DEB SCHUELKE

Deb is an expert in communication.  Great leaders need to be great communicators, and she is here to help elevate leadership by offering training and support to help people communicate more effectively with their teams.  She brings almost a decade of experience teaching undergraduates a wide range of communication topics, including interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational communication.  Her experience with international and American Students from all walks of life has cemented her belief that people are more alike than they are different – we sometimes just need to adjust our perceptions to see it.  Leadership is an art, but it has a foundation of science, too, and Deb can help explore and refine all of the leadership potential in your organization.  

She spends a great deal of time wrangling her children, with one in college, one starting high school, and one in elementary school.  Her husband Austin is a grain farmer, operating a family arm which has spanned several generations. 

Deb’s 2023 Word of the Year: LAUNCH – to begin something or to send something out, such as a ship or a rocket.

I like all of the implications of the verb launch.  Not only does it indicate that something special is beginning, but that the action is purposeful and goal-oriented.  To launch a vessel also means that you’ll have the opportunity to explore something new.  It’s easy to think of challenges that come with change, but I want to remember that change also brings the opportunity to reimagine what life can be – that when you launch, you’re blazing a path to exciting new possibilities .