Get Your Golf On! Your Guide for Getting In the Game

Debbie Waitkus, speaker, author and consultant is the president and founder of Golf for Cause. She is passionate about helping others Turn Golf into Gold, enriching their lives both personally and professionally.

A successful businesswoman who was a latecomer to the sport of golf, she quickly recognized how perfectly business and golf fit together. Debbie credits the success of her business golf events to addressing and delivering what the customers’ want. A true advocate of the sport, she is a founder and managing partner of the National Women's Golf Alliance — evaluating and certifying golf facilities for how well they "Roll Out the Green Carpet™" for women, and past-president of Women in the Golf Industry. Debbie donates a portion of the proceeds of her book Get Your Golf On! Your Guide to Getting in the Game to the Marilynn Smith Scholarship Fund, advancing the opportunity for girls to play golf in college.

A thought leader who speaks regularly at golf industry functions, Debbie appears in numerous media. She is the recipient of the 2012 YWCA Sports Leader Award, 2012 Eller School of Management Entrepreneurship Award and a 2005 finalist for the Athena Award. She also contributed a chapter to Teeing Up for Success, published by the EWGA in 2014.

Prior to founding Golf for Cause, LLC, Debbie was president of a 37-year-old, $130 million private mortgage banking firm, where she attributed golf as one of her keys to success. Mother of two, she sits on a number of community and professional boards and, with her husband, Jack, owns Video West, Inc., a 30+ year-old audio, video, lighting rental and staging company.