“Working with Debra didn’t just advance my career—it transformed it. She helped me see leadership not as a role to perform, but as a way of being. That shift redefined how I make decisions, how I influence, and how I lead with integrity.”
Meet Debra
The ARCHITECT of ALIGNMENT
Debra helps women lead, create, and evolve in ways that feel deeply aligned—and powerfully their own.
“Power is lasting when it’s felt — not forced.”
Before Debra became a trusted advisor to today’s most visionary women, she helped build some of the world’s most iconic companies—from Microsoft to Meta. She led billion-dollar businesses, scaled global teams, and shaped cultures of innovation, belonging, and beauty.
Now, she works with founders, creatives, and executives at inflection points—where success is evolving. It’s no longer just about what they achieve, but how they do it, who they do it with, and what it costs to win.
When Women Leaders Turn to Debra:
The Future is Unscripted
What’s next doesn’t follow a plan, template, or a title. It’s yours to define.
The Inner
signal Shifts
Something internal
is stirring—calling you to reassess, evolve, and realign
Expansion is inevitable
There’s more you’re meant to build. A bigger vision is taking shape—and it’s time.
this is where she meets them
The most meaningful transformations don’t follow a script—they start with a signal
The Journey: From Building Empires to Building Women Leaders
Early Career
The Corporate Climb
Debra built her career inside some of the world’s most influential companies—Accenture, Arnold Worldwide, McCann Erickson, Microsoft, and eventually Meta—leading global teams, launching new markets, and shaping billion-dollar businesses.
These were high-velocity, high-stakes rooms. Debra learned exactly what it took to succeed inside them. It was her early education in how systems shape us—and what it requires to move through them with power and precision.
Mid-Career
The Awakening
While working in tech, Debra earned her master’s at Harvard. It shifted everything.
Inside those classrooms, she studied what most corporate cultures overlook: the emotional, human, and invisible forces that shape how people lead—and who gets to. Debra brought those insights back into her work, and everything changed. The meetings. The decisions. The teams. The outcomes.
It was her first glimpse into the power of integration—where difference drives innovation, and strategy and sensitivity sharpen each other rather than compete.
Transition
The Pivot
Debra moved beyond corporate titles to build something more dimensional—an advisory practice that honored people as much as product.
The work began with strategy, but rarely stayed there. As she partnered with visionary women to grow their companies, they also evolved how they led. How they worked. What they wanted next.
This way of working didn’t just feel better—it performed better. Because success isn’t only what you build. It’s how you feel while building it—and who you become along the way.
Present
The Integration
Today, Debra guides visionary women shaping the future of industries and culture—through private advisory, group experiences, and a growing collective.
At the center is The Overlap—a method and philosophy rooted in this belief: the greatest meaning and impact emerge when you integrate who you are with what you do.
Debra is building a leadership lifestyle brand to bring that to life—through essays, salons, retreats, residencies, and new expressions of community.
TRUSTED BY
The Deeper Story: What Shaped Her Runs Deeper
The family dynamics that taught Debra to code-switch—and eventually, to integrate
Like many of us, Debra was shaped by the systems she worked in—and the family she came from.
Her parents were opposites: her father, a sharp-minded executive who prized performance, precision, and progress; her mother, a nurse’s aid and union leader who led with empathy, aesthetics, and care.
To be close to each, Debra learned early to move between worlds — adapting to whichever side of herself was needed most. At work, that meant leading with structure and strength. At home, it meant attunement and grace.
For years, she believed she had to choose. Until she realized the truth: the best work — and the most meaningful life — come when we lead from the full spectrum of who we are, not just the version that was rewarded.
That integration became her life’s work: proving that alignment isn’t found — it’s designed.
Where It Comes Together
because how you live
Shapes How You Lead
Debra lives full-time in the Hamptons, with her husband, Michael, and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Hank—brilliant, intuitive, and a little reluctant to follow anyone’s lead. Debra can relate.
After years of building from boardrooms and airports, Debra has come to believe that how we live—quietly, daily—matters just as much as what we build.
This work, this way of being — it's not just about achievement.
It's about integration.
It's about beauty, longevity, and leadership moving as one.
Here, aspiration becomes architecture. Alignment takes form.
CLIENT NOTES
Reflections from women who’ve moved through this work
— Jill, Philanthropy Executive
“This is the only space where I can bring every part of myself—ambitious, uncertain, intuitive—and still feel powerful. Debra creates a container where truth and strength coexist. It’s where my leadership feels most whole.”
— Pamela, Global Brand Leader
“Working with Debra is like having a mirror that reflects not just where you are, but where you’re headed. She sees patterns and possibilities before they take shape. Every conversation leaves me clearer, more centered, and better equipped to lead.”
— Louise, Founder & CEO
“The space Debra creates is unlike any I’ve been in—thoughtful, strategic, deeply human. For the first time, I didn’t feel the need to edit or perform. Every part of me was welcome, and that made the work not just insightful, but liberating.”
— Salon Guest, Creative Director
“I came to the course thinking I’d gain new insight into my patterns. What I found instead was a new way of leading. The work helped me realign with what actually matters—and from that place, everything shifted. I no longer lead from effort or expectation, but from alignment. It’s a quieter kind of power, and a far more effective one.”
— Self-Guided Course Participant
“The world was moving fast, and so was I—until I realized speed had become my default, not my choice. Working with Debra slowed me down in the most transformative way. In stillness, I could finally hear my own knowing. Decisions became simpler, actions more intentional. What I gained wasn’t just insight—it was authority over my own pace, my own power.”
— Christina, Investor & Board Chair
is this for you?
You’re accomplished—but you’re ready to evolve.
You sense there’s something richer, more resonant ahead.
You want a way forward that reflects your depth—not just your drive.