Refreshingly Pragmatic

MB Deans—managing partner of Douglas Partners—is a workforce matchmaker and optimizer with an acute ability to quickly assess critical issues.

You won’t get sugar-coated, nutrition-free solutions that make you all jittery then bring you crashing down. She’ll match talent with need, transform potential into production and customize solutions to individual situations. Neat. Simple.

Her business experience is global in scope and practical in execution. She’s worked with major businesses through downsizing, reorganizing, merging and rapid growth challenges. Solutions she’s designed and implemented allowed each organization to transition successfully and move forward.

She’s worked with individual professionals crafting resumes and coaching them on job search strategies, interviewing and negotiating.

MB is a popular public speaker who talks to professional groups, industry associations, and the state government on topics that include economic trends, labor economics, and the challenges of global staffing and global teams.

She’s a member of Women in Consulting and the Northern California Human Resources Association. She has earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Rutgers College.