Cyndi Gueswel

Cyndi has been helping leaders, leadership teams, and organizations achieve ambitious goals for decades. Her clients are changemakers—visionaries and leaders of organizational and civic work oriented toward the greater good. Cyndi listens deeply so that she can reflect back the genius, strengths, and blindspots of individuals and teams, helping them move forward with purpose and inspiration.

Drawing on a variety of frameworks and tools, Cyndi helps people and organizations navigate complex change with wider perspective, more graceful collaboration, and greater joy.

Cyndi brings extensive knowledge of human development and systems change to her work. She is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher and uses this framework to increase self-awareness and compassion in individuals and teams—foundational tools for collaboration and mission-driven work.

Before launching her career as a coach, Cyndi served as a senior executive at the national nonprofit, EL Education. There, she led the organization’s approach to professional learning in schools, as well as the training and development of its staff.

See more in Life and Work with Cyndi Gueswel, published by VoyageDenver in 2020, or at LinkedIn.

 Areas of Expertise

Experience

Coaching

• Professional Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West and credentialed by ICF, Cyndi has decades of experience coaching leaders across for-profit, non-profit, and governmental contexts

• Practitioner of The Leadership Circle Profile, a highly-respected 360° feedback tool and rich framework for leadership development

• Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher and Accredited Practitioner of Integrative Enneagram iEQ9 reports

• Directed professional development for 60+ instructional coaches across the nation

Executive Leadership 

• Served as a Senior Executive at EL Education

• Awarded for Exemplary Service

Leadership Development 

• Cyndi has worked with a wide variety of leaders and leadership teams, from a K-12 school in the rural community of Silverton, CO to biopharma companies based in the Bay Area.

• Crafted and facilitated 100+ multi-day leadership gatherings and ongoing cohorts

• Co-designed and facilitated a multi-year mentor leader initiative for 8 years

Professional Development Events

• Managed a suite of events for groups up to 1,200 participants, overseeing content and logistics

Librarianship and Teaching 

• Served on the Board of the Loveland Public Library for 5 years, 3 as chair

• Master's-level certification as Library Media Specialist

• Designed EL Education's virtual Resource Library

• Designed, built, and managed a new library for Erwin Middle School in Loveland, CO

• 20+ years of experience in adult education

• 15 years of experience in secondary education