Consultant

 
Deborah

Deborah Yungner

  • Founder, CEO & Chief Visioneer, ERBUS Inc., LifeGRID Technologies
  • “U.S. Woman Inventor of the Year”
  • 2014 Mrs. Eagan Minnesota International, Mrs. Minnesota People’s Choice Award; Engaging young girls and women in STEM, Science and Technology.
 
 

Deborah Yungner is the Founder, CEO, Chief Visioneer & Strategist of ERBUS Inc., LifeGRID Technologies. Deborah’s corporate career in technology business development, marketing and sales spans over 2 decades launching many first-ever technologies and innovations to the Education, Business, Healthcare and Government marketplace for Fortune 500/5000 Companies before emerging as a highly awarded inventor, innovator and entrepreneur. Deborah is the inventor and patent holder of the first mobile utility grid and infrastructure system for emergency situations, disaster relief, special events, military and commercial business applications. She has received an unprecedented number of business, technology, and innovation awards throughout the world including Woman Inventor of the Year for the United States, U.S. Best Technology, Finance and Commerce Innovator of the Year, The Minnesota Cup Next Breakthrough Idea Finalist Award and The Tai Pai, Taiwan Int’l Humanitarian Technology Award.

 
 

Speaker

Deborah is also a recognized local/international speaker in business and education. Highlighting a few more extraordinary accomplishments: In the Fall of 2016, Deborah was invited to speak at the World Federation Congress of Colleges and Polytechnics in Vitoria Brazil on the Role of Professional Education in the 21st Century. Her platform encouraged strengthening holistic student success and engaging young girls early in science and technology. Additionally, she spoke at the DLA (Distance Learning Administration) National Education Conference in June 2017, Jekyll Island, GA, on the topic of increasing young women into the STEM fields of science and technology. In 2015, Deborah spoke on the topic of Being The Best Version Of Yourself at the Happiness Leadership Conference with Dr. Verna Price and on the topic of Innovation and Creativity at the Wayzata Rotary Business Ignite Conference.

 
 

Thought Leader

As a business, industry consultant and thought leader, Deborah leverages her passion for business, people, humanity and human potential by bringing her expertise, experience, wisdom as well as insight to helping business, education, state/local government, military and community leaders tap their power and potential to achieve accelerated, sustainable growth for their organizations. This includes igniting vision, sparking ideation, innovation, people-culture development and transformation, training, education, roadmaps and plans!

 
 

Board Member

Additionally, Deborah has served and/or currently active on several Boards, committees, community nonprofit organizations and as a consultant, advisor or mentor to small business owners, young professionals, women and minority businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors. She provides business advisory counsel, expansion and growth strategies to organizations including the U.S Department of Army; Minneapolis Army Recruiting Battalion, University of Minnesota Office of Technology and Commercialization Venture Center, The Minnesota Character Council, Minnesota State Board of the Greater Twin Cities YMCA of the North Youth In Gov’t/Center for Youth Voices, Hennepin Healthcare/Hennepin Healthcare Foundation, University of MN Masonic Children’s Hospital Winefest Committee, Girls Taking Action, YWCA, and Carponentry, a University of Minnesota Duluth modular home building/manufacturing spin-off startup business.

 
 

Family Life & Life's Passions

Deborah enjoys spending time with her husband, Steve, all the family, children, grandchildren, friends, colleagues, neighbors, her Love Thy Neighbor Bible Study Group (she and Steve co-founded), travel, interior design, health and nutrition, working on her autobiography (to share insights and pioneering accomplishments made to the United States from an immigrant, military, entrepreneurial first-generation Chinese-Japanese American family committed to service to Country) and sharing family care for her 90 year young mom (also her life coach and world advisor), Keiko, who keeps Deborah active in her Japanese culture, crafts, the MN Japanese Nikkei Project and on top of her game in Sequence. Deborah loves inventing new gourmet dishes in the kitchen as well as preparing her secret signature dish of a low fat, 8 cheese 3 meat sautéed spinach garlic mushroom lasagna (which the Minnesota Gophers Basketball Team attest it’s the best lasagna ever!) and creamy sherry pheasant over sautéed peppers, sausage and wild rice! Deborah’s culinary skills can be attributed to her role as the Sous-chef de cuisine in the kitchen growing up assisting her father and grandfather who pioneered Minnesota’s Chinese restaurant business and industry introducing Chinese cuisine to the City of St. Paul and the Greater Twin Cities area.