Debra Corey is a highly experienced and award-winning HR leader, world-class speaker, and four-time author, and has been named as one of the top 101 global employee engagement influencers and HR Most Influential Thinkers. She’s had a varied career, working for global companies such as Gap Inc., Honeywell, Merlin Entertainments, and Reward Gateway, where she’s developed and delivered HR strategies in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement. In 2019 Debra founded her own company as Chief Pay It Forward Officer, where she’s inspiring and helping others to bring out their inner rebel and drive business change.
Over the course of her career, Debra has been fueling the employee engagement “Rebelution” through a variety of ways, including speaking at events and leading workshops around the world, teaching professional courses, and writing. An accomplished author, Debra has published four best-selling books, the first one about employee communication strategy and best practices (Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programs with Impact), and the second one which talks about why and how to be an engagement rebel (Build it: A Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement), her third one which focuses on company values as a strategic and effective business tool (Bringing Your Values Out to Play), and her most recent book which talks about driving appreciation through employee recognition (Appreciate it! The Playbook for Employee Recognition).
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