You’re smart and successful, and to the outside world, everything looks fine. But on the inside, you know somethings gotta' give.

If you want to create more:

- confidence in your ability to handle the opportunities that are headed your way.

harmony and balance between a sucesssful professional life and a rewarding personal life.

- opportunity to gain traction on a more satisfying career path.

and you want to do it in far less time and with far less procrastination than attempting to fudge your way through it on your own.

Let's have a conversation.

GET YOUR SHIFT TOGETHER

Signs it's time to reach out ...

• You're actually looking for another position or career but not gaining any traction and having difficulty troubleshooting the obstacle.
• You’re beginning to feel like you've put what you want or know you need to do on the back burner for too long.
• You're wondering if you'll be able to bridge the gap you feel between what is expected of you now vs. what may be expected of you in the near future.
• You're current way of working is already impacting the quality of your life, and you want to create and be held accountable for putting some less stress inducing boundaries in place.
  
• Everything and everyone else seems to get prioritized over your personal goals and dreams..
  

PRIVATE COACHING AND CONSULTING CAN HELP YOU:

• Discover what matters deep down at the core so you can determine where you want to spend your energy.
  
• Attain clarity around priorities, so you know what you need to say “no” to and “yes” to.
  
• Create realistic and achievable milestones and leave you feeling energized and motivated in a healthy way.
  
• Feel accomplished and successful as you move towards achieving the balanced life you deserve.
  
• Wrangle that nasty inner critic and tap into what supports you.
  
• Experience deep self-discovery and awareness that will serve as an inner compass for you now and in the future.
  
• Uncover and understand your strengths and how to leverage them in a way that supports your performance.
  

Let’s take the Next Step Together.

Welcome!

My Mission:

To help all that work with me to get out of their own way and on with living the life their soul intended.

Your Work + Your Relationship with Yourself and Others + Your Contribution to the World =

​Your Life

Work that You Enjoy + Healthy, Happy Relationships with Yourself and Others + Contribution that Resonates with You = Your Best Life and a Life You Love!

"For every million people hacking at the leaves of a challenge there is one chopping at the root. Deborah is that one in a million. She’s the real deal!"

Wendy Perkins, MSW

You've come to the right place!

I See You.

​You're feeling frustrated and, at times overwhelmed with items in your life that have been on the back burner for too long, and you're procrastinating the very things you know you need to address. You cringe to think of your last half-hearted attempt. It may even be career related.

​Let's do something about that.

If you are sick of wasting time on doubt, hesitation, second-guessing, and inner critic anxiety.

If you are tired of the endless stream of stuff, you're allowed to pull your attention in every direction but the most important ones to you personally.

If you know that 'times a wastin' and you want to create momentum and concrete results.

If you're ready to finally bridge the gap between how you are currently showing up for yourself and how you want to show up so you can move forward with confidence then...

Deborah's Bio

Use this time to connect with what is most alive in you, overcome blind spots and bring forth your very best year. Enjoy far more meaningful success in your life, and career. As an award-winning trainer, recognized leader and coach, Deborah brings an open, logical mind and a warm, curious, and helpful heart, to all her work. She never forgets that there is more to life than 'the job'. That the work we love and relationships we cherish are the stuff of a happy life. She never lets her clients forget to give place in their life for fun and growth and forward movement always.

Deborah's Experience

What’s at Stake, if you continue this way?

If you are here, you are probably a successful professional, business owner, leader, or entrepreneur seeking someone who will tell you the 'kick in the butt' truth that will serve you, not just one more voice telling you what you want to hear. That combined with compassion that you never wanted; but know you desperately need and you'll be on your way to creating the balance you and your workplace deserve.

DISCREET & PRIVATE SESSIONS

• We connect for a minimum of two (2) sessions/per month
  
• Sessions are 50 minutes (in person, via telephone, or zoom)
  
• Unlimited email and text support in-between sessions
  
• Session recordings available for download and replay
  
• 100% mobile friendly dashboard for tracking progress, connecting with Deborah, scheduling appointments, etc,
• Sliding scale option available if finances are a barrier to coaching
  

Results

Results

Life and Career Balance: Changed My Life

I have found my time with Deborah to be invaluable. Her insightful coaching has helped to change my life. Today, I feel worthy, empowered, and free. I know that everyone is on their own journey and mine is just beginning. She is caring and it shows in her coaching style. She is a cheerleader and unconditionally supportive. I cannot say enough how valuable her guidance has been. I highly recommend her services to anyone who is looking to find their way to a better life. Christina G. Faculty, Howard Community College

Results

Life and Career Balance

It just works. Whether it's Deborah's integration of support and being direct or her ability to get to the root of a matter and address it directly, she's clearly talented in the field of coaching and helping people both identify and achieve what they're looking for. If you're looking for results you found the right person.

