Deborah Dogba is a certified Jonh Maxwell Coach, Speaker, and Trainer. She is a Business & Organizational Development Strategist with a history of helping entrepreneurs, businesses and communities improve, grow and succeed. Born and raised in Togo (West Africa), she has traveled extensively and brings a unique and global perspective to leadership, businesses and entrepreneurship. Deborah brings over 15 years of extensive experience with program expansion & development, process improvement as well as capacity building, and organization positioning both in government and private sector.

As the Operations Director of the Leadership Africa Summit 2018 and 2019, Deborah oversaw the production of the Summit and the management of logistics, hospitality, and volunteers’ chairs. As a seasoned mentor, through the Summit, Deborah helped young professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs connect, become empowered, develop and promote themselves.

Lead Consultant and Founder of Business Seals Consulting Firm LLC, on a mission to empower, train, support, and bring viable solutions to businesses and entrepreneurs, she has a BS degree in Organizational Psychology and a BS degree in Business Administration, Banking and Financial Markets. She uses her leadership skills to serve on the board of Le Jardin Familial – a nonprofit that focuses on families’ wellbeing and harmony as well as the Global Partners in Hope, a nonprofit building hospitals in Togo, Mali, Niger, and China with expansion plans to other regions.

As a successful entrepreneur, Deborah owns Talents of Africa in the Midwest – an organization that promotes the artwork and handmade crafts of women from remote areas in Africa. as well as Afro Swag Media & Magazine, an African Diaspora magazine that helps promote African game changers and innovators in North America and the US.

Alongside her son, Deborah co-founded ND Kicks, a basketball shoe design concept that aims at providing comfort and improving the performance of players.

Deborah also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa (2011-2014) where she had the opportunity to promote local businesses and women associations through capacity building, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship classes. Deborah recently joined the board of advisors of Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty, a nonprofit with a mission to fight poverty and help the poor build resources to get ahead.

In December 2019, Deborah was the recipient of the Afro Excellence Awards 2019 “Afropreneur” Award category. This award is specially designated to recognize and affirm individuals in the community who have displayed a spirit of Entrepreneurial and who stand out in what they do.

When she is not busy helping entrepreneurs succeed, you can find her volunteering and doing community work at Do Space, Essential Pregnancy Services (EPS), and RISE (the previous Defy Nebraska) in her current home city of Omaha.