Leadership Training
We deliver leadership learning experiences. Your employees can benefit from building trust and rapport, having executive presence, and initiating courageous conversations in a productive way. Small group training gives you the opportunity to create or reinforce positive skills and culture with your teams.
The Human Advantage in an AI World
As AI gets smarter, human connection becomes more valuable.
The future of leadership isn’t about choosing between people and technology—it’s about leveraging both. In this energetic and experiential session, you’ll explore the human skills that become even more essential as AI becomes more capable, including trust-building, communication, creativity, adaptability, and influence. You’ll walk away with fresh insights, practical techniques, and a renewed confidence in the uniquely human abilities that will always set great leaders apart.
The Leadership Team Advantage
Strengthen the trust, alignment, and cooperation inside your leadership team
In this coaching-intensive program, your team will actively work on developing organizational health: building a cohesive team with minimal politics, high morale, high productivity, and minimal confusion. Cynthia facilitates in-person, group meetings and one-on-one coaching to help the team smooth out confusion, get aligned on mission, and build stronger bonds between leaders based in part on a book study by author Patrick Lencioni. We work together over several quarters to reinforce new habits, address deeper layers of misalignment, and to build positive, solid working relationships.
Building Resilience Through Constant Change
When there’s no script, lead anyway
The biggest challenge leaders face today isn’t leading through one change—it’s leading through the next one before the first has settled. In this highly experiential workshop, participants learn how to reduce change fatigue, build resilience, and help their teams stay focused when the future feels like typhoon-fueled waves. Grounded in research on adaptive leadership, psychological safety, and how adults learn, this session is packed with practical tools leaders can use immediately. Along the way, we’ll learn a few principles from the world of improv, where success depends on listening well, staying present, adapting quickly, and moving forward together when no one has a script – all in front of a paying audience!
Beyond Bullet Points: Presenting with Charisma
TED-style talks that focus on stories
When was the last time you watched a presentation for fun? like, you chose it? If you did, it was probably a TED-style talk… and there are good reasons for that. TED-style talks transform data into stories. This style removes all of the hum-drum bullets and noise and translates science into narratives and images that are riveting to the audience. In this workshop, you will learn the principles of influence, storytelling, and metaphor to be the singular best presentation in the crowd.
The Fast Formula to Presenting
Public speaking with no time to prepare? That’s a nightmare for most people! Don’t sweat those unplanned presentations anymore. Learn and practice a quick model for creating a mini-presentation that will make your audience think you had days to plan instead of minutes.
Leading without Losing It
Insulate yourself from burn out by learning the best ways to collaborate (or not!), how to stay inspired, and how to build a wildly supportive team. This is ideal for teambuilding.
Collaborate Like an Improv Comedian
Ever wonder how professional improvisers on the show Whose Line Is It, Anyway? can create comedy at a lightning pace? Learn their secrets to lightning-fast, productive collaboration in this hands-on workshop.
The Weapons of Influence
If you are in sales or marketing, you need to know the top ways you can inspire prospects to give you their time and commitment to buy. Learn how to use the social forces already at work to sway opinions your way and get people’s attention.
One-two Punch of Persuasion: Power and Likeability
Do people like you at work, but don’t take you seriously? Or perhaps people take you seriously, but don’t invite you into the inner circle where decisions are made? You could have an imbalance of perceived power and likeability. Learn why these traits are important and how to increase your levels of each.
Coaching and Giving Feedback
New thinking on feedback says that being “radically transparent” and negative does NOT drive change in your organization. Humans respond better to what Marcus Buckingham (or Good to Great) recommends as a formula for giving feedback: What’s going well right now? What has worked in the past? How can you apply that to the future? This workshop teaches the latest thinking on coaching and giving feedback and has managers practice in class.
“Cynthia’s ability to fine-tune good speakers into great speakers is phenomenal. Before working with her, I never imagined how strong an impact a speaking coach could have on a presentation. I and several people on my team have worked with Cynthia. Whenever I’m asked who can provide great public speaking coaching, Cynthia is my first recommendation.”
— Donna Wilkins, Founder and CEO of Charity Dynamics
“It was a pleasure having you lead us in teamwork and communication exercises. I am amazed that even with a short period of time, you could deliver such important lessons to the entire team. Everyone participated, understood the messages, and had a blast! I am certainly more tuned in to the level of complexity in our workplace, how many balls we’re all juggling, little things I can say and do to support my colleagues, and what I can do to help make things run more easily. And, I’m looking forward to next time!”
— Kimarie Wolf, Marketing Programs Manager, Planar
