Deborah de Vries is a SVP of Talent Management, Organizational Development and Co-Head of Diversity for Citi North America Consumer Banking in New York. She is responsible for building organizational capability through strategic HR initiatives as they relate to talent management, organizational and cultural change, leadership development, team dynamics and conflict management.

Deborah graduated with a doctorate in Organizational Behavior in Human Resource Management from the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Canada. She specialized in group decision-making under risk and uncertainty, emotions impact on negotiation, and gender differences in leadership style and effectiveness.  Deborah has published a book, Hope, Groupthink and the Decision to Invade Iraq: Group Hope and Risky Group Decision Making, and book chapter, “How to Conduct a Legally Defensible Performance Appraisal” in What Smart Trainers Know.