Biography
Donna Peters is an executive coach, lecturer, podcast host, and bestselling author. She is Johnson School class of ’99, as is her husband.
As founder of The Me-Suite, Peters helps career-driven professionals shape the life they want to live. As a former senior partner in management consulting, Peters supported leaders with their greatest challenges for twenty years, mobilizing and motivating teams across geographies and functions. She helmed learning, recruiting, and diversity initiatives across North America.
Peters hosted a top-ranking podcast, The Me-Suite, from 2000-2023 and lectured in the Executive MBA program at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. She is the author of #1 international bestseller Options Are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life and is certified through the International Coaching Federation.
She is a frequent contributor to Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global community. As a professional actor earlier in her career, Peters was a company member at Playmakers Repertory Theatre, appeared in George Lucas’s Radioland Murders, performed her one-woman show, The Hoffman Hotel, way-off Broadway, and played the lead in the premier of Joyce Carol Oates’s Bad Girls. She co-owned a restaurant that won Best of Atlanta with her chef husband and taught English in South Korea. Peters has visited more than forty-five countries, gardens with heirloom seeds, and lifts weights religiously.
She holds an MBA with Distinction from Cornell’s Johnson School, an MFA in acting from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, an executive coaching diploma from Emory University, and a BA from Davidson College. Peters’ core values are curiosity, freedom, and respect. Schedule a consultation with Peters via email: donna.peters@the-me-suite.com.