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Shannon Peters, Ph.D., LPC

Director

Dr. Shannon Peters is the Director of Organizational Development and Training (OD&T) at TATC Consulting.  She has more than 15 years of experience in adult learning and organizational development consulting in the federal, state, and local sectors and private industry. She is an accomplished project manager, strategic planner, executive coach, team facilitator, curriculum designer, facilitator, and trainer.  In her leadership roles with both The George Washington University and TATC, Dr. Peters has led many leadership development, coaching, and training programs and provided technical guidance and oversight to build and maintain high performing and resilient organizations, teams, and individuals.

Dr. Peters specializes in being a catalyst for organizational change, personal transformation, and effective communication in order to help organizations reach their full performance potential. Her organizational development services include leadership development, coaching, team development and team performance strategies, meeting facilitation, process consultation, change management, diversity management and inclusion, and disability management.  Her work focuses on maximizing strengths and building positive leaders, teams, and organizations. 

A specialty of Dr. Peters is leadership coaching using a resiliency model. Her leadership coaching focus area has included performance coaching to meet specific agency results, personal coaching to help achieve life balance and perspective, skill training in specific areas (i.e., conflict management, technical skills, interpersonal skills), succession planning, helping with managing transitions, and finding new vision and strategy planning. Dr. Peters has experience using a suite of 360 leadership assessment tools and other psychometric instruments with her coaching clients.

Dr. Peters is also one of four certified master trainers on personal resiliency in the United States from the University of Pennsylvania.  She has worked with the University of Pennsylvania for 12 years training on resilience and positive psychology topics.  This work has included delivering training and coaching programs to all levels of leadership and staff in a number of setting including the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Rehabilitation Services Administration, the Governments of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the U.S. Army.  She is currently working with the University of Pennsylvania to provide resilience training for the U.S. Army, the first training of its kind in the military designed to improve leadership and performance in combat and head off the mental health problems. 

Dr. Peters has experience working with work teams that are semi-autonomous units with assignments to produce high-quality results in a timely fashion. She works with the teams as a group and as individual members of the group to decide how to tackle the assignment, seek imaginative solutions, assign work, implement decisions, conduct long-term planning, measure performance, and manage disagreements and group relationships. Coaching goals in this area have included challenging individuals and work teams to take more ownership of what is possible within their organizations, training individuals and work teams with high-performance skills, and training others to be self-motivated with their own visions and sense of purpose.

Dr. Peters also keeps up with the most recent trends in coaching and counseling as a member of The George Washington University, Counseling, Human and Organizational Development Department where she instructs Career Counseling, Theories of Counseling, Interview Skills, and Substance Abuse. She is also adjunct faculty at The Brookings Institute where she designs and delivers Executive Education and Women’s Leadership programs. 

Dr. Peters earned her Ph.D. in Counseling/Human and Organizational Studies from The George Washington University, her M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Boston College, and her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from The George Washington University.  She is certified to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a suite of 360 degree leadership assessment tools, and numerous other psychometric instruments. She presents regularly at national conferences, such as the Excellence in Government Conference and the Training Officer’s Annual Institute.

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