Biography
Deborah Leben started her career in the federal government at the United States Secret Service as a Fingerprint Specialist. She advanced to senior leadership positions, including Director of the Secret Service Crime Laboratory, Office of Investigations, and Strategic Program Advisor, Office of Human Resources. 2017 she achieved the Senior Executive Service certification and loved every aspect of her career.
Deborah believes that through the help of mentors and being intentional about pursuing your dream career, you are creating a lifestyle filled with curiosity, personal growth, and fulfillment and not just landing a J.O.B. Along her career journey, she met people who were not living their dream and were just coming in for the paycheck. She began working with people to identify and achieve their goals and discovered how coaching changed their lives and choices.
Today, Deborah is a Career Coach, keynote speaker, trainer, and DISC Consultant as a Maxwell Certified Leadership team member. She offers customized solutions to accelerate personal and professional growth through proven leadership methods. Deborah believes that coaching and professional development helps people confidently communicate what they want and live differently. She focuses on bringing people together on common ground to create energy and belonging across an organization. Deborah works with students to assess career choices that match their strengths, with people in career transition looking for a change and executives focused on improving retention, team performance, and the employee experience while getting people in the right seats so everybody wins.
Deborah’s mission is to help individuals and teams discover their strengths and their value and find careers that utilize them, taking them from success to significance. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and certified by the Cognitive Applied Positive Psychology Institute. She is Adjunct Faculty at the George Mason University Forensic Science Program.