A layoff or career transition can shake more than your job title — it can shake your sense of who you are. I help professionals navigate career transitions with both practical support (a résumé and interview presence that actually reflects their value) and the deeper work underneath it — the stress, the self-doubt, the identity questions that surface when everything feels uncertain.
Many clients start here and stay for what comes next: reconnecting with what truly matters, breaking through the inner barriers holding them back, and building a more grounded, values-aligned life — wherever their career takes them.
Life moves fast, and it's easy to drift through it on autopilot.
My work is about pausing long enough to choose, deliberately, who you want to be and how you want to live.
Deb began her professional journey as a scientist — earning her degree in Organic Chemistry and starting her career as a chemist in a lab. From there, her path took its own winding turns: into technical writing on regulatory submissions, then CMC Regulatory Affairs for investigational products, a full seven-year departure to run a machine shop, a return to CMC Regulatory Affairs — this time for marketed products, a genuinely different discipline — and later a move into regulatory information/data management.
But life, as it often does, brought a turning point.
Just before a major crisis involving one of her children, Deb discovered mindfulness. What began as a curiosity soon became a lifeline. The practices didn’t fix everything—but they helped her stay present through the chaos, breathe into uncertainty, and show up with a steadiness she hadn’t known was possible.
That experience changed her. It reshaped how she parented, how she worked, and how she related to herself. Mindfulness, she realized, wasn’t just about stress relief—it was about transformation.
In 2016, Deb completed advanced teacher training with UK-based mindfulness expert Shamash Alidina. Since then, she’s guided hundreds of individuals through her signature 9-week master class, Inner Leadership®, which blends mindfulness and self-compassion to foster clarity, resilience, and meaningful change.
As her work deepened, Deb felt called to support people in a more personalized way. She became a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), supporting clients with practical tools and compassionate presence as they navigate change and reconnect with their inner clarity.
Today, she works with clients navigating career transitions, layoffs, burnout, and moments of feeling stuck—helping them reconnect with what truly matters and move toward lives that feel purposeful, spacious, and sustainable. This focus found her in 2023, when a wave of layoffs at her own company affected colleagues she cared deeply about, and she began helping them rebuild their résumés and navigate the uncertainty that followed. That work has continued ever since—the threat of layoffs hasn't really gone away, for them or for her.
She's not approaching this from theory — she works full-time in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs alongside her coaching practice, living inside the same pressures, restructuring, and uncertainty many of her clients face, in real time.
Coaching Credentials & Training
Mindfulness Training
Communication & Leadership Training
Additional Training
Academic Background
