
We have been working with Deb for 2+ years, building our company culture and changing the management structure of our company. We have done all-hands-on-deck team seminars with her and one-on-one coaching. She is truly effective in both arenas. She has done an awesome job connecting with and motivating our employees and mentoring our executive team through a drastic change in our organizational structure. Deb really cares about her clients and the results that they achieve. Through Deb's coaching our revenue and net income have increased astronomically. She has helped set our company up for future growth and success.
Bill Johnson, DVM, Owner, Leatherstocking Veterinary Services

Debra A. Van Cleve
Debra Van Cleve is a strategic business consultant, Certified Executive Coach, author, and trusted advisor to CEOs and executive teams. For more than 16 years, she has helped leaders turn vision into action, build stronger leadership teams, and create organizations that achieve sustainable results.
Her work addresses a challenge every growing organization faces: how to make better decisions, align leaders around what matters most, and turn strategy into consistent action.
Drawing on her experience as a corporate executive and advisor to leadership teams, Debra brings together business strategy, leadership development, team effectiveness, and organizational execution to help CEOs build healthier, higher-performing organizations.
She created Organizational Wisdom™, the PauseWise™ Leadership System, The Clarity Effect™, and The SMART Org™ Operating System—an integrated approach that helps leaders think wisely, get clear, align their people, and execute with discipline.
Debra believes the greatest competitive advantage isn't working harder—it's making better decisions.
Debra partners with CEOs and executive teams to achieve three critical outcomes:
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Build Strategic Wisdom — Create shared direction, strategic priorities, and organizational focus.
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Drive Team Wisdom — Build unified executive teams that challenge, collaborate, decide, and lead as one.
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Develop Leadership Wisdom — Develop leaders who exercise sound judgment, lead with clarity and courage, and turn decisions into purposeful action.
The result: stronger leadership, aligned teams, better decisions, and sustainable results.
“Deb is one of the most focused, insightful and intuitive business people I know. She is committed to her clients as if their goals are her own. When you work with Deb, you can count on excellence being delivered in everything she does with your people, process and results. I highly recommend Deb and her work.”
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Sue Hawkes, Owner of YESS! Your Extraordinary Success Strategies, Inc.





