About

Discover why The Renegade Leader Coaching and Consulting Group can empower you to lead change, drive results, and gain traction in your industry.

As The Renegade Leader’s founder and CEO, Debora McLaughlin is passionate about seeing her clients become change leaders who transform organizational gridlock into team alignment that produces results. She does this by providing executive coaching, business consulting and leadership development.

Debora cultivates the leadership skills of adaptability, resilience, innovation, communication, and connection needed to lead in “the future of work” effectively.

Her disruptive approach builds confidence, capacity, and leaders’ capabilities to achieve results faster than they ever thought possible. Organizations seek out The Renegade Leader Coaching and Consulting Group when the focus in on retention, engagement, diversity and inclusion, strategy, growth, innovation, change leadership and employee wellbeing.

Debora works within organizations in the areas of retention, digital transformation, innovation, Her proprietary Amplification Framework™ for Visionary leaders, teams, and organizations produces predictable, measurable results. Refined from over 20 years of coaching proficiency, combined with expertise in change leadership, behavioral change, and corporate experience within Fortune 100 global companies, allows Debora and her team to intuitively change the thinking, behaviors, and actions causing organizational gridlock and to open needed pathways to possibility. She and her team provide the essential evolving skills for leaders, teams, and a foundation where cultures can flourish and adapt. Debora is committed as a lifelong learner to bring relevant and forward-thinking skills to her clients. Debora is a twice best-selling author of The Renegade Leader, 9 Success Strategies Driven Leaders Use to Ignite People, Profits and Performance and Running in High Heels, How to Lead with Influence, Impact, and Ingenuity. Her thought leadership was published by Forbes, Inc., The Wall Street Journal, American Express, American Management Association, and other media. Debora is reading Harvard Business Review at the end of her lake house dock or walking her three golden retrievers.

Change isn’t easy, but The Renegade Leader Coaching and Consulting Group helps you align others to your ideas and build an organization that mirrors your vision. Debora and her team are thought leaders, authors, coaches, and consultants dedicated to partnering with CEOs, executives, directors, and leaders to achieve results.

Debora’s Story

Always a change catalyst and Renegade Leader, Debora has never accepted the status quo and has always found a way forward in the midst of impossible circumstances.

By 21, Debora had moved to NYC to launch her career on Wall Street, selling the technology solutions of Fortune 100 companies to Fortune 500 companies. Gaining experience, Debora mastered interacting with senior leaders to understand their business needs and provide the right solutions for growing organizations. Earning recognition, she achieved President Club status and advancement as a national account manager, managing global clients and teams. Debora realized it wasn’t her products that created her success—it was her understanding of her clients and ability to find them customized solutions.

Debora left a lucrative corporate job to pursue her passion for people, studying psychology, behavior, and neuroscience. With family members in the life sciences, such as nursing and periodontistry, Debora’s transition to healthcare continued the family narrative. Eventually, she became a licensed therapist and was flocked with professionals seeking relief from workplace anxieties, stress, and struggles. Feeling she could provide services beyond labeling her clients with a diagnosis, Debora found a better solution—coaching.

After gaining her ICF certification, Debora began professionally coaching in 2003, providing leadership development for CEOs, directors, and others. Today, she works with leaders, teams, and organizations to end organizational gridlock and foster communication, change agility, cross-functional team collaboration, and bottom-line results. Always anticipating trends and seeing around corners, Debora and her team help leaders find the resilience to move through the gridlock, even when there’s no path visible. Let Debora’s story become part of your success.

With The Renegade Leader, you’ll tap into Debora’s education and expertise for leadership development. Debora holds several college degrees, including two master’s degrees: an M.A. in clinical psychology and an M.A. in counseling and organizational behavior with a certification in multicultural counseling. In addition, Debora is also a licensed cognitive behavioral psychotherapist with a background in counseling corporate professionals experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety.

Debora’s extensive education gives her a unique insight into understanding individuals and helping them grow as leaders. Certified as an executive coach, career coach, business coach, and change leader, Debora’s expertise supports clients throughout the growth of their career and their organization.

Master of Arts, Hunter College, NYC Organizational and Social Psychology

Master of Arts, Rivier University, NH Clinical and Counseling Psychology

International Coaching Federation
Debora is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), an international distinction that ensures ongoing professional development, extensive experience coaching clients, and annual assessment. She’s also eligible for becoming a Master Certified Coach (MCC).

Adaptability Intelligence Partner
Certified Adaptability expert in the assessment of change readiness, reskill index and measurement and development of adaptability skills as an individual, team and/or organization. Building adaptability secures change and future ready preparedness and instills a competitive edge.

Change Catalysts
A Certified Change Catalyst, Debora can expertly administer and interpret the CQ Assessment and offer solutions using the CQ system to equip individuals, teams, and organizations.

Career Coach Institute
Debora is also a Certified Executive Career Coach (CECC) and Certified Career Coach (CCC) through the CCI.

MentorCoach
Certified with MentorCoach, Debora has earned her Certified MentorCoach (CMC), Certified Executive Coach, and Certified Small Business Coach titles.

Center for Executive Coaching
Debora holds credentials in both Executive Coaching and Business Coaching through the Center for Executive Coaching.

Physician’s Leadership Institute
Certified Physician Development Coach coaching physician leaders,to gain effectiveness within their teams and organizations and build resiliency and experience joy in their work.

A contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, American Express’s Open Forum, the Boston Herald, Inc., the New York Daily News, and other publications, Debora provides insights based on her wide experience and deep expertise.

Debora has also authored books on successful leadership development: The Renegade Leader: 9 Success Strategies Driven Leaders Use to Ignite People, Performance & Profits and Running in High Heels: How to Lead with Influence, Impact & Ingenuity. In addition, Debora has been recognized by the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), receiving their 2013 Woman of the Year award.