Debbi Gardiner McCullough is a New Zealander who has reinvented herself three times across three continents and industries, most recently leaving academia after 19 years of service to train as an ICF-certified coach.

Debbi’s coaching has helped improve the confidence and careers of over 1,000 leaders (and aspiring leaders) at the world’s largest tech, manufacturing, and financial corporations, including Google, Black Rock, and Dell.

Over 3,000 MBA and journalism students have improved their communications from her mentoring and training.

Her reporting and writing on social trends and struggles, women leadership, and sustainability has featured in the Economist, the Financial Times of London, Engineering News-Record, the Guardian, and NPR. She's interviewed Fortune 100 leaders, the Property Brothers, Hector Garcia, and the Dalai Lama. She also won a UN Foundation press fellowship for reporting on enterprising ways women save their money when banks won't permit them.

Debbi has a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where she won the Bloomberg Prize for Excellence in Business Reporting two consecutive years.

She hosts two podcasts, writes on Medium most weeks, and is publishing several memoirs.

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