About Our Founder

Debbie Frame is the founder and president of The Leadership Essentials™ Group. Debbie has been coaching since the late eighties. Trained as a coach during her almost 20 year corporate tenure, Debbie integrated coaching executives, managers and supervisors with a demanding aerospace manufacturing management position at a Fortune 10 company. Debbie has had a private coaching practice since 1997, coaching executives, entrepreneurs and professionals.

Her corporate experience is in operations with extensive training and coaching focus in: leadership development and competencies, organizational design, operations management, conflict management, process improvement and problem solving. No stranger to profit and loss, Debbie has had up to $400MM of P&L experience and people responsibility in both union and non-union environments.

Very involved in the coaching field over the last years, Debbie is the former President of Coach U (the largest coach training organization in the world). She holds a B.A. as well as the designation of Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation.

Debbie is a published writer of numerous articles on leadership development and coaching in several professional journals.

 Our Partner

    The Leadership Essentials™ Group is pleased to announce our association with Mickey Parsons of TheWorkPlaceCoach.com and Parsons-Associates Coaching, LLC. Mickey's background includes extensive experience in employee assistance (EAP) leadership, corporate education and human resources, and more than 15 years of experience managing and leading business organizations. He holds a masters degree in educational psychology and numerous professional credentials, including: Professional Certified Coach, Certified Professional Behavior Analyst and Certified EMpoyee Assistance Professional. Mickey is currently completing his Master Coach Certification form the ICF, a designation held by less than 200 coaches world wide. Visit Mickey's site at www.theworkplacecoach.com 

Mickey has served as coach, consultant and workshop leader for more than 50 Fortune 500 companies, including Atlanta Journal Constitution, American Express, AXA Financial Advisors, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cox Newspapers, Olan Mills Studios, Brach Candy Company, UnumProvident, Bank of America, Lennar/USA Homes, McKee Foods - The "Little Debbie" Corporation, McDonalds Corporation, Home Shopping Network and the New York Times.