Alexander Rand - Private Practice & Asst Professor Wurzweiler School of Social Work

Results

Life and Career Balance:

I appreciate Deborah's approach to coaching and her coaching style. Her approach was to clarify (through conversation and documentation) that I need to be open to questions and NOT be judgmental of those questions, but to be open to what the question is trying to uncover about me and my thought process. Her skill of question-asking is IMPRESSIVE. She asks the questions to force me to think and approach an opportunity from a different perspective, but most importantly......to answer the question for myself! - Rebecca Bowman, Director Customer Operations, Clorox Company

Results

Life and Career Balance:

Deborah is one of the best among all people I've ever worked with. When you really get to connect with her, you will find an incredible person with unique skills! Deborah helped me at a crossroads in my career while inspiring and motivating me to dream bigger. I credit her for helping me to understand myself and what was important to me. I am now at a great place where I am no longer afraid and challenge myself to the next level. - Nicole Huang , PMO Leader, Inovations Solutions Leader

Results

Life and Career Balance:

I reached out to Deborah in the midst of a professional crisis where I was feeling stuck. She responded quickly and calmly. Her skill guided me through the quagmire I was in efficiently. Within minutes, I had clarity and ideas about how to handle the next steps. Deborah asks skillful and thought-provoking questions that guide you to the answers about what is most important. I recommend her to anyone in need of clarity and guidance. - Ariel Wootan Murkling, Private Practice Therapist, Audacity Counseling, Provo, Utah

Experience and Insight

Deborah’s openness and extensive professional development experience were evident from my first interaction with her. Her career-building insight and ability to accurately forecast potential obstacles and needed adaptations have proven to be uncanny. I look forward to every session. Julio G . Int'l Business Law Attorney

Career Focus: Hightlight of my Year.

I worked with Deborah as a coach during a difficult period of professional transition. I am an entrepreneur and I was skeptical anyone would truly understand the situation I was facing. Deborah immediately did and continuously went above and beyond as my executive coach during this transition and beyond. Her guidance helped me grow as an individual and as a professional' - Joel Primus President and Founder - Naked, Inc. and Producer at Raising Global Citizens Film.

Career Clarity & Confidence

I've had the pleasure of working with Deborah during two key transitions in my professional career. Her support was invaluable.

She grasps complex business and interpersonal dynamics quickly and creates an environment for introspection and problem-solving with careful consideration of all parties ideal outcome.

Her grounded coaching approach is deft and never fails to help me create clarity around the next best steps for myself professionally that support my longer-term personal goals.

More recently she has coached me through a business restructuring.

Working with her has created the clarity and confidence that needed to take the next step that works to my strengths, develops my leadership skills and provides a winning scenario for both my clients and my business partners.

She is an excellent Executive Life and Career Coach and gets my highest endorsement. Todd. S. - Senior Marketing Strategist - Philadelphia, PA

Career and Life:

Deborah clears up the fog. She has advised me in two distinct phases of my life over several years-- personally and professionally. In both, she was a true expert in listening, organizing my ideas, and facilitating my discovery of a more purposeful path and effective methods. I could not have achieved nearly the same results by talking to friends or family on the same subjects. Deborah understands this like a science. I have recommended her to others, and they have likewise been impressed and grateful.

Rachel Stone, Sr. Business Intelligence & Research Analyst, Washington DC

Life and Career Focus:

Deborah helped me adapt to the changes that have occurred in the job market since I last went job hunting. Her guidance in job targeting, resume optimizing, and knowledge of the current job hunting landscape have proven to be incredibly helpful. - Jeremy Brown, Editor, U.S. News & World Report

Career and Life:

Deborah is first class and made a huge positive impact on me and my life. I have become significantly more accountable in both my business and personal life due to the work that I have done with her.

​She is not for the faint of heart as she is the real deal and has helped me become a better version of myself. I can not say enough about her and the impact she has made on me and my life. Kansas City, Kansas

Life Focus: Stronger and More Confident

I just wanted to thank you again for all of your help the past year and a half. During our time, I have truly felt myself become a stronger and more confident woman who is gaining control of her mind and emotions. Although I have my moments, I now look at those moments as little challenges or tests to continue practicing rather than letting those moments set me back. I have noticed that I have shorter amounts of time in between my irrational and rational self. I am becoming more and more aware of my actions as they are occurring and feel myself taking initiative to see every moment as it is, rather than seeing it with a cloud of irrationality and emotion.

