Debra Woog,

Debra A. Woog, president of connect2 Coaching, partners with her clients to address questions of identity, vision, and conflict. She specializes in coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs to accelerate their individual development and enterprise growth.

Debra founded her coaching and consulting practice in 1999, after more than a decade of researching and managing successful organizations. She has since guided hundreds of clients through admission to top MBA programs, transitions to satisfying careers, and for-profit leadership with heart.

Prior to connect2, Debra advised nine technology start-ups as Director of People Strategy for Cambridge Incubator. The Boston Globe profiled Debra for her outstanding abilities to select talented candidates, grow and motivate employees, and resolve conflicts between people as well as between organizations. Previously, as a researcher at Harvard Business School, Debra published four cases depicting career development theory in action and contributed to the award-winning book Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America(HBS Press, 1999). She has authored six articles for Inc.

Debra is trained as a mediator and an ombudsperson. She earned her B.A. in Psychology and American Studies from Wellesley College in 1989 and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1997. MIT Sloan awarded her the Miriam Sherbu e Scholarship for leadership and community service. She relishes time with her son and daughter when they're not at elementary school.