Deb Best, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Owner and Principal of Deb Best Practices, has more than 35 years of state-wide and national business, recruitment / IT recruitment, change management, stakeholder communications and senior human resources / people operations leadership experience for Fortune 5, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer and supply-chain publicly and privately held companies, including General Electric, Trans World Entertainment and Boston Scientific, as well as non-profit, statewide and national associations, academic, medical and public-sector organizations, including the State of New York. Central to her work as an HR Practitioner is to partner with leaders at all levels to define and leverage both talent and challenges to meet needs, which in turn maximizes success for both the organization and the individual.  

A graduate of The University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in English, Deb received her SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) certification from The Society of Human Resources Management in 1998, and her SHRM-SCP (Senior Certified Professional) designation in 2015. She is also a trained community (NYS) and workplace dispute Mediator, as well as an authorized Everything DiSC® Partner. Deb was a long-time columnist and blogger for the Albany Times Union’s Women@Work Magazine.