I've become mindful and present, two things I have wanted to be for a long time. While I am well aware that I'm still a work in progress, I now have the tools I need to continue my practice thanks to your guidance and constant support. I am now a lot closer to a rational, peaceful mindset.

Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart. - Alexandra Reggi, Director Graphic Design, NYC

Life and Career Focus:

Deborah has been a tremendous resource for me as I prepare to take the next steps in my career path. I acquired her coaching at a time when I felt lost and completely without direction in what I wanted to do and where I was headed. Deborah is not only interested in helping me find a job I am passionate about... she has helped me in so many other aspects of my personal and professional life. I look forward to each of our sessions as a time to reflect, think, and feel deeply about my life, habits and future. I cannot recommend her enough! Not only am I doing better, but I am feeling better about myself along the way. To me, that has been invaluable.

Balkis A. J.D, Georgetown University Grad, California State Assembly

I have had the pleasure of working with Deborah over the last month and although our work is not yet complete, I have found insight that has eluded me for years and conquered a number of fears that had been holding me back. I was wary of the process in the beginning but that was just the fear of the unknown. Once I had my first conversation with Deborah, I was immediately put at ease and we went right to work. I've found new direction in my life, built new confidence and due to the work we've done together, I'm about to embark on a new chapter in life. Working with Deb had been invaluable and I would highly recommend her services to you! - Timothy (TJ) Moon

Definitely Recommend: Sound Coaching Ear - Delivers Results

Deborah is a great choice for executives looking to find their way to their next career move. She is caring and thoughtful in her approach to managing clients, not forcing them to bend to her will like some coaches. I would definitely recommend Deborah to my friends and colleagues as someone who can lend a sound coaching ear that delivers results.

Brian K. Bridges, Ph.D. Secretary of Higher Education for the State of New Jersey

Career:

Deborah helped me at a time my career and business were in transition. She has the ability to listen and glean from you the important information necessary to work through your process. A great communicator, an astute and timely business woman who has an articulate and sensitive communication method. She connects to people in a very special way. - Marlene Weber, President, Marlene Weber Corporation, Hudson Valley, NY

Life and Career:

Your coaching has launched me into a new and amazing direction in my life. I LOVE the results I'm having. The new me is getting great reviews from my family, my friends, and most importantly, for the first time, from ME! - Richard Ortiz, Directior, IT, Finance and Planning, TIAA, NYC

Life and Career:

Deborah is a rock star! She helped me identify the blindspots that were holding me back and then held me accountable for creating the change I wanted. I have new awareness of strengths that I used to think of as weakness. She gave me the tools I personally needed to find courage in myself and be the person I was born to be! - Jeanne Cooper, Co-Founder, Brainstorm Health Systems, Hudson Valley, NY

Life and Career:

I came to Deborah When I was feeling down and had lost my way in my desire to transition my career. She is a compassionate and proactive listener who understood my journey, enabling me to embrace the idea that even strong women have hardships, and she got me back on track. She has taught me to be positive, kind and resilient, in the face of overcoming a challenge.

In my family relationships, she helped clarify misconceptions I had. The clarification led me to a more mature perspective and helped me let go of anger and strengthen my personal boundaries.

When I started seeing Deborah, I was a control freak. With her help I realized the truth: I was exhausted and exhausting. I was waiting for everything to fall into place before I would take real decisive action. She helped me realized that the one thing that I honestly had control over was myself. Step by Step she taught me to let go of what everyone else was doing or not doing and go after what I wanted without apology. She helped me have the courage to act, and not just talk.

I am grateful that I took a chance on myself to invest in her expertise because I have grown so much. She has the gift of helping people see the patterns that are keeping them stuck and holding them back. She is a healer.

Tracy, Journalist, NYC

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Deborah is a dear colleague and I've know her for several years. I am consistently touched and in appreciation of the way Deborah shows up for her life, her commitment to her children, her husband, her community and her calling as a coach. She tells her truth and keeps her priorities clear.

​She genuinely practices what she teaches. She's the real Deal.

-Wendy Perkins, MSW, Therapist and Coach, Aspen, Colorado

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I feel like I have a fire under me, and all the right tools in hand. I'm so motivated.

