Deb is an insightful and gifted leader who brings energy, clarity, connection and light to every engagement. Using 25 years of leadership experience and deep expertise in organization relationships, she serves as an Executive and Team Coach helping navigate pivot points. As a coach, speaker, and facilitator, Deb brings her ability to directly challenge and genuinely support clients as they experience meaningful and measurable growth.
Deb coaches to help leaders experience more wins and joy in their lives.
In her work with emerging through C-suite leaders, she partners to clearly see the present, their newly discovered gifts, and what is possible. With those insights, clients can plan to bridge identified gaps that matter most. Taking action to close gaps can lead to elevated executive presence, smooth transitions into new roles, development of passion, growth of neurodivergent talent, or the building of cohesive teams. In coaching others, Deb uses her keen awareness of differing energy levels within a conversation. She also knows how to leverage relationship system intelligence to effectively communicate with leaders from start-ups through the Fortune 500.
Throughout her leadership journey at premier organizations like NCR, McGladrey, UnitedHealth Group, and Wells Fargo, Deb has successfully led virtual teams to achieve the company’s high-priority goals. She’s built trust, engaged others in collaboration, helped solidify values, vision, and mission by facilitating strategic planning, and created high-performance teams. As a team coach and systems consultant, Deb serves as a collaboration catalyst to tap a team’s wisdom, potential, and energy. That means helping uncover a path to increased retention, higher engagement built on trust, productivity fueled by personal growth, and innovation within a customer-centric culture.
Deb works with clients to customize each engagement to meet specific goals and to identify the best ways to fuel energy that generates action and commitment. Deb’s clients appreciate her expertise in providing an energetic, interactive, collaborative, sometimes playful, and results-based experience. Clients tap personal, business, and people strengths to meet priority objectives, be a top competitor in their industries, and be solidly positioned for the future.
Deb’s certifications and credentials include: MBA (University of St. Thomas), Wharton School of Executive Education, Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation), Organization Relationship Systems Coach (CRR Global), Excellence in Neurodiversity for Coaches (UCONN,) LEAD NOW! (Stewart Leadership), Strategic Visioning & Team Performance (The Groves), Everything DiSC & Five Behaviors of Cohesive Teams (Wiley), Strategy & Culture Alignment (Work Effects), Emotional Intelligence (EQi-MHS), and MBTI (Myers-Briggs)
Deb enjoys time with family, kayaking, traveling, woodland walks, music, and photographing stunning sunsets and Northern Lights. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, Larry, and goldendoodle, Jax.