Cynthia Scott, Ph.D., M.P.H. Founder

Dr. Cynthia Scott has over 20 years of experience as a coach and consultant with a broad range of organizations in the US and abroad. The quality and depth of Cynthia’s hands-on-experience have made her the preferred executive development resource for assisting individuals, teams and organizations adapting to changes in process, culture, technology and strategy.

She has co-authored nine books (Rekindling Commitment, Managing Change at Work; Managing Personal Change, Empowerment, Organizational Mission, Vision and Values; Take This Job and Love It; Take This Work and Love It; Getting Your Organization to Change, Self-Renewal). Dr. Scott created assessment tools Mastering the Change Curve, (HRDQ press (2003) and Stress Map (1985) and a wide variety of innovative capability development modules and processes. Reports of her work have been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Stanford Business School Newsletter, and Worthwhile Magazine.

She is the former West Regional Change Practice Leader at Towers Perrin and the founder of Changeworks, a San Francisco-based organizational consulting firm. She played a leadership role for the global design team at Deloitte and Touche, which produced the change management methodology and tools for SAP implementation. Her book Getting Your Organization to Change contains the basic architecture and tools that address the underlying behavioral and organizational changes that work to reduce resistance and increase engagement.

Ms. Scott’s expertise includes organizational effectiveness, leadership and management development, cultural transformation, senior team development, and the strategic planning and implementation of organizational change.

She has co-developed and facilitated the “Windows in the Glass Ceiling Workshop” and the year long Executive Development Program for the Executive Women’s Alliance. As a coach she is certified in the PDI (managerial and executive versions), Lominger and Meyers Briggs. She is a licensed Psychologist in California and has a certificate in Executive Coaching from the Professional School of Psychology.

Her clients have included Capital One, Blue Shield, Veraz, Atlas, Benjamin Moore, Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Intermune, Pioneer Hybrid, Abbot Labs, Bank of America, Monterey Herald, New England Telephone, Internal Revenue Service, ITT Hartford, Union Bank, Deloitte & Touche, Estee Lauder, National Semiconductor, IBM, and other organizations in financial, healthcare, high technology, and government sectors.

She earned her B.A. in Anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley; her M.P.H. in Health Planning and Administration at the University of Michigan; and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute.

Suzanne Simmons