Deborah Rossouw is a Keynote Speaker and Certified Coach who supports leaders and entrepreneurs to develop their inner capacity to respond with more skill, clarity and competence in order to achieve better results.
Her work encompasses two streams:
- Work on self:- To access your resourcefulness through inner congruence in order to meet daily challenges with greater resilience and inner capacity.
- Work with others:- To equip leaders to engage others with skillful responsiveness and authenticity, for better results.
Deborah’s life journey over the past twenty five years has developed her expertise in the area of inner congruence and authenticity and how it impacts our ability to lead ourselves and others.
Inner congruence increases our capacity to self manage, to think more clearly, be more resilient, be more assertive and make better decisions.
As a speaker and coach, her interactive style engages the head and the heart and inspires others to even higher levels of engagement and achievement.
Deborah’s keynote, ‘The Dance of Engagement – Sometimes you lead, MOST times you follow” - strategies for every leader who wants to improve outcomes and increase their bottom line!
This keynote is delivered with style and substance. Deborah offers a unique perspective that evokes leaders to assess their impact on their team’s sense of engagement. And, she recommends specific, simple actions to increase staff retention and establish a culture of engagement.
This keynote is both informative and entertaining.
The results her clients consistently report, include: greater clarity, reduced stress, better self management, more productive teamwork, more effective client outcomes and authentic engagement.
Deborah has worked in the field of leadership development, in 4 countries and on 3 continents, over the past 22 years, in a wide variety of for profit and not for profit sectors. Her experience includes a wide span of industries such as government, financial services, health-care, education, hospitality, the automotive sector, the legal sector and many more.
Deborah draws on the following Education:
- Certified Integral Coach – New Ventures West, San Francisco, US.
- Certified Master Practitioner of WEL-Systems Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – WEL-Systems Institute, ON, Canada.
- B. Soc Sci Hons Degree, Organizational Psychology – University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
- B.Drama Degree – University of Stellenbosch – South Africa
- HDE – Higher Diploma in Education, UCT, South Africa
- Other certifications include: Advanced Facilitation Skills, Boundary work, Inner child work – South Africa.
Her ideal clients are leaders and entrepreneurs who regard their people as their greatest asset and who want to be known as employers of choice, now and in the future.
Scroll below for a partial list of Clients, since 2000
Extended Bio:
In the late 80′s management development and assertive communication were her focus. In the 90′s it shifted to organizational development and team-building, and over the last decade leadership development, congruence and authenticity have become her focus.
Over the past twenty two years, she has supported thousands of leaders, managers and entrepreneurs to take action in areas that matter to them and the organizations they lead.
A partial list of Clients, since 2000: 
ABCKW, Kuwait
AltaLake Electrical, Squamish, BC
American University of Kuwait [representing Burgan Bank], Kuwait
Canadian Women Voters Congress, Vancouver, BC
Capilano University, Continuing Education Dept, North Vancouver, BC
Cobequid Community Health Services, NS
College of Physicians & Surgeons – NS
Conscious Planet, BC
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
- Faculty of Medicine
- HR & Development 
Environment Canada, NS
FairWinds Training and Development, NS
Fisheries and Aquaculture Services – NS
Great West Life, NS
Halifax Regional Municipality, NS
Health Canada, NS
Holiday Inn Express, NS
Hylands, BC
Investor’s Group, NS
Maritime Life [now ManuLife], NSMaritime Forces Atlantic, NSMcInnes Cooper, NS
Metro Halifax Chamber of Commerce, NS
MISA – Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association, NS
Mount Saint Vincent University, NS
NLOWE – Newfoundland and Labrador Organization of Women Entrepreneurs
Nova Scotia Association of Health Organizations
Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
Nova Scotia Managers Network 
Nova Scotia Office of Economic Development
Nova Scotia Public Service Commission
Nova Scotia Transportation and Public Works
Nubody’s
O’ Regans, NS
Reachability, Halifax, NS
SCA Hygiene, Banff, ABSCA Hygiene, Halifax, NS
TD Canada Trust, Halifax, NS
The Berkley, NS
Toastmasters, [four chapters] Vancouver, BC
UBC – School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, BC
United Way – Halifax, NS
URC and KIPCO, Kuwait
Vancouver Coastal Health, BC
- Learning and Development, VCH
- North Shore Palliative Care
- Richmond Health Services
- Minoru House -residential care facility
- Evergreen House – residential care facility, North Vancouver, BC
-Vancouver Acute Care
- Public Health and Prevention, Powell River, Sunshine Coast and
Coastal HSDA
- WHSCC – Moncton, NB
- Young President’s Organization, NS
Business Name changes:
Deborah Rossouw.com is a division of AuthenticDialogue Inc.
The Essential LifeSkills Company [the original name of our business in Nova Scotia] changed its name to The PersonalPower Partnership, then changed its name to Partners ‘n Sync Seminars on relocation to British Columbia from Nova Scotia, Canada in 2005. AuthenticDialogue.com replaced Partners ‘n Sync Seminars in 2006.
