Prior to coaching, Debra built an award-winning career leading social and environmentally-focused businesses. She served as the president of Canada’s first full service socially responsible investment firm and was co-founder of Canada’s largest organic home-delivery service. She was also the co-founder and Board Chair of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, whose mission is to connect and empower Canadian businesses to advance social and environmental leadership.

But, the seeds for The Success Solution were planted even before that. Early in Debra’s career, she understood that people were the most important asset of a company. Charged with turning failing stores into profitable stores for a national retail chain, she focused on the staff and invested most of her time on their training and development - not just as sales people, but as people. By finding and supporting the unique strengths of each person, her locations became financially successful and leaders in the communities they served. And, the foundation of The Success Solution was born.

Since then, Debra has gone on to teach The Success Solution methodology to hundreds of leaders across a variety of organizations, including CEOs in the portfolio of Renewal Partners, a private seed-capital investment company. She’s also held faculty positions with The Hollyhock Leadership Institute and has served as a board member of The Better Business Bureau, with special focus on policy and ethics.

Today, Debra’s coaching draws on her personal experience as a leader in business, her extensive education in leadership, and her training in nervous system regulation. Debra combines simple - yet proven - practices that increase confidence, performance, and productivity with science-backed approaches to nervous system regulation to help individuals improve their mental and physical health, increase their resilience, and thrive.