Sydney Marketing Communications Consultant and Coach - Debra Shepherd

Business and Communications Strategist

25 years of experience

Aligned business and communication strategy for meaningful, sustainable growth.

I help purpose-led business owners unify their brand voice, increase their visibility and build sustainable success.

Hi, I’m Debra Shepherd

If you’ve been randomly trying tactics to connect with your audience — posting more, saying more, doing more — only to feel scattered, unclear, and unseen, you're not alone.

Throwing strategies at the wall doesn’t create a deeper connection. It creates confusion for you and your audience. It dilutes your message and drains your energy. It is the fast track to burnout.

Whether you're an online expert, personal brand or leading a growing team, I can help you:

  • Clarify your business model and message.

  • Unify your brand voice across every touch point so it resonates deeply with your audience.

  • Build a visibility strategy that supports your energy.

  • Break the burnout cycle — without losing momentum.

My approach is strategic, intuitive and always personal — blending soul and structure to create alignment and lasting impact.

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TO Help you communicate meaningfully, lead well, create success and experience more ease, joy and meaning in life and business.

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The Debra Shepherd Podcast

The Debra Shepherd Podcast

Join me on The Debra Shepherd Podcast where we dive into communication, mindset, business and leadership. You’ll discover tips, insights, practical steps and strategies to help you communicate meaningfully, lead well, create success and experience more ease, joy and meaning in your life and business.

Tune in for short solo episodes and inspiring conversations with extraordinary women in business who take you behind the scenes and share their stories—stories filled with purpose, courage, inspiration, resilience, impact and success. Together, we’ll explore what it truly means to create a meaningful life and a meaningful business.

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Testimonials

  • “Working with Debra has been a great and rewarding experience. She has provided us with top-class customer service and her work has increased our level of brand awareness and engagement across Asia Pacific.  She is trustworthy and committed to delivering at a high level for our business – definitely a great partner to build business success with.”

  • “Debra is very passionate working with her clients, and also passionate about her clients' industries and products/services. She is very supportive, warm and focused. Debra is attentive and comes up with individualised solutions, ideas and suggestions.”

  • “Debra's sensitivity and understanding of my business has supported this process immensely. She offers such freedom through her gentle way and extreme generosity with her support and time.

    Her approach to building relationships was felt from the first moment of meeting. Debra really lives the business values she promotes. This is an extremely rare quality in the marketing business.”

  • “Not only is Debra an incredible businesswoman but she has an enormous heart and genuinely lives and breathes genuine relationship and community building on and offline.”

  • “How Deb described her service was the first light-bulb moment for me. She didn't describe what she does, she described how she can contribute. At the first opportunity I chose to work with her. Having worked with Deb I can now say she's reliable, honest, she is knowledgeable and generous with her knowledge.”

  • "Working with Debra was a wonderful experience! Not only is she a lovely and caring person, she was genuinely interested in both our team and our business. We worked with Debra to review our internal communications, providing a comprehensive analysis of our current strategy. She identified gaps and provided targeted solutions, where her recommendations were perfectly aligned with our goals, ensuring that we were providing the most value for our entire Team. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Debra!"

    - Jocelyn Harris, ANNEES.

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