Dr. Debra Dupree is a Conflict Coach, Business Mediator Extraordinaire, and Phenomenal Transformational Trainer and Keynote Speaker. She works with the up-and-coming, management-challenged, motivated-to-achieve entrepreneurs, and the executive suite to develop conscious leadership. She helps people master their relationships by learning to connect, listen, and engage to create emotionally intelligent workspaces where compassion, care, and concern are dominant features in how people connect. Leading consciously creates psychological safety for improved performance, positive employee relations, and increased profitability.

She is the founder and president of Relationships at Work, Inc., a consulting practice founded in 2011. Dr. Debra combines her 30 years of experience in psychotherapy, mediation, and conflict coaching to help people discover their emotional intelligence by working through anxiety and depression to recover from the drama and trauma in their past. People who work with Dr. Debra through her training and coaching programs learn to break free from the past and uncover new levels of presence, authenticity, and happiness.

Today, she resides in the lovely seaside community of Coronado, CA, with her two Yorkshire Terrier/Pomeranian dogs, Wolfie and Snickers. Her two children, Erin and Brett, are in college at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo where they study architectural and mechanical engineering, respectively.

Debra has two books in the works based on her 2014 doctoral dissertation on the Psychology of Good Bosses versus Bad Bosses. The first is titled The Science of Compassion:  Discovering Your Emotional Potential for Drama-Free Living. The second is titled Leading Consciously: Five Pillars for Managing 360: Up, Down, and All Around.

Major accomplishments: Among the top ten trainers globally for SkillPath Corporate Strategies, Dr. Dupree was recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of the top Psychotherapists in San Diego.

The Federal Executive Board of Los Angeles recognized her as “Mediator of the Year” for her insights in resolving workplace disputes.