
Deborah Tom
Psychologist, Master Coach and an Award Winning Leadership Programme Designer
Deborah is an ambassador of the coaching industry, having coached Business Leaders, Heads of the Military and Performance Directors of six Olympic Sports and English Cricket. She has worked with a vast number of companies to help them align objectives, develop the right mindsets and skills, challenge assumptions and drive for Gold.
Speaker enquiryDeborah Tom is Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has been Managing Director for nearly twenty years of www.human-systems.biz, a management consultancy that has won awards for work on strategy, employee engagement, developing capability and culture.
A Chartered Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Certified Management Consultant, Fellow of the CIPD, RSA and Royal Society of Medicine as well as being on the Registry of Qualified Test Users. Deborah is a Master NLP, Master Train the Trainer in NLP and Master Business Coach in NLP.
Deborah uses a variety of psychological and psychometric approaches to unlock the inner workings of her coachee’s. She also carries out Holistic Resilience Coaching using Biofeedback scientific data from her medical team partners on heart rate variability, cortisol levels, blood pressure and cholesterol.
Deborah has worked with a vast number of companies to help them align objectives, understanding success, develop the right mindsets and skills, challenge assumptions and drive for Gold.
She designs and leads world class teams on global year-long leadership development programmes and has run workshops in London, Moscow, Lisbon, Paris, New York, Washington, Texas, Prague, Singapore & Hong Kong and has lived in Brussels, Tokyo, Boston and Lisbon.
Her clients include Barclays, Diageo, The Defence Academy, MOD, Marriott, Whitbread, KPMG, PwC, Linklaters, IBM, BBC, British Airways, M&S, HSBC, JP Morgan, ASDA, BAE SYSTEMS, Colt, Blackwells, Babcock and UK Sport.
Deborah is also the author of three books on leadership and self-help published by the BBC in eight languages
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“Deborah is a wonderful person- dynamic and very creative in her approach. She has the unique ability of coaching individuals as well as large facilitating change in large corporate organisations. Gets results fun & fast!”
Andreas Thrasyvoulou, CEO, myhotels
“Deborah is fearless. Creative and bold in her design, she listens carefully to the brief and delivers on it – however challenging. She is a true expert in her field, and her work ethic is amazing.”
Krys Grudniewicz, HR Director, Coller Capital

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