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ABOUT


Deb Hordon headshot cultivating greatness

My Beliefs
I believe that everyone has greatness inside them. Everyone! And I believe that leadership is a calling that invites us to offer our greatness, our highest and best selves to the world.

I have also seen that we human beings have internal barriers to our greatness: beliefs, habits, emotional patterns, and behaviors that block our greatness from fully manifesting. 

My passion is to see a leader’s greatness and to help him dissolve the barriers surrounding it, to facilitate the full actualization of her mission, purpose, vision, and values in order to create a desired impact on others and the world. 

My Style
My style is a ‘tailored-to-each-person’ blend of compassion, emotional warmth, empathy, calm, joy AND insight, direct straight-forward communication, challenge, and at times “tough love.” I get to the heart of the matter with kindness. I gain altitude over the fray and envision an amazing future and the path towards it.

My Method
I have a proven method that inspires sustainable, positive change in leaders, enabling them to have a transformational impact on others, their organizations, their customers, constituents, and the world. In order to achieve these results, I leverage psychometric, quantitative, and qualitative data through ongoing one-on-one sessions.

My Credentials
With 18 years of coaching now, I leverage my knowledge, experience and expertise from:

  • PhD in Sociology, Columbia University

  • A work history that includes growth strategy and innovation consulting (Monitor/Deloitte), leadership assessment (Korn Ferry / PDI / Hay Group), and executive education (Irish Management Institute)

  • Extensive global exposure (having lived and worked for 5+ years in Lima, Istanbul, Milan, Dublin, and London), with clients from 45+ countries

  • Certification through the International Coach Federation and coach training through the Co-Active Training Institute

  • Certification in multiple psychometric inventories, assessment instruments, and healing modalities

Personal
I have been blessed with a daughter, who is now five years old. We live near the ocean in the Boston area with our two cats, Dude and Meatball.


Work History
Leadership Coach (2003-present)
SVP Leadership Strategy, Bullhorn (2015-2017)
Leadership Assessment Consultant at PDI / Korn Ferry (2010-2015)
Leadership & Innovation Consultant at Hay Group (2008-2009)
Professor of Innovation at the Irish Management Institute (2007-2008)
Strategy Consultant, Monitor/Deloitte (1999-2002)

Education
Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, 1999
International Coach Federation (Certified 2005)
The Coaches’ Training Institute, 2003

I have lived/worked in: Lima, Istanbul, Milan, London, Dublin (outside the US for 5+ years)