About Common Boundaries

Common Boundaries Consulting & Communications

Debra J. Gawrych, MBA is the CEO and founder of Common Boundaries, a company whose purpose is to promote effective leadership skills at both the individual and organizational levels. She is a nationally known consultant with large corporate clients such as Procter & Gamble and Wachovia, as well as smaller local and individual clients. She has been a dynamic change agent for over twenty-six years. Corporate experience includes Business and Management consulting, system sales, systems analysis and design, process improvement, trading floor investments, and executive coaching, organizational change, leadership training and development.

After several years of working with a leading consulting firm, Debra started her own company to bring the idea of leadership to a more personal level. She engages her clients to discover their authentic selves in order to take charge of their lives to achieve their highest potential. Through personality assessments, dynamic experiential work on power and purpose, as well as respectful confrontation models, clients come away with practical tools to lead more powerful lives.

Debra offers two publications: best-selling book The Seven Aspects of Sisterhood: Empowering Women Through Self-Discovery and Lead From the Inside Out, which is available on CD as an audio book. Lead From the Inside Out was produced by Emmy award-winning Radio-TV personality Monica Pierre.

She has been quoted in numerous newspaper and magazine articles including Today's American Woman, The Business Journal, BizLife, ForeWord Magazine, Cincinnati Enquirer, most recently on issues of power, authenticity and integrity.

After three years serving as President of USA Climbing, Debra stepped down to devote time to new endeavors. She is currently involved with efforts to bring climbing into the Olympics, and meets extensively with international leaders in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. The lessons she has learned and communicates about power and transformative change are firsthand and timely for any organization wanting to go to the next level.

She currently resides in Weston, Florida after moving from North Carolina, which had been her home for over 24 years. Like many of us, she faces daily the challenges of balance between demands of three children, husband, work, and new volunteer adventures. She hopes that the hurricanes will pass South Florida by this year and that the alligator she saw recently in the lake in her backyard will find his or her way back to the Everglades.soon.

Adjunct Facilitators

Wayne Gerber has more than 17 years of consulting experience and is the founder and president of Sungate Advisors, a private practice consulting firm focused on Human Systems Processes. The range of services include organizational and team-based interventions, organizational restructuring processes, executive and leadership coaching and training, large and small meeting facilitation, team building, and the teaching of innovative thinking processes.

Wayne has helped a variety of organizations ranging from the US Government to family-owned businesses.

With a focus on conflict management, Wayne assisted senior executive vice presidents of a power generation company to disengage in a political turf war over the implementation of a resource enterprise software program that required shared decision-making using sensitive, proprietary information.
A large textile manufacturing company was experiencing what could be a sharp downturn in sales and called upon Wayne to help refocus its corporate staff to stem the decline. In the process, Wayne helped the managers generate new enthusiasm.
When tension was mounting at an IT organization due to faulty communications that meant management decisions were unclear and not consistently supported by associates, Wayne was brought in to help employees air concerns surrounding the implementation of the corporate vision and mission - creating a collaborative environment and fostering open communications.

Wayne brings a wealth of research and practical experience to the Common Boundaries Consulting team.

Ken Jacquot is the President, of Blue Ridge Learning Centers, Inc., a company dedicated to providing high-quality experiential education for all ages: school-aged children, university students and adults. His quiet, thoughtful approach to facilitation helps to balance the natural challenges that exist outdoors and within the organization taking the program. Ken has extensive experience in the outdoors with Pecos River Learning Centers, the Morgan School and as a ranger for the National Park Service. He brings the added dimension of continual learning within a safe, intensified experience and encourages each participant to seek the wisdom they carry within.

Ken has worked internationally in diverse areas as China, Fiji, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Venezuala, Canada and across the 50 states of the U.S. He has been climbing for 30 years and helps create the adventure-based mountain top experience whether on site or in the wilderness. Ken enjoys mountain-biking, carpentry and lives in Boone NC with his wife and their two children.

