Deborah partners withinnovative high potentials and talent managers to identify and develop the full range of their diverse potential, both personally and professionally. She particularly enjoys strategy, operations, and problem-solving for results.
She has helped mid-level managers obtain recognition for their achievements (e.g. establishing Centers of Excellence); executives take on higher-level challenges and better manage their teams; leaders grow existing businesses and create new ones, partner-level executives step with confidence into the roles they were hired for. Applying creativity and intuition grounded in solid business experience, Deborah helps individuals and organizations reach beyond the ordinary to embrace their unique talents, abilities and experience. She specializes in helping her clients understand how to leverage what is unique about them in the work they do. Of particular interest is helping corporations identify, understand, and become more successful in working with the unrecognized or under-developed innovators and thought leaders in their midst. She is known for tackling difficult personal issues directly, but with compassionate wisdom born of deep experience.
With a background in B2B IT marketing (both hardware and software), publishing, manufacturing, transit, FMCG, the sciences, and the arts, Deborah brings both cross-industry and cross-cultural perspectives to her work. She is known for being a resourceful idea generator who also serves as a thinking partner to individuals, groups, and teams.
Deborah received a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She holds a PCC (Professional Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation, trained as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with the Coaches Training Institute, is a certified practitioner of the Innovation Strengths Preferences Institute® (ISPI™), and has additional certifications in Shadow Coaching and Body-Centered Coaching.
Private clients have included mid- and senior-level executives from companies such as American Express, Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, Silicon Graphics, London School of Economics, General Dynamics, SunTory, Philips, Pfizer, and the US Federal Government. They have been native to countries around the world including Japan, Korea, Israel, England, Sweden, Trinidad, Ghana, Canada, UAE, and USA.
