ABOUT

DEBORAH

How do we become extraordinary people, leaders, and members of society?

How do we fulfill our purpose?

How can we lead lives that are meaningful and impactful?

Deborah has spent a lifetime asking herself and others how this shows up in their personal lives, professional and leadership development, and social change.

WHAT I DO

As CEO & Founder of Human Being Human LLC, Deborah provides coaching and advisory support to people seeking to elevate themselves, their teams, or their organizations for greater impact. She’s an expert on realizing purpose and supports clients in understanding how to integrate purpose into their home life and workspace. She works with individuals seeking to strengthen their skills and confidence and with people seeking to reimagine a life lived with purpose and meaning that are aligned with their values.

WHERE I’VE BEEN

Before she became a coach, Deborah spent over twenty-five years providing finance, operations, revenue cycle management, process improvement, and project management in the healthcare sector. Along her journey, she became a writer and the author of a book called The Hoppernots. She also pushed herself outside of her comfort zone through adventures and self-inquiry that opened her mind, faced a few fears, and broadened her perception of what life can be when unleashed. Now, she help individuals create growth, transformation, and leadership through coaching by providing tools and strategies on the role of personal and professional leadership.

WHY I DO WHAT I DO

Learning to lead at work made her reflect on how to lead her life. What does it mean to be a leader in life? It has to be more than what you do for an employer or what we expect from politicians, business, and spiritual leaders. This question forced her to examine how she made choices, why she held herself back, and the obstacles that humbled and strengthened her. She looked at how she communicated, the importance of being silent, and the gift of listening. But what made her step into transforming her life is the silent mantra of discontent in how she experienced daily life.

The other shift in her mindset was when she experienced significant losses within a short period. Her two best friends died separately and unexpectedly. Her sweet pug crossed the rainbow bridge, her husband’s decades-long mystery illness finally had a name, and she became ill, healed, and got sick again. Death and illness have a way of waking you up.

Deborah grew tired of living small, so on her 38th birthday, she decided to go trapeze flying to kickstart her new path and vision of herself. Her adventurous spirit grew so big that she has since jumped out of planes, walked on fire, sat in the revealing heat of a sweat lodge ceremony, found wisdom through a vision quest, traipsed through Ecuador looking for frogs, and redefined what it means to live this life as a human…being human.

During the pandemic, she looked at her life, what she’s accomplished, and what she wanted to achieve and experience in the future. From this reflection, she took a leap of faith, betting on herself, her potential, and her possibilities.

LEADERSHIP & TRANSFORMATION

With the changing face of work, Deborah decided to use what she’s learned to help new, emerging, and existing leaders find their way to confidence and establish who they are as leaders.

Coming from a healthcare background, Deborah watched firsthand the crisis experienced by our healthcare workers–societies healers–and she chose to step into a space to help those transitioning from clinicians to physician & nurse leaders. To help them rise as the leaders the healthcare system and its patients desperately need in this evolving and complex world.

Leadership is a crucial aspect of personal and professional success, and transformation is an inherent part of personal growth. Through deep self-reflection and powerful coaching techniques, the possibilities of uncovering limiting beliefs, fears, and patterns that hinder your progress are endless and powerful. By replacing them with empowering beliefs and habits, you will experience a profound transformation that aligns with your true self and desired outcomes.s

Deborah believes in personal leadership, which leads to personal mastery. Understanding who you are, what you want and need, clarifying your vision, and developing self-discipline through goal setting and being accountable for achieving them takes time. No matter what goal or aspiration you have, attaining them takes identifying your values, strengths, challenges, principles, and breaking through fears that hold you in place.

Giving yourself the gift of delving into yourself can help you take charge of your life, responsibilities, and desires.

This is the source of personal transformation and mastery.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Southern New Hampshire University, Summa Cum Laude
Masters of Science in Psychology, Southern New Hampshire University, Summa Cum Laude

Certification & Training

Brave Conversations Facilitator Masterclass, Brave Conversations with Dr. William T. Lewis, Sr.
Coach Practitioner, GoMaster Coach
Dare To Lead Trained, Brene Brown
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate, University of South Florida, Muma College of Business
EQ-i and EQ-360 Certification, College of Executive Coaching
Human Rights Consultant, US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights
#IamRemarkable Facilitator (Google Initiative)
New Hampshire Center for NonProfits, 2023 Hoffman-Haas Fellowship
Women Rocking Business, 2022 Grand Prize Leadership Academy Winner