Debbie McCarthy is a Co-Founder and the Operations Director of Training Leadership Consulting. She is a certified GE Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Change Leadership Expert.Debbie brings 15 years of Process Improvement,training, coaching, project management and facilitation experience to the Training Leadership Consulting.

In 1995, Debbie was recruited by General Electric’s Financial Assurance division in the U.S. Debbie became a Black Belt at General Electric, where she was responsible for leading several strategic Six Sigma projects and training initiatives. One of Debbie's crowning achievements was a large-scale transactional project,  which was recognized with an Outstanding Quality Award for saving over $1 million in net income. Debbie and her team was selected to present the project to Jack Welch and his leadership team.

As a certified Master Black Belt, Debbie coached more than 20 teams and trained more than 150 Green Belts at GE. In addition, she became a certified Facilitative Leader and began teaching team facilitation and coaching skills, a critical element in the success of any Six Sigma initiative.

In 2000, Debbie was promoted to Vice President of e-Commerce for GE’s Auto Warranty Services division. In this role, she championed major strategic Six Sigma projects that reduced cycle time for insurance contracts from 21 days to 45 minutes.

Debbie Moved back to South Africa from the USA in 2001 and Co-Founded Training Leadership Consulting through which she continued to work with General Electric training and coaching GE’S Change Acceleration Program (CAP) and Six Sigma to GE Medical Systems and Power Systems. In addition, Debbie worked with Breakthrough Management Group (BMG) for 6 years, as a Master Black Belt helping large organizations in South Africa and internationally implement Change.  Debbie’s passion is Curriculum Development and she has created and facilitated courses in Change Leadership, Train the Trainer, Leading High Performing Teams, and Lean Six Sigma.

Debbie brings her experience in working with executives, deploying six sigma, and facilitating change to this learning organization. Debbie and her Partner Rick have grown this organization by 100% year on year and developed Training Leadership Consulting into a Customer Intimate premier service provider of process improvement methods.