Debra S. Email & Phone Number

Debra is a senior business executive, focusing on Human Resources and Business Processes and Infrastructure. Over the last 20 years, she has been involved with creating, developing, growing and enhancing HR/business systems as well as company cultures, especially through growth. Including her involvement with companies in her direct or indirect involvement being named a great place to work from a variety of institutions including Inc. Magazine. Highlights include:▪ Entrepreneurial leadership experience growing and developing HR practices from recruiting processes to employee development to benefits and payroll administration for companies on a growth trajectory. ▪ Source and leverage outside relationships/vendors to create and/or enhance best business practices within operations and finance.▪ Strong drive and passion for identifying and transforming HR practices into efficiencies for the employees and increasing the bottom line for the business.▪ Dedication to employee engagement and coaching to create an environment of promotion from within and development of employee’s strengths combined with company’s needs. ▪ Ability to leverage relationships of all departments in the creation of cross-functional teams to foster partnerships creating a stronger culture to able to withstand all types of change.▪ Inspirational leadership and motivation of senior leadership, internal teams, and partners to execute on business initiatives with the focus on increasing employer branding.▪ She helped grow Honest Tea from 52 employees and $23M in sales in 2007, to 127 employees and $113M in sales in 2013. She also played a critical role in the Honest Tea acquisition by The Coca-Cola Company in 2011, and the integration and further expansion of Honest Tea as an independent business unit after the acquisition. Honest Tea was a multi-year winner of awards from the Alliance for Workplace Excellence.