Hi, I’m Cyndi!
I am a certified trauma recovery coach with 25 years of corporate experience, and I built this work because I know firsthand what it is like to navigate a professional life when the standard advice does not account for your reality.
MY STORY
I spent years working inside a large financial corporation as a trauma survivor. I showed up, performed, advanced, and managed my career the same way most people do: by pushing through, figuring it out, and hoping the advice I was following would eventually start working the way it was supposed to.
Sometimes it did. Often it did not. And for a long time I could not figure out why.
What I eventually understood is that my professional history was shaping how I operated at work in ways that the standard career playbook was not built to address. The confidence that was supposed to come from good performance kept getting undercut. The networking that was supposed to feel natural kept feeling impossible. The negotiations I was supposed to have kept not happening.
It was not a skills problem. It was a fit problem. The advice was not built for me.
That realization is what led me to pivot from my corporate career into coaching. Not because I wanted to help people recover from what happened to them at work, but because I wanted to help them move forward from it. There is a difference, and that difference is the foundation of everything I do.
MY APPROACH
I am a career coach with specialized training in trauma-informed practices. That combination is intentional.
The career coaching side means I work on real, concrete career outcomes: job searches, salary negotiations, difficult workplace navigation, promotions, transitions, and leadership development. That is the work.
The trauma-informed training is what makes my version of that work different. It means I understand how professional history shapes professional behavior, and I build strategies around that reality rather than ignoring it.
What that looks like in practice: we do not spend sessions processing what happened. We spend sessions figuring out your next move and building the capacity to make it. The past is context, not the curriculum.
CREDENTIALS AND TRAINING
Certified Trauma Recovery Coach (CTRC), International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching
Certified Group Trauma Recovery Coach
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master of Education in Instructional Systems Technology (M.Ed.)
25 years of corporate experience navigating professional environments firsthand
Specialized training in trauma-informed career development practices
WHAT I AM LIKE TO WORK WITH
I am direct. I am warm. And I am not here to help you feel better about being stuck. I am here to help you get unstuck.
That means I will tell you what I actually think, ask the questions that matter, and push back when I think you are selling yourself short. I will also meet you exactly where you are, because I know that where you are is not always where you thought you would be at this point in your career, and that is okay.
The people who get the most out of working with me are ready to do the work. Not perfectly, not without fear, but genuinely ready to move.
Work With Me
I offer two ways to get support, depending on where you are and what you need most right now.
🤝 Group Coaching. The Resilient Career Academy.
A group coaching membership for professionals who are ready to move forward in their careers and want practical strategies and community support to do it. Includes group coaching calls, a monthly Q&A, paid Substack content, free workshops, and access to the RCA community on GroupApp.
👤 Individual Coaching.
One-on-one coaching for professionals who want personalized, focused support on a specific career challenge. Sold as a separate package outside of the RCA membership.
If anything on this page resonates, I would love to connect. The best next step is a free discovery call, or just exploring what is available inside the Resilient Career Academy.
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