Experience & Expertise
At a Glance
Leader
Executive Expertise
Healthcare Administration
Financial Management
Entrepreneur
Executive advisor
Strategist
Facilitator
Mentor
Trained Expert
Notable Credentials
30+ Years CPA (retired)
Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (retired)
Certified High Performance Coach
Certified Trainer in Jack Canfield's Success Principles and the Canfield Methodology
Success Principles Leadership Council
Storyteller
Speeches, Stories & Songs
Award-winning author
Award-winning publisher
Inspirational Speaker
Singer/Songwriter
Workshop Leader
Storyteller & Creator
Then Life Added Another Kind of Experience
Some things can only be learned by living them.
For decades, I built a career helping leaders and organizations navigate complexity, transition and change.
Then, at 48, change came for me.
My husband, Harry, died unexpectedly—and in an instant, the life I knew disappeared.
What followed wasn't a professional exercise in managing change.
It was personal.
Grief. Questions. Unexpected signs and synchronicities. Travel. Writing. New relationships. Creativity. And eventually, an entirely different understanding of what it means to move through change when you cannot see the road in front of you.
While continuing to serve my professional clients...
Writing became Song of the Cardinal.
The book led to speaking.
Speaking opened other doors.
And somewhere along the way, music arrived too.
But something more important was happening beneath all of it.
My personal transformation wasn't separate from my professional experience.
It deepened it.
I hadn't stopped being a strategist when I became a writer.
I hadn't stopped being an advisor when I became an artist.
I was bringing more of myself—and more of what life had taught me—to work I'd been doing for decades.
Today, I don't separate professional wisdom from lived experience, or strategy from humanity.
I bring all of it to everything I do.
My Newest Offering Brings it all Together
A culmination of professional expertise and lived experience
For years, I've used sixty-day periods in my own life to focus attention, make decisions, create momentum and move something meaningful forward.
No two Sixtys have looked the same.
Some began with a clear goal.
Others began with little more than the knowledge that something needed to change.
And every one unfolded while real life kept happening.
Over time, I began to recognize what made those sixty days so powerful—not simply the goal or project, but the combination of clarity, sustained attention, deliberate action, reflection, adjustment and support.
Then something clicked.
What if I took that personal framework and brought to it everything I'd learned across decades of professional work?
Leadership and strategy.
Teaching and facilitation.
Certified High Performance Coaching.
Success Principles.
Implementation and accountability.
Creativity, curiosity and the lessons I've learned from navigating change in my own life.
That idea became:
Shift It in Sixty.
An intentionally small, live experience designed to help people move something that matters—while learning more about themselves along the way.
You bring the “it.”
I bring the Sixty.
The first Shift It in Sixty begins October 17.
And There's More...
After decades of leadership work — and a deeply personal journey through grief, creativity, and renewal — I came to understand something important:
My work is no longer confined to a single role or discipline.
It lives in the space where experience, intuition, and creativity meet.
That's why I'm so excited about Shift It in Sixty.
But my work takes many forms because people encounter transition and change in many different ways.
Sometimes I'm working alongside an executive or organization navigating a consequential decision.
Sometimes I'm speaking to a room.
Sometimes connection begins through a book, a song, a book-club conversation or one of the experiences I've created.
And sometimes it's one person saying, “Something needs to change. I'm ready to do something about it.”
Different people. Different rooms. Different seasons.
But the intention underneath the work remains remarkably consistent:
To provide leadership, guidance and inspiration when something is changing—or perhaps ready to.
If you need an experienced, thoughtful partner to help you navigate what comes next, please explore the ways we might work together.
Ways to Work Together
Here's to What Comes Next!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Whatever brought you here, I hope you found something that sparked an idea, opened a possibility or simply made you curious.
Take a look around. Explore what resonates. And if you'd like to start a conversation, I'd love to hear from you.
If you're not quite ready for a conversation, you're welcome to stay close by joining my email list for reflections, updates and early news about new books, music and offerings.
Cheers to Possibility!
Cynthia
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