About Dr. Deb

Our Mission

“Your Success In Business and Life”

For Dr. Deb Osgood, President and CEO of Osgood & Associates, Inc., helping others to succeed in business transcends a mere mission—it embodies her personal dedication. After years of starting and growing numerous businesses, she came to understand that success starts from within. From knowing who you are, what you want, and how it will help others.

Whether managing a multimillion-dollar investment portfolio for a global corporation, transforming a struggling manufacturing firm into an industry leader, or creating a robust small business online community, she has consistently found that success starts with believing in yourself. This belief naturally leads to acquiring whatever it takes to move ahead and live life fully and purposefully.

Having crafted a successful process for helping people to discover their natural talent, Dr. Osgood enhanced the model to help people apply that talent to start their own business.

To date, Dr. Deb has facilitated the successful launch of thousands of new self-employed ventures, aided in the growth of numerous existing small businesses, and empowered millions of people globally as a public speaker and host of iHeart Radio “Kick Ass Movers and Shakers.” She is the author of several works, including “Kick-Ass Leadership,” “Get Optimized,” and “Team Building: Turn Personal Strengths into Group Success.” Her small business training programs have been utilized by government, nonprofit, and academic institutions including state vocational rehabilitation and workforce development agencies.

She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the New York Times, NASE, Entrepreneur, and the Associated Press. She has also appeared as a guest on New York’s WPIX, Boston’s WCVB-TV Chronicle, WMUR News, and Chicago’s Real Talk Radio. Additionally, she served as an international spokesperson for IBM and the World Bank on topics concerning women and minorities in business, founded the National Entrepreneurial Research and Knowledge Center in Nigeria, and provided mentorship through the U.S. Department of State’s Iraqi Businesswomen’s Partnership program.

Her substantial contributions have led to numerous awards including:

  • Small Business Administration (SBA) Women in Business Champion
  • NH Self-Made Person of the Year
  • Enterprise Magazine Enterprising Woman of the Year
  • 4-Term SBA Office of the National Ombudsman Regulatory Fairness Board Member
  • NH Business Review Outstanding Women in Business
  • AdvenaWorld Best Speaker Award
  • JAG Youth Leadership Award
  • SNHU Alumni Hall of Fame Award
  • Multiple Commendations from the NH Office of the Governor, NH Senators, and Congressman

Words from her clients…

“Your input was like breathing pure oxygen! I am empowered by your shared insight. Thank you for providing me with guidance, positive focus, and most of all hope. My feet feel like they have solid ground on which to walk. Thank you for believing in me!”
 
“As a counselor and a small part of this VR [vocational rehabilitation] thing we have here, I appreciate very much the way you help us to become more effective in making self-employment a viable option for our participants. Thanks to your approach, so many more individuals with disabilities can succeed in their own business.”
 
”Dr. Deborah, I cannot tell you how much we loved your presentation! It (and you) is/are FABULOUS! Thanks for bringing such important knowledge to our kids…and for being so very passionate about it!”
 
“You Rocked! The staff were engaged, participated, asked great questions. Everyone was really working through the information. Thank you for being such an awesome self-employment leader and for being so organized and helping our agency in so many ways!”
 

Create a Business and Life You Love!

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