Debra brings 30 years experience in HR, with senior level roles at Fortune 500 companies like Gap, Quintiles and Honeywell. An expert in global reward and employee communication, her teams have won numerous awards for their innovative solutions and she was named Employee Benefits professional of the year in 2012. Her first book, a practical model and guide to Effective HR Communication, was published in 2015 and her second, Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement comes out in Feb 2018. She is a teacher for WorldatWork and speaks at conferences worldwide on reward and company culture, as well as writing on Reward Gateway’s company blog.