Meet Debra Kunz
Seasoned Leader
Debra Kunz is an Award-Winning Executive Coach and Business Performance Consultant, and the Founder of the Center for Deliberate Growth®. With over 25 years of experience, Debra solves business problems and creates growth in a variety of industries, sizes of organizations, and with differing types of leaders. Her unique coaching method includes the option to measure the ROI. As an experienced speaker, Debra creates a dynamic and interactive experience to share her practical wisdom with associations, conferences, and private engagements.
Strategic Solutions
Debra specializes in teaching, coaching, and implementing practical leadership, business performance, and growth strategies that unlock prosperous results at an intentional pace. Based in the Kansas City area, she delivers in-person and virtual programs for US and international clients.
Client Results
Through Debra’s straightforward and insightful guidance, clients are realizing results such as measuring an advantageous impact on time and money, leveraging teamwork, developing a cohesive leadership team, elevating effective and efficient productivity, unlocking potential within evolving or new leaders, maximizing the benefits of organizational transitions, navigating critical business crossroads, coping with industry shifts, expanding sales opportunities, and breaking through revenue and profitability plateaus.
Professional Honors
The Center for Deliberate Growth® was honored with a 2019 Bronze Stevie Award for Company of the Year, Business Services at the Women in Business Gala in New York City. Debra’s work was also recognized with the Excellence in Practice Award for ‘Coaching and Mentoring’ from the Association for Talent Development, Kansas City. Debra was selected as the Kansas Women Business Advocate of the Year by the Kansas Department of Commerce, and as an Inspirational Influencer by the International Association of Women KC.
Speaker, Facilitator, Author
Debra has shared her knowledgeable and motivating speaking style at numerous conferences, associations, private events, a college commencement ceremony, and television and radio interviews. As an author, Debra received an international transformational author award for her personal development book that was also voted number one in its category.
Experience
Before founding the Center for Deliberate Growth® in 2010, Debra’s first-hand experience steering increasingly complex business problems began with three years working for family-owned businesses. From there, she spent 10 years in corporate life and navigated through 10 company mergers in 10 years. During this time, she became a sought after project manager and led teams related to business analysis, change management, marketing and communications strategy, brand management, project and process management, quality system initiatives, and organizational development. Seeking a more entrepreneurial opportunity, Debra’s journey continued with six years as a financial and investment advisor. As business owners continued to request her business expertise, Debra discovered that was her favorite role and shifted her focus. Today she guides executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, and key leaders to create the business they want, achieve the results they seek, and realize the impact they envision.
Education
Debra holds a Master’s Degree in business (MBA) from Baker University and a Bachelor’s Degree in marketing from Iowa State University, plus over two and a half decades as the requested level-headed guide for business challenges and opportunities.
Certified Executive Coach and Business Coach
Debra has developed her expertise in business strategy, problem solving techniques, and human motivation through decades of experience in conjunction with ongoing continuing education. Her studies include the unique Coaching with ROI (Return on Investment) Certification and the Impact Group Coaching with ROI Certification from the World Business & Executive Coaching Summit; a Business Coaching MBBC Certification as well as an Executive Coaching Money Mindset SMA Certification from Heart of Success Coaching; and a Personal and Team Strengths Accreditation from Strengthscope®.