Frederica Peterson
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & EXECUTIVE COACH
Leadership Development That Changes How Your Leaders Lead
I partner with organizations to develop leaders who ask better questions, build trust, and create environments for high performance. Through tailored programs, executive coaching, and facilitation, your leaders gain practical tools they use the very next day.
In The News
Quoted in Forbes Advisor
10 Management Styles of Effective Leaders
Before leaders change how they lead, they need to understand themselves. In this Forbes Advisor feature, Frederica shares why lasting change starts with knowing what you’re striving to accomplish and developing “a keen self-awareness of how others perceive you.” Read the Article
The Challenge:
Are Your Leaders Limiting What Their Teams Can Become?
Most senior leaders rose because they were the experts with the answers. Over time, that same habit becomes the bottleneck. When leaders rely on answers instead of inquiry, they limit their own capacity and the capacity of everyone around them.
Let's talk if your senior leaders are facing these challenges
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Leaders who feel pressure to have all the answers
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Managers of managers who are stretched thin doing instead of developing
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Teams that rely on the leader rather than owning decisions and results
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A shallow bench for future C-suite roles, leaving rising leaders unsure of their path and more likely to look elsewhere
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A culture where questions are rare and assumptions go unchallenged
Leadership today requires more than answers. It requires better questions.
Ways we can partner
Every organization is different. Every engagement is tailored to your goals, your culture, and your people.
Leadership Development Programs
Cohort-based Inquisitive Leadership training that equips managers and executives with a practical, repeatable model for leading with curiosity, connection, and trust. Delivered in person, virtually, or in a blended format, anywhere in the world.
→ Inquisitive Leadership Training
Lead at the NEXT LEVEL
One-on-one and executive team coaching for leaders ready to expand their influence and impact. As an ICF Certified Coach with hundreds of coaching hours, I help leaders gain the self-awareness and clarity to lead at their next level.
Team Effectiveness
Using Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors®, I help teams understand how they work, build trust, and turn friction into productive collaboration.
→ Everything DiSC · The Five Behaviors
Keynotes and Facilitation
Engaging, interactive sessions for conferences, leadership retreats, and association events that leave audiences with insights they can act on immediately.
I have partnered with some of the leading organizations in the country. Would you like to be included in this powerful lineup?
My Approach To Your Success
Curiosity First. Solutions Built Together.
I practice what I teach.
Every engagement begins with inquiry: understanding your leaders, your culture, and the real issues beneath the surface before recommending anything. From there, we partner to design a solution that fits your organization, not a one-size-fits-all program.
That work is grounded in The CAPPP Advantage™ Performance Model, the framework at the heart of my bestselling book Inquisitive Leadership. It gives leaders a practical path for replacing assumption with curiosity, control with connection, and hierarchy with trust.
Building Connection & Rapport → Assessing the Team → Valuing People → Understanding Purpose → Cultivating Performance
The result? Leaders who expand their capacity, and teams that are more engaged, more innovative, and built to perform.
Impact:
What Changes When Leaders Lead With Inquiry?
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Leaders expand their capacity. Senior leaders stop carrying every decision and start developing the people around them, freeing time for strategy and growth.
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Teams take ownership. When leaders ask instead of tell, teams think for themselves, contribute ideas, and own their results.
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The bench gets stronger. Rising leaders get the room to grow, building a pipeline ready for the next level of leadership.
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People stay. Employees who feel seen, heard, and valued are more engaged and more likely to build their future with your organization.
Testimonials
My down-to-earth communication style immediately resonates with participants. I skillfully encouraged openness and involvement, creating a highly interactive and impactful learning environment.
Working Together:
Getting Started Is Simple
1. Let’s talk. Book a complimentary 30-minute consultation. Come with your heaviest leadership challenges and you’ll leave with perspectives that can help shift your current narrative.
2. We design together. I’ll learn about your goals, your culture, and your people, then recommend a tailored approach.
3. Your leaders grow. We launch, measure what matters, and adjust along the way so the impact lasts.
Meet Frederica
Frederica A. Peterson is a leadership consultant, ICF certified executive coach, and 2X bestselling author who has spent over two decades helping leaders at some of the world’s most recognized organizations, from NASA and the NBA to CNN, Facebook, and Accenture, unlock their potential and drive meaningful cultural change.
Before founding Frederica Peterson Consulting in 2015, she spent 30 years in corporate leadership at Verizon and KPMG, leading large teams and managing leadership development programs from the C-Suite to front-line managers. She is an AMA faculty member and holds an MA in Organizational Behavior.
