Debra Gawrych

Debra J. Gawrych, MBA is the CEO and founder of Common Boundaries, a company whose purpose is to promote effective leadership skills at both the individual and organizational levels. She is a nationally known consultant with large corporate clients such as Procter & Gamble and Wachovia, as well as smaller local and individual clients. She has been a dynamic change agent for over twenty-six years. Corporate experience includes Business and Management consulting, system sales, systems analysis and design, process improvement, trading floor investments, and executive coaching, organizational change, leadership training and development.

After several years of working with a leading consulting firm, Debra started her own company to bring the idea of leadership to a more personal level. She engages her clients to discover their authentic selves in order to take charge of their lives to achieve their highest potential. Through personality assessments, dynamic experiential work on power and purpose, as well as respectful confrontation models, clients come away with practical tools to lead more powerful lives.

Debra offers two publications: best-selling book The Seven Aspects of Sisterhood: Empowering Women Through Self-Discovery and Lead From the Inside Out, which is available on CD as an audio book. Lead From the Inside Out was produced by Emmy award-winning Radio-TV personality Monica Pierre.

She has been quoted in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Today's American Woman, The Business Journal, BizLife, ForeWord Magazine, Cincinnati Enquirer, most recently on issues of power, authenticity and integrity.

After three years serving as President of USA Climbing, Debra stepped down to devote time to new endeavors. She is currently involved with efforts to bring climbing into the Olympics, and meets extensively with international leaders in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. The lessons she has learned and communicates about power and transformative change are firsthand and timely for any organization wanting to go to the next level.

She currently resides in Weston, Florida after moving from North Carolina, which had been her home for over 24 years. Like many of us, she faces daily the challenges of balance between demands of three children, husband, work, and new volunteer adventures. She hopes that the hurricanes will pass South Florida by this year and that the alligator she saw recently in the lake in her backyard will find his or her way back to the Everglades.soon.