Debra Raybold, PCC

Why That Essential Spark?

That Essential Spark is the moment when something clicks—the clarity, inspiration, or insight that propels you forward toward new seen possibilities. It’s the beginning of big or small transformation.

Your inner catalyst, that essential spark knows you’re meant for more. When you listen to its call, it is the recognition that your potential and your desire is worth exploring, and most often, is within reach -  and that now is the time. 

Coaching fans your spark into a flame, helping you navigate calm shores, shifting sands, blurry paths, and stormy waves to achieve lasting growth.

If that essential spark in you is signaling that it’s time for a change, whether it is to do something different, to be different in how you show up, or to create new outcomes in what you do already, I bring years of experience, and evidence based models to impactful conversations that foster exploring what’s going on, discovering what the new trajectory is, and getting on the path to get there.

“Be like a sea turtle; at ease in your own shell.”

— Bill Copeland

Credentials

Over 15 years of Coaching experience.

  • Certified Hudson Institute of Coaching, Executive, Leadership, Career and Transition Coach

  • Neuroscience of Leadership, Middlesex University & NeuroLeadership Institute

  • Certified  Positive Psychology Coach, Positive Acorn (Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener)

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC) - International Coaching Federation

  • B.A., Psychology, University of New Hampshire​

Outcomes

A lifelong learner with multi-faceted training:

  • Emotional Intelligence Assessments (EI/EQi)

  • Meyer Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) 

  • Breakthrough Coaching Professional

  • ACE Coach Accelerator Core Practitioner

  • Planning for Change, The Hudson Institute of Coaching

  • ​Conscious Business Coaching Certified

  • MBS Leadership Assessment 

Past Roles

Over 20 years of leadership experience.

  • Chief Operating Officer for a physician-owned multi-specialty group (also held Director of Marketing and Physician Recruitment)

  • Director, Brain Health Center of a hospital-based community brain health center​

  • Executive Director of a YWCA

  • Executive Director of a shelter for the homeless.

  • Director of Innovation for a multi-service line behavioral health organization

Advanced Training and Certifications

Those that work with me describe the outcomes as:

  • Feeling better equipped to face the demands of their job in ways that they can remain authentic and aligned with their values. 

  • Gaining self-awareness around what's important to them in who they are and not just what they are trying to do.  

  • Sharpening their skills and strategies around communication, and navigating through high stake situations, change and uncertainty.  

  • Understanding the dynamics involved in important or difficult situations and arriving at at an action plan for responding.  

  • Embracing and leveraging their strengths toward more confidence, agility and resilience.

Top Reasons People Choose Coaching

  • Expanded influence, executive presence, and communications savvy is needed to be more effective and get to the next level.

  • Burnout is on the horizon and it’s important to tackling what's depleting energy, motivation and resilience.  

  • A confidence boost, finding authenticity and some quieting of an inner critic voice would unleash more of your strengths.

  • A sounding board and objective thought partner to facilitate sense-making and decision-making.

  • Balance and wellbeing has been replaced by overwhelm amidst expectations and constant change.

  • Gaining perspective and insight on digesting feedback received or crafting a message to deliver.