dk home | on a woman's path series | books and eDocs | websites | site map

Debbe Kennedy is a master problem-solver, author, innovator, founder and president of the Leadership Solutions Companies, an award-winning
women-owned and operated enterprise since 1990, specializing in leadership and organizational communications solutions. She is also the visionary founder, Leadership Solutions Companies’ newest entity–Global Dialogue Center, a virtual gathering place, using state-of-the-art technology to bring people together from around the world for conversation and debate, encouraging the exchange of ideas and mutual
trust, respect and understanding.

Debbe knows the leader’s journey as you do. She has experienced it as a successful entrepreneur, a change-leading strategic partner for Fortune 100 executives and managers and in a rewarding leadership career with IBM Corporation for over twenty years --- and as a working mother. Debbe’s work and leadership influence have contributed to communications solutions for senior management across many corporate functions, marketing, professional services, diversity, women’s issues, management development, employee development, human resources, strategic planning and implementation. The hallmark of Leadership Solutions Companies is reflected in Kennnedy’s long-held strategic business partnership with Hewlett-Packard spanning over ten years. Learn more at www.lscompanies.com and www.globaldialoguecenter.com.

In July 2005, she opened the newest wing of the Global Dialogue Center's virtual facility, Women in the Lead --- virtual gathering place of distinction for women around the world --- a community of friends --- a place to learn, develop new skills, participate in conversation, meet new friends, find valuable resources and get inspired in ways that will help YOU strengthen your leadership in your work, in your community and in your life --- helping you create new meaning each day.

Debbe is the author of numerous books and publications, including Breakthrough!®: Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution®,which has been translated into several languages, Action Dialogues: Meaningful Conversations to Accelerate Change, and the Diversity Breakthrough!® Action Books.

reviews on business leadership contributions…

“Debbe Kennedy has given us multiple gifts. First, the gift of her deep experience with diversity work, and second, her creative gifts of presenting these ideas in a way that makes them intriguing and compelling.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley, author Leadership and the New Science, co-author, A Simpler Way

“Once in a great while, someone comes up with a truly unique approach to human relationships. Debbe Kennedy is that someone. Her approach to diversity is the most innovative, insightful, practical, helpful set of concepts and tools I’ve seen in a very long time.
— BJ Gallagher, author, Who is ‘They’ Anyway?: A Tale of Achieving Success at Work Through Personal Accountability and co-author, Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery

“Totally overwhelmed with the excellence of the materials. I think Diversity Breakthrough! is an enormous contribution.”
— Frances Hesselbein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Leader to Leader Institute (former Peter F. Drucker Foundation) , Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1998, Editor-in-Chief, Leader-to-Leader magazine