Deborah Laurel

Deborah Spring Laurel has been a trainer and a consultant in the areas of workplace learning and performance improvement for over 30 years. She has 25 years of experience as the president of Laurel and Associates, Ltd., an international human resource development training and consulting firm that specializes in enhancing interpersonal dynamics within organizations.

Deborah taught management and supervisory topics for the Executive Management Institute and the Small Business Development Center in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 30 years. From 1998-2002, she consulted with J. J. Strossmeyer University in Osijek, Croatia to design the first Eastern European participant-based master’s degree program in entrepreneurship. She has her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Deborah has been published frequently. “User Friendly Performance Evaluation” is a chapter in a monograph published by the University of Minnesota and ASTD. She is also published in the Training and Consulting issues of the 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008. 2009, 2010, and 2011 Pfeiffer Annuals, as well as in The Leadership Challenge Activities Book by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.