Deborah is a Canadian, UK based leadership coach and culture transformation consultant primarily serving firms in the global financial services sector.

Deborah has a unique 16 year background in bulge bracket investment banking (New York and London).   She changed her career path in the late 90s when recognising the impact leadership and culture had on business results and her intuitive sense that the need for services in this area would grow.   She retrained with top coaching schools around the world and continues to deepen and expand her understanding of how individual, ancestral and collective trauma impact leadership and cultures and our relationship with money and the best healing modalities that are needed to heal and re-balance.

Her mission is to help raise the consciousness and effectiveness of leaders with global impact and lasting legacies.   Deborah believes in the benefits that come from engaging employees in meaningful purpose, aligned values and an ongoing mutually supportive, peer learning culture that can withstand global disruptions in our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world.

Deborah has a BA in French and Spanish from Dalhousie University (including 1 year at the University of Geneva) and a Dean’s List MBA from the Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario.  Following her studies she worked as a Research Associate with IMD, Lausanne Switzerland for 2 years.  She then joined Morgan Stanley in New York in corporate finance with a move to London and a change to the capital markets side of the business.  She was able to experience the asset management business when working for Frank Russell and later Oppenheimer (now CIBC).  When she changed careers she joined Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group before founding Centre for Inspired Leadership in 2001.

Deborah is an accredited facilitator for transformation for McKinsey & Company.  She has lived, studied or worked in the US, Canada, Switzerland, France, Spain, Brazil, South Africa and the UK.  She has a passion for languages and is fluent in French and Spanish and has basic Portuguese.  Sample clients include:  Accel, AP Moeller Maersk, Barclays, Bayer Diagnostics, BNP Paribas, BP, CPPIB, Federated Hermes, Helios, JP Morgan, Citibank, ESM, EIB, ibm.com, Lehman Brothers, Lloyds TSB, Lyst, McDonald’s, l’Oreal, Old Mutual, QBE, SABMiller, Save the Children Int’l and 3i.

At this time when there is an urgent need to bring trust back into institutions, Deborah is writing a book Bubble wrapped Betrayal which highlights the impact of our out of balance money system on leaders today along with the need for greater self awareness to hold the compass steady while building purpose led, values driven cultures.  She shows how measuring the values in a culture can provide invaluable information for leaders – to understand the potential and risks of the current cultural environment.  The measurements create the basis for deep dialogue with client leaders to better understand their current reality, the opportunities as seen by the collective wisdom of employees and the greatest levers for change.  She has a passion for helping to manifest these changes.

In her spare time, Deborah enjoys travel, skiing, sailing, tennis, hiking, entertaining, theatre and opera.  She also enjoys connecting cousins in an extended family that is spread over six continents.