Monica Pierre is an Emmy Award winning journalist, radio host, media consultant and author. She provides media consulting, working with authors and speakers, to assist them in analyzing and producing products for their audio and video needs. Monica is in demand for her ideas for interviews, story angles and an insider's look on the thought process of the media.

Monica won her Emmy for a series of television news reports on New Orleans merchants accused of cheating international shoppers. She is a catalyst for change; a Louisiana law changed because of her series of reports. Monica lives in New Orleans working with a media groups, and speaking to schools, universities, non-profits as well as corporations. She is in demand as a speaker and as an inspirational facilitator for issues on self-esteem, media and overcoming obstacles.

Karen Dugan has worked extensively in the consulting and training arena, specializing in organizational behavioral change. She was the highest rated facilitator on the Wilson Learning Task Force for Office Depot. After a nationwide course roll-out of The Counselor Salesperson, Office Depots target sales increased by 56 percent.

Karen was the lead facilitator in the market launch of Inbound Sales Excellence. She led the Signature Customer Service roll-out for Baltimore Gas and Electric- Home Division, which began in September 2001. B.G.E.-Home has seen a 43 percent reduction in turnover rate for their Customer Service Representatives. Signature Customer Service competencies, which increased staff comfort levels with challenging customers, were a key contributing factor.

Starting her career in the insurance industry, Karen moved from sales to management and ultimately became the Corporate Director of Training. She was responsible for the training of the 450-person field sales force, and designed their training manual and developmental programs.

In the 80s, Karen was a partner in a training and consulting firm, where she designed and conducted intensive workshops constructed to share innovative and practical techniques for mastering, honing, and maintaining top-notch presentation and communication skills. Karen is affiliated with Toastmasters International, the American Society for Training and Development, and the National Speakers Association.

Karen is a magnetic and compelling workshop leader with an enthusiastic style. She has a delivery that comes straight from the heart. Karens track record has established real-world organizational changes that reduce stress while increasing sales productivity, customer loyalty, and employee fulfillment.

Kenneth Schaefer Kenneth J. Schaefer, founder and CEO of Enlightened Paths Consulting, is a Business Consultant and Coach with 25 years of experience within the Engineering, Service, Operations and IT disciplines. His professional career has spanned the Local through the International Arenas, holding such positions as CIO, CTO, International Technical Liaison, EVP of Operations and Service, and Board Member. Through his highly effective consulting, training and coaching practice he has helped guide and foster positive, lasting change in organizations of all sizes. His main focus is on the IT, Service and Operations disciplines from individual team members through executive management. His personal mission is to: “Value people above all else and treat them with dignity: they are the greatest resource and asset in your life and your business.”

Additionally, Mr. Schaefer has spent a great deal of his life studying human interaction, psychology and spiritually based teachings and has employed this knowledge in his personal and business dealings with great success. Perhaps because of this caring, holistic philosophy, he has been characterized as a passionate, highly effective communicator, business & team coach and consultant, as well as an expert bridge builder within and between individuals, teams and companies. He has also been widely viewed as a deeply insightful mentor to individuals looking for positive, lasting change.

Kenneth has lived in South Florida for 12 years, after moving from New York City and traveled extensively internationally for business for over 15 years. He is a frequent visitor to South America where he has family in Columbia. Additionally, Ken is an adjunct consultant with Common Boundaries.

Sample corporate experience:

Balcar
Glassalum International
Digital Drafting Systems

Some of Our Work

Following is a partial list of some of the organizations with which Common Boundaries has worked.

Choice Hotels
North Carolina Association of CPAs
Wachovia
Barnes & Noble
Procter & Gamble
Wake Forest University
Mary Kay Inc.
General Electric Aircraft Engines
American Business Women’s Assn.
Miami University
Case Western Reserve
Leadershape Institute
Girl Scouts of America
Appalachian State University
Corning Precision Lens
Aetna Healthcare
University of NC at Greensboro
Terrace Community Living

Affiliations

Common Boundaries is certified by the state of Florida as a Minority Business Enterprise.

Common Boundaries Consulting and Communications
2895 Luckie Road, Weston, FL 33331
954-385-8434
info@commonboundaries.com