Deborah Stamps, EdD, MBA, MS, RN, GNP, NE-BC, CDE, FADLN, FAAN
Dr. Stamps is the founder and chief executive officer for Deborah Stamps Consulting, LLC. Dr. Stamps has almost forty years of progressive healthcare leadership and is an internationally recognized authority on workforce development, diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, nursing education, and leadership.
She has held various roles, from LPN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, Vice President of Quality, Patient Safety and Innovation including founding President of the Rochester General College of Health Careers and the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at Rochester Regional Health.
Dr. Stamps created the professional academic workforce (PAW) model to advance the educational and economic mobility of underrepresented minorities in nursing through establishing partnerships between healthcare, community, and academic organizations. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on the innovative, collaborative nurse leadership model, the Chief Nursing Officer Council, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, workforce development and academic clinical practice partnerships. Dr. Stamps is a 2023 Academy of Nursing Fellow, the recipient of the Center for Nursing NY Driscoll Award and is a National Black Nurses Association 2024 inaugural Fellow in the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing (FADLN).
Dr. Stamps holds membership in a few professional organizations such as the American Nurses Association, the National Black Nurses Association is currently the First Vice President and life member of Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. and has held offices including chartering President of Beta Ch Chi, Inc. in Rochester NY, Dean of Membership and Financial Secretary and Northeast Regional Director.
Dr. Stamps earned a certificate as a practical nurse from the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center, AAS in Nursing from Monroe Community College, BSN from SUNY College at Brockport, MS and the Gerontological Nursing Practitioner at Nazareth College, a MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an EdD from St. John Fisher College. She is nationally certified as a Nurse Executive by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®) through the Institute for Diversity System at the Society for Diversity. Dr. Stamps became an independent certified coach, teacher, and speaker with the John Maxwell Team.