As a speaker, author, podcaster, and consultant, Deb Coviello shines a light on the C-Suite experience, helping leaders to navigate challenges with confidence.

Known as The Drop In CEO™, Deb’s superpower is lowering the temperature and elevating conversations with empathy and patience.  

Deb’s soothing voice, both spoken and written, reflects her hard-won equilibrium, having emerged from her own tumultuous childhood with peace of mind. She accomplished this through much reflective work; it’s something she now imparts to leaders the world over as an in-demand as a professional moderator, speaker, and podcast guest. Deb’s dulcet tones are complemented by her dynamism as a communicator, with wit and playfulness to spare.

Her first book, “The CEO’s Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track” (2021), follows the CEO’s Hero Journey through the unknown, guiding them to their own Peace of Mind. The journey continues with her follow-up, “Secrets of the C-Suite,” due next year. Deb’s work as an author is complemented by her Top 1.5% Apple podcast “The Drop In CEO,” where she sits down with CEOs and industry leaders who are doing the work of transforming their businesses from the inside out. 

The Founder of Illumination Partners, Deb has served as a Fractional Quality Leader, CQO, and COO, having earned her bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s first technological research university.

Deb relishes her roles as a mom, wife, foodie, and world traveler. She is also a medaled curler, receiving the 2017 Arena National Curling Silver Medal issued by United States Curling Association.