Deborah Tompkins CLU

As the principal and founder of Tompkins Consulting Companies, Deborah consults with small to mid-size employers and non-profit organizations in the specialties of benefits and human resources. Through Tompkins Benefit Group, she actively works designing, implementing and managing cost-effective employee benefit plans with an eye for recruitment and retention strategies and long-range affordability. Through Tompkins HR Group, she steers a new path in the realm of HR consulting for employers who have need for HR services and want to be assured that they are implementing HR practices that make a difference and get results.

With 30 years of experience, she provides clients with invaluable perspectives having worked within large corporations but running her own small business - meeting the future with an understanding of the past.

Deborah has been a featured speaker on insurance and employee benefits topics for regional business conferences, a frequent guest speaker to the Non-Profit Fiscal Managers and Executive Directors Networks for Technical Assistance for Community Service (TACS) in Oregon, and has taught finance classes through Portland Community College for the employees of OECO, Columbia Sportswear and the Bonneville Power Administration. She authored the insurance chapter for Oregon Women and the Law, published by the Oregon Commission for Women. For 6 years she has taught the Advanced Benefits course through Portland State University’s Professional Development Center for students desiring to achieve the HR certification from PSU.

Deborah has participated on advisory councils for a variety of Oregon insurers - Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon, Kaiser Permanente, Pacificsource, Pacificare, PACC, and Lifewise. She has been a repeat guest on the Weekend Business Coach, 1410 AM, and she has been a technical information source to the Wall Street Journal, the Portland Business Journal and the Bend Chamber of Commerce Business Journal, addressing employee benefit and human resources issues. There have been feature articles published in National Business Insurance magazine along with several HR trade publications and the Society of Human Resources online magazine.

Currently Deborah participates on the Advocacy Board for North by Northeast Community Health Center supporting the clinic's efforts to provide access to healthcare and reducing health disparities so prevalent in our communities.

Deborah received her undergraduate degree with high honors in nutrition and community education from Washington State University and obtained her Chartered Life Underwriter designation from the American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She holds agent and consultant licenses in the insurance industry for the states of Oregon and Washington.

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