Biography leadership consultant

Debra L. Howard

Debra Howard has helped hundreds of leaders and their organizations learn and grow so that they can deliver dramatic results and solve their most perplexing problems.

She coaches executives and their teams, trains talented managers, and redesigns complex companies and nonprofits that are struggling to grow or are suffering from growing too quickly.

With her "Hermione's handbag" of models, assessments, exercises, trainings, and workshops, she helps leaders work more effectively with the cast of characters in their professional life, and achieve results that truly matter.

Executive Coaching

Deb founded her consulting firm in 1991. She’s been coaching leaders since well before executive coaching became the gold standard for leadership development. 

She helps four types of leaders 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; 3) seasoned, successful executives who are feeling uninspired, unhealthy, or unfulfilled; and 4) newly hired or promoted executives and CEOs who want to accelerate their onboarding to quickly succeed in their new role. The centerpiece of her approach is confidential, interview-based, 360-degree feedback that is candid, detailed, and actionable.

Team Coaching and Facilitation

Deb understands what makes teams tick, and offers leadership team coaching, team-building workshops, and retreat design and facilitation to help teams and their leaders improve communication, increase trust, hit the reset button on unproductive patterns of behavior, and positively shift the aspects of their organizational culture that are holding them back.

Organizational Development

Businesses, nonprofits, and foundations hire Deb to help them reorganize so they can remove bottlenecks, clarify

Dino is a professional certified coach with the International Coach Federation. He is a business coach, facilitator and accomplished business leader, supporting emerging leaders to find their voice. He discovered coaching as part of his leadership journey and noticed that, like his young daughter, people are a lot more effective, resilient and energised when doing what they choose to do! Dino enjoys working with others to unlock their untapped potential and ultimately deliver value for organisations.

He has spent many years in multi-national organisations working to drive efficiencies and enable high productivity as a means of achieving a competitive business advantage. Dino’s work in organisational change, predominantly in the IT arena, focuses on how IT can be leveraged as the catalyst for culture change.  Drawing on his experiences of living in Europe, Middle East and North America. Dino believes, with awareness comes clarity of thought to make choices.

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Dynamic and collaborative with a sharp ability to solve problems, Lesley Girard brings nearly 10 years experience as a senior leader within the education sector. From her role as a change agent to her uncanny ability to identify risks, Lesley has been able to help institutions retain employees and save hundreds of thousands of dollars through various EEO and employee relations initiatives. 

In the second paragraph of this consultant bio, we see the company she is currently consulting at and what she has been able to do for them. She practices what she preaches; she shows those who might want to use her services her level of ability.

Currently working as a consultant to the Office of Compliance & Diversity, Lesley provides guidance in a number of key areas, such as organizational development, succession planning, human resources, and employee relations. In her most recent position as the vice president of administration with the School Construction Authority, she helped to break down silos and facilitate communicat