Meet Deborah

I’m an executive coach focusing on leadership. For some time now I’ve worked with gifted outliers: people who bring an important voice into conversations, particularly conversations around transition and change, which more recently has included diversity and inclusivity.

Many of the gifted outliers I know have felt like an outsider for most of their lives. Some have come to terms with it better than others, and have therefore been more effective. But always I’ve found an important piece of the conversation they are part of that gets lost or left out if their voices are not heard, recognized, valued. And because they are different, that is too often the case.

For me, it’s about leadership and diversity of thought, to stimulate innovation and new ways of thinking. It’s about recognizing, valuing, and using – to the best and highest good of all – that spark of true intelligence that too often goes unnoticed or unappreciated, because it looks or sounds different.

A big piece of the work I do is around self-reflection, self-discovery, and self-awareness at the deepest levels you are capable of and willing to go to. I often offer clients resources to find solutions to the mysteries of life. Because one thing I’ve learned is that we can’t fully be who we are capable of being if we haven’t looked inside.

I came to do this work with my clients because I realized over the years:

first, how much of an outsider I always felt myself to be;
second, some of the elements about who I am and how I look at the world that contributed to me feeling that way;
third, the very real and tangible gifts that my difference brought both to me and to others around me, when I learned how to be comfortable with and communicate accurately about them.

I offer them to others, that they may come to understand the unique and powerful resource that they, too, can be.