Debra Howard has helped hundreds of leaders and organizations achieve dramatic improvements and solve their most perplexing problems. By working with Deb, clients get results, such as higher profitability, increased revenue, improved retention of talented staff, and stronger executive teams. And her clients win: they win new business, they win national awards, and they win the respect of their employees, colleagues, and industry leaders.

Deb has been coaching leaders since well before executive coaching became the gold standard for leadership development. She helps three types of managers and executives reach peak performance: 1) rising stars who have ambitious goals and are seeking the skills, systems, and support to achieve them; 2) superstars who are derailing because they're so hard-charging that they're having an unintentionally negative impact on others; and 3) seasoned, successful executives who are feeling uninspired, unhealthy, underappreciated, or stuck.

Deb also coaches teams and small to medium-sized businesses. She conducts detailed audits and helps clients reorganize to remove bottlenecks, improve efficiencies, promote the best leaders, and develop systems that support growth. She specializes in redesigning complex, highly interdependent companies seeking to improve project turnaround times, staff utilization, service quality, and cost-effectiveness.

She is certified in Myers-Briggs Step I and Step II, and has received high-level training for the FIRO-B personality preference assessment and competency-based behavioral interviewing.

Prior to founding her consulting business in 1991, Deb was a consultant with Cambria Consulting in Boston, a human resource consulting firm that conducted job competency assessments and training for Fortune 500 and government clients. Before that, she was the director of program development for Training Concepts in Braintree, Massachusetts, where she designed stand-alone training programs for telecommunications and high-technology companies, such as AT&T, SNET, and Polaroid. She graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a BA in semiotics and is currently writing a book with the working title How to Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For.