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Deborah Huisken

Biography:

Deborah Huisken has worked for over twenty years leading and helping others lead entrepreneurial companies in the business-to-business, consumer, and professional services sectors.  In the late ‘90s she started using that experience to coach business and organizational clients from around the world, both individuals and teams.  She is an innovative leadership development facilitator with a passion for working internationally.  Her emphasis is on experiential learning to help leaders develop greater self-understanding and therefore clarity about where they can have the greatest impact. 

Hers has been a multi-faceted career of cross-industry experience, including IT Marketing with international corporate clients; and internal and external sales,. Deborah is known for generating innovative ideas for leveraging growth and transformation in individuals and organizations.

Her passion is working with leaders committed to making a difference in their communities.  She founded her company, Dancing Star International, to help individuals and organizations realize their full potential – to more fully recognize and embrace their talents, abilities, and differences in order to create innovative, effective, and fulfilled leaders and teams.

The majority of Deborah’s coaching clients have been self-paying individuals native to countries around the globe including Canada, UK, Japan, Sweden, Trinidad, Israel, Korea, and the US, and have held mid- to senior-level roles in consumer, business-to-business, state university, healthcare, science, and artsorganizations such as Apple Computer, General Dynamics, Hewlett Packard, London School of Economics, SunTory, Philips, Pfizer, and the United States Federal Government.  Consulting clients have been in both business-to-business and commercial roles.

While Deborah has facility in both French and Spanish, she does not coach in either.

Languages spoken:

English, some French

Qualifications:

Bachelors cum laude University of Massachusetts (US), Comparative Literature

Mastery, Institute for Creativity (UK)

Coursework University of Surrey (UK); REN Coaching (China); School for Shadow Coaching (Canada)

CPCC and Co-Active Leadership Intensive, The Coaches Training Institute (US)

PCC and Member, International Coach Federation

Certified Facilitator, The Bigger Game (US)

Industry experience:

Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, and Startups; IT (Software and Hardware); High Technology; Manufacturing; Marketing; Retail; Transportation; Education; Publishing, Hospitality, and the Arts.

Intervention specialisms:

Thought leadership (idea generation innovation, and creativity); Visioning (creating the Bold Vision, developing the strategy, implementation, and executing individual and organizational goals); Identifying and playing a Bigger Game; Staying the course through complex times; Expatriate and cross-cultural challenges; Shadow Coaching; Customized 360s; Developing people; (communication and inter-personal skills); Experiential learning.

Approach and competencies:

Learning through doing, self-generative learning, deep engagement and communication, intuition-based feedback, integrity, powerful questions and mirroring.

Deborah Huisken

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