About
Are you seeking to create a new strategic direction for your nonprofit organization, nonprofit division, or your life? What about seeking creative ways to raise funds for your nonprofit business or new pool project?
If you are looking for answers to these questions, then Strategic Growth Coach will work as your partner. Debbie Hesse founded Strategic Growth Coach in 2021 to help individuals and nonprofits succeed at their highest levels by maximizing their available resources through an organization’s creation and execution of strategic planning initiatives.
Debbie Hesse
CEO, Strategic Growth Coach
She/Her/Hers
Debbie Hesse led the USA Swimming Foundation, an Olympic sport foundation, by creating and fulfilling its mission of “Saving lives & building champions – in the pool and in life.” She led an organizational annual budgetary increase of more than 300% excluding USA Swimming support and an endowment growth of $10 million. During her tenure, the Make a Splash initiative – an initiative to teach every child in America how to swim - grew to teach almost 2 million children annually.
Hesse’s Olympic experience also includes serving as President/CEO of USA Diving where the sport saw a resurgence in international success, earning the best results since the 1980s including winning four Olympic medals in 2012; and where she was directly responsible for doubling sponsorship and broadcast revenues. She also served as Executive Director of USA Synchronized Swimming, where she increased the annual budget by more than 250% in seven years, driven primarily by dramatic corporate partner revenue growth. During her tenure, the team won Olympic Gold in Atlanta in 1996.
Hesse served as Assistant Manager/ Marketing Director for the International Swimming Hall of Fame Aquatic Complex; the Membership Coordinator for the American Swim Coaches Association; and a Sales Representative for Procter & Gamble.
As a competitive swimmer, Hesse competed for Texas A&M.
In her free time, Hesse loves to spend time with her two girls and friends, travel, visit the Colorado mountains, kayak, stand-up paddleboard, workout at Orangetheory and read. She is learning to cook and for the first time in her life, enjoying time in the kitchen.
Debbie Hesse
CEO, Strategic Growth Coach
Why STrategic Growth Coach
Debbie has always been motivated by making a difference and changing organizations and individual lives for the better. As a forever student of personal growth and development, she strives to be a catalyst to help transform your nonprofit or yourself.
Her coaching approach anchors in designing and executing strategic initiatives. Debbie will guide you or your nonprofit through the strategic planning and implementation process in a way that aligns all stakeholders and assures everyone is working together to achieve the same goals. In addition, she provides additional support to clients by bringing in Subject Matter Experts, when needed.
Debbie brings 25 years of experience in leadership, strategic planning, fundraising, sports marketing, high performance, corporate partnership, diversity programming, and organizational and volunteer leadership.
Strategic Growth Coach will bring you or your nonprofit:
A wealth of nonprofit business experience to facilitate the strategic planning process for your medium or small nonprofit or a Division within a large nonprofit
Years of successful nonprofit experience to offer expert consulting for increasing your fundraising - especially in supporting your Foundation or new aquatic facility
Years of experience to provide executive leadership coaching for individuals
Testimonial
“It had been six years since our organization had updated its strategic plan. It was time to reinvigorate the organization!
Debbie was masterful at guiding the Board and our key stakeholders through the proper exercises and discussions to get the Board aligned on a robust strategic plan to take the organization to a new level. Further, she provided coaching for the next 10 months which allowed the Board to make the Strategic Plan a living document by helping us develop the Operating Plan for the next year.
Debbie’s deep experience as a CEO and fundraiser helped us move thru the process efficiently and effectively. Thank you, Debbie, for helping us all do our jobs as trustees better and making our Strategic Plan a living document.”
-Karen C. Rosolowski, President, USA Artistic Swimming Foundation
Get Started With Debbie
debbie@strategicgrowthcoach.com
(719) 425-5456
Based in College Station, TX
Tailored packages and pricing are available depending upon you or your organization’s wants, needs and size. Contact me to discuss how we can craft a plan that works for you!