Debra Vinci | Leadership Tuning

Debra Vinci bridges the arts with business in a remarkable way as an executive coach, business consultant and master facilitator.  She is also an incredibly soulful singer, an attentive listener and a talented visual communicator. I met Debra in the mid-nineties when I first moved to Boston and took her Blues Around Town class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She taught it in an experiential way, bringing us to blues jams and venues throughout the city. She also told us about her professional life as a strategic planning consultant who specialized in graphic facilitation. 

One of her early mentors, David Sibbet, taught her about the power of metaphor, color and shapes to unleash imagination and create shared meaning. Having experienced the power and importance of mentoring in her own learning and professional development, Debra pays it forward by coaching and mentoring others. When Debra saw my interest in graphic facilitation, she offered to mentor me and invited me to shadow one of her sessions. I was blown away by her ability to process complex meeting information and foster collaboration using visual formats, or what she terms “graphicizing.”

Debra continues to work at the intersection of arts and business and told me about her exciting music-based program called Leadership Tuning. She teaches leadership skills to business professionals through content-relevant songwriting and group performances accompanied by Boston blues musicians. Debra uses her thirty years of experience as a performing artist, organizational consultant and executive coach to ignite leaders’ passion for music and teach them how to authentically connect and communicate, with clarity and courage— through song.