Deborah Nobes, Principal Consultant
Deb is a calm, compassionate leader with a track record of building teams that deliver results at the highest level.
She launched Violet Consulting in 2021 after working in progressively senior roles within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Opportunities New Brunswick, Government of New Brunswick and NB Power.
With an education and career grounding in journalism and newsrooms, Deb is a skilled writer and collaborator who listens deeply to clients to understand truths, motivations and context before proposing solutions.
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A natural facilitator and skilled negotiator, Deb creates the conditions necessary to strengthen relationships and rally diverse perspectives and personalities toward common goals.
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Deb is also a strategic communications and engagement specialist, delivering projects that connect using creativity, purpose and a strong sense of story. ​
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She has supported CEO’s, premiers, ministers and corporate leaders through rough transitions, new beginnings and emergencies with calm, credible advice.
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As a journalist, she has told thousands of stories of Atlantic Canadians from the personal to the political, through elections, plane crashes, natural disasters, conflicts over natural resources, community heartbreaks and celebrations. Most recently, she helped lead CBC New Brunswick through the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 provincial election and the racial reckoning that followed the death of George Floyd.
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She is experienced in the following sectors: Clean energy and utility, environment and climate change, Indigenous engagement, consultation and negotiation, infrastructure development, government, post-secondary education, economic development, emergency response. Deb holds a Bachelor of Journalism (hons.) degree from the University of King’s College and has extensive training in leadership, techniques and methods for meaningful public participation according to IAP2 principles, conflict resolution, mediation, facilitation, negotiation, anti-racism and workplace diversity and inclusion.
Deb is also an inveterate Atlantic Canadian, newshound and wilderness explorer. She skippers Mayfly, a 30-foot C&C sailboat on Grand Lake, and has canoed hundreds of kilometres of New Brunswick's wild rivers with her family, particularly in the Restigouche watershed.