | philosophyFour Principles that Guide the Work
Bring the real work you're navigating, explore it from new angles, and try new approaches—
with a thought partner and practical tools to help you take the next step.
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Start with real challenges.
Bring the actual leadership and team challenges you're navigating into the room.
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See it from a new angle.
Tools and assessments give you opportunity to reframe what you’re experiencing and consider new possibilities.
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Experiment, then reflect.
Put an idea or framework to the test in your actual work. Notice what happens, reflect on what you learn, and use it to shape your next experiment.
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Engage in different ways.
Talk it through. Build something. Reflect on your own. Learn from someone else’s perspective. Different paths to participate, connect, and think.
One Philosophy, Many Ways to Work TogetherWhere would you like to begin?
Executive coaching, team facilitation, courses, and cohorts — all different expressions and mediums to support your leadership development.
Executive Coaching
One-on-one work for leaders ready to see their own patterns clearly.
Learn more →Team Workshops & Facilitation
Custom workshops and facilitated experiences built around what your team needs to do differently.
Learn more →Team Coaching
Ongoing coaching for teams that want to build trust, communicate more openly, and move toward shared goals together.
Learn more →Leadership Courses
Self-guided ways to build the same skills, on your own timeline.
Coming soon!
core tools + assessmentsA toolkit for your leadership development
LEADERSHIP COACHING →
One-on-one support for the leadership challenges you’re navigating right now.
TEAM WORKSHOPS + FACILITATION →
Custom experiences built around what your team needs to understand, work through, or do differently.
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® →
A hands-on way to make thinking visible, explore complex questions, and see new possibilities.
GALLUP CLIFTONSTRENGTHS® →
Understand your strengths and use them more intentionally in the way you lead and work.
MYERS-BRIGGS® →
Explore how your preferences shape the way you communicate, make decisions, and work with others.
THE WORKING GENIUS® →
One-on-one support for the leadership challenges you’re navigating right now.
LEADERSHIP BLOG →
Research, ideas, and practical tools for thinking more deeply about how you lead and develop others.
LEADERSHIP RESOURCES →
Research-informed leadership development tools for leaders and teams.
Meet BethanyI think about leadership development like a learning designer.
My first career was in education, and I’ve spent 20+ years thinking about how people learn, grow, and change.
Today, I bring that lens to my work as an executive coach and leadership facilitator—helping individual leaders see their patterns more clearly and helping teams work through the challenges that matter most.
Whether I’m coaching one leader, designing leadership strategy for an organization, or facilitating a learning experience for an entire team, I start with the people and the challenge in front of us. Then I draw from research, practical frameworks, thoughtful questions, hands-on experiences, and reflection to create the conditions for meaningful learning and change.
Bethany created a transformative learning experience for our team. Through both individual and group coaching sessions, she fostered meaningful reflection, growth, and practical strategies for enhancing our teaching and leadership. Her ability to create a safe and engaging space for dialogue empowered faculty to deepen their understanding and apply it directly to their work.
— Dr. Timothy Young, Program Director“
Common questions
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The Leadership Coaching Lab offers executive coaching, team workshops and facilitation, Coaching Labs and cohorts, and self-paced leadership courses. I also integrate tools such as CliftonStrengths®, Myers-Briggs®, Working Genius, and LEGO® Serious Play® when they fit the goals of the work. Some experiences are one-on-one, some happen with intact teams, and others bring leaders together to learn alongside peers.
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All three. I coach individual leaders, design and facilitate experiences for teams, and partner with organizations on leadership and team development. I also offer cohorts, Coaching Labs, and courses for leaders who want to learn alongside peers or on their own.
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The “Lab” is more than the name—it reflects how I believe leadership develops. We work with real challenges, draw from research and practical frameworks, experiment with new approaches, and reflect on what happens. The goal is to give leaders space to think, try, learn, and adjust so development becomes something they practice in the context of their actual work.
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I start with the people and the challenge rather than a fixed curriculum. From there, I design the experience around what participants need to understand, explore, or do differently. That might include research-based frameworks, assessments, facilitated conversation, reflection, hands-on methods such as LEGO® Serious Play®, or opportunities to practice and experiment with a new approach.
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Learning design is the intentional design of how people encounter, explore, and apply new ideas. My first career was in education, and that background still shapes how I approach executive coaching, team development, and leadership programs today. I think carefully about the questions we ask, the frameworks we use, how people participate, and what will help them carry the learning back into their actual work.
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I work with a range of research-based frameworks and assessment tools, including CliftonStrengths®, Myers-Briggs®, Working Genius, EQ-i 2.0®, and the Intercultural Development Inventory®. I’m also a trained LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator. The tool is never the starting point; I choose methods based on the question we’re exploring and what will be most useful for the leader or team.
your next stepLet’s start with the challenge.
Tell me what you or your team are navigating, and we’ll explore what might help.

