Deborah is the founder and principal of Risk Dynamics, Inc. a risk management consulting firm that helps business leaders and senior management teams gain deeper insight into their organizations' effectiveness in managing business threats. The firm delivers diagnostics, designs development plans and implements enhancements that measurably improve risk management performance.

Deborah has twenty-five years experience in the risk management field helping organizations uncover and resolve risk management issues through effective combinations of assessment and risk improvement.

She has developed and led cross-functional risk management identification, assessment and improvement projects at senior management and board levels for corporations in power and utility, outsourced services, public sector, printing/direct marketing, real estate management and financial services industries.

Prior to Risk Dynamics, she was a senior executive and managing director with Marsh McLennan Companies (Marsh) and predecessor firms. As the risk management optimization practice leader, she built the first formalized risk management effectiveness consulting and outsourcing models, tools and methodologies within Marsh.

Deborah was also a founding member of MMC Enterprise Risk - the group responsible for the development, implementation and advancement of Marsh McLennan Companies' enterprise risk management (ERM) initiative. During her tenure with MMC Enterprise Risk she developed and led the ERM strategy for utilities and power producers.

Prior to MMC Enterprise Risk, Deborah was managing director of risk services in the Sedgwick (a predecessor firm) New York Metro region. She developed the strategic plan and directed the re-organization of the regional loss control and claims service groups into a successful profit center. The combined group focused on integrated client-driven risk management solutions.

As a senior member of Sedgwick's Boston management team, Deborah developed, staffed and led the first formalized business development group within Sedgwick North America. The group strategy and systems were based on consultative processes in client approach, solution development and communication.

She has authored risk management position papers including "Risk Insights: Behavioral Risk in Changing Organizations" for The John Liner Review - Advanced Risk Management Strategies and is a regularly featured speaker on corporate risk management practices.

Deborah has an MA in Organizational Behavior from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She obtained a BS in Psychology from Suffolk University and received her Associate in Risk Management designation from the Insurance Institute of America.