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Deborah L. Embry, Founder and President
ICF CERTIFIED COACH (PENDING 12/24)
Certified Practitioner of The Five Behaviors
Deborah L Embry, Founder and President of Strengthening Communities Consulting, LLC brings over 30 years of experience as a CEO and executive in the nonprofit and government sectors. She’s a proven leader with close to 20 years of experience managing, developing programs, initiatives and systems, for the critical economic and social issues facing women, people of color and low income populations and communities, including access to quality education, jobs and economic opportunity, access to quality housing, racial and social justice, early childhood education, and minority health. Ms. Embry has utilized her strengths as a relationship builder, strategic thinker, an implementor, and influencer to strategically impact not only the organization, but the community.
Embry founded Strengthening Communities Consulting because of her personal passion – to create equitable communities and believes that the non-profit and government sector play a vital role. The identity-based disparities in access and outcomes revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the ongoing cultural discourse around racism in our country that began in 2020, prompted many organizations to recognize their need for equity capacity building support to advance equity within their organizations. Strengthening Communities Consulting, LLC is committed to providing human service organizations, local government agencies, and collaboratives with valuable services and resources that promise to contribute to their ability to serve people in their communities and strengthen our collective resiliency.
Finally, Embry created Strengthening Communities Consulting to help CEOs and Executive Directors become better leaders and achieve better results, After over 20 years as an executive , she wanted to build a CEO coaching practice that is committed to helping leaders navigate some of the challenges she struggled with but most importantly learned from.
Embry has a Communications Degree from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.