Deborah L. DeHaas is CEO of the Corporate Leadership Center, a non-profit executive leadership development organization. She brings significant leadership, financial and corporate governance expertise garnered from her nearly 40 years of experience at major audit, assurance and consulting firms. A certified public accountant, she has extensive experience with financial, accounting, internal controls and enterprise risk management, and deep expertise on governance developed during her career at Deloitte.
She previously served as Vice Chairman and National Managing Partner of the Center for Board Effectiveness at Deloitte, where she also held roles including Vice Chairman and Chief Inclusion Officer and Vice Chairman and Central Region Managing Partner. She earlier held positions of increasing responsibility at Arthur Andersen. As a former member of the Value Reporting Foundation Board, she contributes well-informed insights on a variety of ESG matters, and is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow. She holds a bachelor's degree in management science and accounting from Duke University.