Thank you for believing in me, and for helping me develop a strategy for success. How lucky are those of us who get to have these powerful conversations with you! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Career Focus:

For me, Deborah acts as the perfect cognitive mirror. She allows me to see and hear my own thought processes, including where I tend to derail myself. She acts as a second set of brains that allows me to align my thoughts with my values and distill those thoughts into a cohesive action plan.

​In essence she's helping me right my ship.

Eric Randolph, Investment Portfolio Manager

Life Focus

When you are ready to get clear. When you are ready to stop with the excuses that are holding you back. When you are ready to do the work. Deborah Guy is there to help you on your journey.

I had enough, and I felt like I had lost my 'voice' and my mojo. A friend suggested using Deborah's services, and 15 minutes into my first call I could see why my friend spoke so highly of her. Deborah gets right to the heart of the issue and asks the tough questions. She has given me the tools I needed to improve my communication skills and in turn, my career and my relationship.

I have gotten so much out of the short time I have been working Deborah. Give her a call. You won't regret it.

Career Focus

I was going on and on about how discouraged and frustrated I was, and about how much trouble I was having with a new script idea when a friend confided that he had recently started working with a Life Coach. My reaction was typical. When I heard the words, "Life Coach", I smiled and nodded, but inside I was rolling my eyes - big time. The whole thing just sounded, frankly, silly to me. But not anymore. The impact on my life and career has been phenomenal! In the past, I've always set goals, but no one was there to hold me accountable and support me in staying on track when I broke promises to myself. Joseph Doria, Manager of Operations, Perpetual Education Fund, SLC, Award Winning Film Producer/Director

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In just a few months she went from being constantly stressed out to a self-assured woman.

She was getting out of debt, advancing her career, pursuing her dream and much happier in her marriage. When I asked her what she was doing, she told me she was working with Deborah. That was all I needed, I called Deborah's office the next day. On a scale of 1-10 reading a self-help book is like a '2' and working with Deborah is a 10+" - Business Owner, American Fork, Utah

Life and Career:

Deborah’s approach got me on track fast both personally and professionally. I never realized how much my personal 'mind game' was zapping my energy and focus. - L. Hodgin, Musicalme.com, Santa Cruz CA

Life and Career Focus

My life and all its various aspects felt as though they were in shambles. My personal life was a mess – a divorce, unhappiness, discontent and conflict.

My professional life was a mess – disenchantment with the company, with my management, with my role.

Every aspect of my life seemed out of alignment, out of balance, and I felt as though I was drowning underneath all the demands and expectations of everyone around me. This lack of balance, this lack of clarity in my ability to evaluate situations within my life with clarity – both personal and professional - revealed itself directly in my performance as a life partner, as a father, and certainly as a highly compensated employee of a major corporation. I was at the brink of voluntarily quitting the company I had served for so long, as my career became the scapegoat focal point of blame for much of what I felt ailed my life.

It is at this point that a close friend of mine suggested that I try working with Deborah Guy-Skriloff of Crossing Bridges Coaching. I was dubious at first, but I was also at the end of my rope, so I decided I had nothing to lose by trying.

Today, you would not recognize me as the same person. My personal life is happy and contented. My professional life is reinvigorated – the energy, drive, and creativity which my employer valued is restored. Rather than treading water and performing poorly until I was fired, or quitting in a funk of disenchantment – I am again performing at a superior level, and leading large teams in the accomplishment of company strategies. And I’m smiling every day.

My participation in the professional life coaching expertise of Deborah is directly responsible for that turnaround. This is not psycho-therapy. This is not “feel good” counseling either. This is the application of proven methodologies, practices and approaches toward finding the way to success in all aspects of one's life. This is learning and re-learning skills toward achieving a balance, and a perspective on life – which supports accomplishing one's goals both personally and professionally. And it works. I’m proof.

The insights and skills to which I’ve been exposed, that have helped return me to an energetic and accomplished leader of large teams – are directly applicable in today’s rapid paced, extremely challenging business environment. A core asset of any strong company is its best people. The knowledge, skill, and experience embodied in those people is the result of huge investment on the part of such companies. I am a firm believer, through real experience, that professional coaching can be a key to not only building, but perhaps more importantly - maintaining high performance teams… the hallmark of any successful organization. Protecting your company's investment in your high performers can be achieved through coaching services such as those provided by Crossing Bridges. I would urge you to consider how such services, training, and consultation could benefit your company's bottom line in the very real areas of job performance, job satisfaction, and reduction of staff turnover.

Sincerely,

James W. Wanke

Vice President, LexisNexis

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