Beliefs & Values

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​Why do you need a consultant?  Debra can partner with your organization and immediately help you to get key projects done.  She can help you clarify purpose and focus,  set the right priorities, and build the right strategic plan and the organizational design, tools, and processes to measure your success.   She can be trusted to work throughout the organization.   She brings energy and focus to every project. She is your partner. 

Why do you need a leadership coach? Leadership is a practice.  When we intentionally work to develop our strengths and to build awareness of our weaknesses, we become better leaders.  Coaching gives you a safe space to practice and develop new leadership behaviors, to learn more about yourself as a leader and to grow. 

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On Leadership & Team Building

• Leadership can be learned.  
• Great leaders come in all shapes and sizes, but they all care deeply about their people and their organization.  
• All great leaders are learners who always strive to know more...about themselves, about the competition, about how their customers are changing.
  
• The best leaders create great executive teams and a clear mission and vision for the future.

On Strategic Planning

• Strategy is about making the right choices.
  
• It's about knowing your market and your customers, and knowing your capabilities and matching those up with a plan that you can (and will!) implement.
•  Good strategic planning helps you to say no to many competing priorities.  It includes dreaming...but at the end it includes concrete actions that you will do tomorrow. 

On Executive Coaching

• Working with an executive coach gives you a safe space to explore your leadership behaviors, and to set goals. 
• A trusted coach can help you hold yourself accountable for those goals.
•  Linking coaching to strategic planning can be a powerful way to stay on track with your planning.