If you have ever seen Deb in action, you know she will take you on a roller-coaster ride to the edge of your own limits. Just when you think you can’t go on, she will thrill you with the simplicity of discovering your hidden power and potential. Deb will help you find your vision and live your passion. She will demonstrate how you can put your fears and past failures behind you and will inspire you to transform your life in every way.

Using her own journey and life challenges, Deb can help you discover how every setback can become a springboard of opportunity and an inspiration to transcend the limits of life and to experience your own potential. She is a living example that—no matter how physically and emotionally destructive the experience—there is no such thing as failure.

Deb doesn’t tell you what to do. Through her programs and processes, she helps you develop your own expression of greatness as an individual, a team member, or a business owner. Her professional experience as an educator, corporate trainer, sales manager, speaker, and workshop facilitator has put her in front of tens of thousands of people across the country. She communicates with every age and experience level, young and old, sales professionals, entrepreneurs, project leaders, managers, and CEOs. No matter who you are, you will be impacted by her wisdom and moved by her clarity.

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Deb's Bio -

After earning her BSED (Bachelor of Science in Education) at Illinois State University in 1978, Deb spent eight years teaching and coaching in New Mexico schools.

Leaving the teaching field, she entered the corporate arena where the educator in her continued to emerge. During this ten-year period, she became engaged in staff training and development for American Heart Association and the University of Phoenix. She also trained and managed sales teams for The Equitable Financial Services. It was during this decade that she developed her corporate skills, some of which were acquired when she attended graduate school, earning 24 hours toward her master’s degree in coaching, counseling, and management.

Driven to become independent, she started her own company Expanding Horizons in 1990 in which she focused on helping teens. In 1992 she broadened her outreach by creating Breakthrough Learning Systems, Inc. (BLS), where the board-breaking activity became her hallmark.

Three years later, building upon her background in corporate America, she launched ICAN Institute, which she operates today out of her office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She travels nationwide inspiring audiences with her “Can Do” messages. Over the past decade, she has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. Tens of thousands of people have benefited from her programs.

Deb’s newest venture is the creation of ICAN 4 Life, a health and wellness program that enhances all areas of life. (Financial, Physical, Emotional, and Mental Wellness). ICAN Institute partnered with IBA, Integrated Business Advisors, in early 2009 to bring her synergistic health and wellness program to an international network of professionals throughout the world.

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