About me
Cynthia Scott Ph.D. M.P.H.
Strategic Consultant
Leadership Professor
Author
Executive Coach
My focus has been a deep curiosity about what conditions helps people thrive, regenerate, and transform, and a conviction that this capacity could be built in individuals and organizations. This sparked my research and writing about burnout prevention, personal and organizational resilience, and development of agile and change capable leaders.
I enjoy seeing and unwinding patterns in individuals, teams and organizations to release creativity and innovation. I have coached leaders at all levels, led product and strategy development teams and designed global leadership development initiatives. I support purpose driven leaders across a broad range of organizations, startups, government, and non-profits.
Strategic Consultant
I apply experience and research from cultural anthropology, psychology, health behavior change, leadership development and large-scale systemic change to bring strategic rigor and human centered insight to create innovative approaches to moving culture and performance.
I apply experience and research from cultural anthropology, psychology, health behavior change, leadership development and large-scale systemic change to bring strategic rigor and human centered insight to create innovative approaches to moving culture and performance.
Leadership Professor
Emeritus Professor at Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco
As a member of the Core Faculty at Presidio Graduate School for 10 years, I designed and taught the Core Leadership courses (self-team-organization) , mentoring/advising over 1,000 MBA and MPA sustainability entrepreneurs and change agents.
Director of Executive Certificate Program in Sustainable Leadership
Outstanding Faculty Award 2015 for Teaching excellence
Outstanding service and contributions to field of Sustainable Leadership
Author
I apply research from multiple fields to create roadmaps for personal and organizational performance. I delight in creating tools and practical guides that inspire and catalyze new choices and behaviors.
Living Your Values
Connecting Personal, Family, and Organizational Values to Build Purpose and Clarity. A practical guide for individuals, families, teams, and organizations who want to act with greater alignment, purpose, and integrity.
Leadership for Sustainability and Change
A concise, practical and energizing distillation of what is working for today’s most successful sustainability leaders. Provides a clear set of actions you can take to generate transformation.
Getting Your Organization to Change
Tools and strategies for becoming a change leader. Step by step guide to mobilizing and sustain your organization through the three stages of change.
Take This Work and Love It
The handbook for working in today’s changing workplace. Guides employees to develop five basic skills for success : change, commitment, challenge, control and connection.
Organizational Vision, Values, & Mission
Tools for individuals and teams to create a shared set of values, turn them into an essential mission and generate a vision of a preferred future.
Managing Change at Work
Revised in 2003. Provides hands-on management tools for overcoming resistance, planning and implementing change. Shows how to build employee ownership and increase individual and team commitment. Assessment tools available.
Empowerment
Step by step guide for managers and employees to identify the boundaries of self-management. Shows how to release excessive control and release creativity and commitment.
Self-Renewal
Comprehensive handbook of skills and strategies for moving from burnout to balance at work. Includes extensive self-assessment tools and exercises for dealing with fast paced work environments.
Managing Personal Change
Guide for employees to learn how to understand the fast pace of change and respond in a positive and productive manner. Step by step practical exercises to build skills and confidence.
Take This Job and Love it
How to Change Your Work Without Changing Your Job. Do for yourself – what excellence does for successful companies.
Stress Map
Personal Diary Edition. The Ultimate Stress Measurement and Self-Assessment Guide Developed by Essi Systems.
From Burnout to Balance
A Workbook for Peak Performance and Self-Renewal.
Heal Thyself
The Health of Health Care Professionals.
Eldercare
A Guide to Clinical Geriatrics.
Change Management
The book helps managers work through organizational change with strategies for providing positive leadership while dealing effectively with resistance and other trouble spots.
Rekindling Commitment
Keys to revitalizing individuals, the environment they work in and the organization itself. Targeted at mobilizing individuals to become the CEO of their jobs and leaders of organizational change. Executive Book Club main selection.
Mastering the Change Curve
A toolkit for managers to assess their current response and have a conversation about upcoming change and the tools for mastering change.
Executive Coach
Throughout my professional career, I have worked at the intersection of leadership and change. I help individuals, teams and whole organizations see and unwind patterns in complex systems to release creativity and innovation.
I work with leaders in a broad range of industries (healthcare, technology, education, financial services, military, and retail), responsible culture change, leadership development and organizational transformation.
My fieldwork as an anthropologist led me to appreciate and value the creativity of global cultural diversity and community resilience. My practice as a psychologist taught me to listen deeply to unlock hidden patterns to achieve resilience, performance and values alignment that supports mission-aligned, values-driven, sustainable organizations.
I have translated my research and experience into writing books, designing programs, assessment tools and models to guide and inspire people to become creative sources of resilience for their teams and organizations.
Wisdom and Breadth
Education/Certification:
I earned my Ph.D. in Psychology from the Fielding Graduate School, and M.P.H. in Health Planning and Administration from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley (Regents Scholar).
Licensed Clinical Psychologist California
Executive Coaching Training Certificate
The Leadership Circle Certification
Regenerative Leadership Course
Client Experiences with Cynthia
“Cynthia always brings an expansive sensory lens, and the capacity to see beyond the normal way of thinking. She has generated many creative ideas and reflective insights in our sessions.”
— Chene S.
Change Consultant, Coach and Author“Cynthia’s insights were not only profound but deeply relevant to the realities of African family enterprises, and the clarity with which you delivered them made a lasting impact on the audience.
Her ability to illuminate the interplay between change, resilience, and family dynamics sparked meaningful reflection and conversation among participants."
— Dr. Dennis O. Oteng
Host of Africa Family Business Summit
“Her work continues to be relevant and helpful to leaders grappling with change and transitions in both their personal and professional lives.”
— Ok Kim
Program Manager, Executive Leadership Programs, Canada School of Public Service
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