Deborah Loesch-Griffin, Ph.D., is the owner, founder and CEO of Turning Point, Inc.

Deborah Loesch-Griffin earned her Education Specialist degree in Evaluation (1986) and doctorate degree in Educational Psychology and Child Development from Stanford University in 1987. For the past thirty-two years she has owned and operated a small woman-owned business, Turning Point, Inc. (TPI) that works in partnership with organizations and communities to convene conversations, serve as a social artist for designing and facilitating integrated spaces and events for community groups, and act as a catalyst for change.

TPI’s approaches include program development, management and evaluation; facilitation, coaching and mentoring for non-profits and for-profits and community coalitions in organizational development, leadership, and human resources.

Deborah Loesch-Griffin is a Say-It-Straight (SIS) Master Trainer and is also a Fellow of Creating the Future. She is the co-founder of a social justice non-profit, Community Chest, Inc., in Virginia City, Nevada. Throughout her many roles, she emphasizes both the power of one and the potential of the collective.

In 1998, TPI entered a ten-year partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to co-sponsor the Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) to train and mentor individuals as professional evaluators using a partnership (i.e., empowerment or participatory) orientation. The Center continues to thrive under new leadership and Deborah maintains a partnership with them in her evaluation work.

For the past 30 years, she has served as a trainer, facilitator and evaluator on local, regional, statewide, national and international project. She specializes in rural community development and community youth development initiatives as well as provides leadership training, coaching and mentoring to individuals and organizations in transition to build their capacity to achieve their vision and create social change.

To contact Deborah Loesch-Griffin, please email deb.turningpoint@gmail.com.