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In-demand speaker, moderator, and workshop facilitator

Deborah works with today’s top executives on the challenging issues of negotiation, leadership, and gender in ways that to secure wins for individuals and their organizations. Foremost authority in the fields of negotiation, leadership, and gender, she is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women in Leadership (Emerita) and co-founder of the Ford Foundation funded Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons College School of Management.

Deborah was Former Executive Director and is currently Co-Director of the Negotiations in the Workplace Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is a strategic advisor and mentor to many of today’s most successful executive women and also served as Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research in 2008-2009, and is Adjunct Faculty at INSEAD.

 

ENGAGEMENTS

 

 

“Make your value visible in a currency that has value to the person you are dealing with.”

 
 

SPEAKINGS

 

Women’s Negotiation Workshop :: [November, 2018 | Bosnia]

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TALKS AT GOOGLE :: [FEBRUARY, 2015 | CAMBRIDGE, USA]

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AWARD Enhancing Negotiation Skills for Women Course :: [MARCH, 2012 | NAIROBI, KENYA]

“Effective negotiators are bred not born.” A four-days global negotiation course specifically designed for AWARD* mentors and senior women from CGIAR Centers, who were capacitated to deliver the course in the long run by themselves.

AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and Development) is a catalyst for innovations with high potential to contribute to the prosperity and well-being of African smallholder farmers. We equip top women agricultural scientists across sub-Sah…

AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and Development) is a catalyst for innovations with high potential to contribute to the prosperity and well-being of African smallholder farmers. We equip top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their research and leadership skills. Source: www.awardfellowships.org

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