About

Director of The Center for Wellness Living™ & The Founder of Connect Coaching & Education Inc.™

Cynthia Spradlin
PCC, NBC-HWC, CHC, CPC, MS
Connect Coaching & Education Inc.
Professional Certified Coach &
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach

You CAN Create a Brilliant Living
and Lead a Brilliant Life
-- Cynthia Spradlin

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples"

--Mother Theresa

**Redefining What It Means to Work WELL for a Change**
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Professional Integrative Coaching

Cynthia Spradlin (PCC, NBC-HWC, CHC, CPC, MS)
Known as The Core Focus Coach®, Cynthia typically works with business owners, private practice professionals and mid-career managers who realize the hamster wheel they have been on has been impacting their health and well-being and perhaps even their work performance. She believes that if how we are living and working does not support our vitality or our longevity, it's time for a different approach and past time to redefine success. She works with clients who want to make a brilliant living and grow their businesses (without the burnout), breathe easier, and enjoy more of what truly matters along the way.

With almost 30 years of corporate, consulting and coaching experience working with professionals around the globe, she works with clients to create more ease in all areas of their work and life so they can focus more, stress less, respond better under pressure and accomplish their goals faster while living a healthier, happier life. She is particularly committed to working with professionals in the health and wellness industry, who are committed to walking their talk and building strong, healthy businesses, so they can have the impact they first imagined when they began their education, their training and their practice.

She provides professional coaching, talks, workshops, and assessment services for individuals, companies, organizations and groups in the areas of

Business Growth & Strategic Design
Wellness Living Leadership™
WorkWell Strategies™
Strategic Career Mapping and Design

She is a coaching skills mentor coach and instructor through the Emory University Health Coach Program and through Next in Coaching Academy.

In addition, she also teaches yoga offering private, individual and group sessions, along with travel & wellness retreats.

promoting health ➢ fostering wellness ➢ inspiring excellence ➢ improving performance

Her Mission is sparking positive change with global reach and generational impact by helping people and their organizations to pursue excellence and redefine what it means to "work well" for a change. Through her company and her partnerships, she focuses on offering evidence based coaching programs that support positive, healthy, effective, sustainable change and "successful" outcomes. She also works with clients, leveraging their strengths to enhance meaning, connection and accomplishment in all areas of their work and life.

Education, Training and Experience: Cynthia is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) through the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching (ICHWC). She is also a Certified Health Coach with the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and a trained Health and Wellness Coach through Emory University, where she is now serving as a mentor coach in their Health Coach Training Program and where she has contributed to the curriculum design and delivery. She has also been trained through the Stanford University Chronic Disease Self Management Program.

She earned her designation as a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC). This program required over 385 hours of specific coach training and mentoring and is fully accredited by the International Coach Federation.

She holds a Master of Science degree in Management with concentrations in the areas of Organizational Dynamics & Behavior, International Business and Cross Cultural Studies. She earned her undergraduate BBA in Risk Management & Insurance [Magna Cum Laude with high honors].

Her professional background includes local & global corporate work with additional experience in entrepreneurial and private practice environments. She has worked with business owners, executives, managers and professionals from many disciplines across a diverse range of industries around the globe and is uniquely able to pivot with her clients on a wide array of topics using evidence based methods that support sustainable behavior change.

What clients say: She has been described as the real deal total package - heart-centered, powerhouse coach, speaker and trainer with solid business experience, a creative streak and a strategic sense that is all ... well... simply brilliant....

Testimonials

"I came to coaching looking for guidance in undertaking a job interview..[for] a very lucrative career. [Cynthia] was a terrific coach. She steered me in the right direction and gave me the confidence to compete in a very competitive business. She is the best! " (Retired US Military & Pilot)

"Cynthia is a powerhouse. Her energy and resources were apparent from the first interaction. I left the coaching process reenergized, and with a set of next steps that will be with me for years to come. Excellent experience. Excellent coaching.”
Elias S. (Business Owner & Creative Professional)

"Cynthia's intuitive coaching helped me uncover ideas & a vision that I could not see or articulate. She helped me gain clarity so I could give myself permission to take my business in a different direction ... an original direction that I started years ago. This breakthrough was huge because I've struggled with my niche for a very long time and her coaching helped me get unstuck and create a plan and forward momentum again. YAY! I highly recommend working with Cynthia, she is delightful, compassionate, insightful, and appropriately challenging. She will empower everyone she works with to SEE and BE the best that you can be." Karen M. (Business Owner-Private Practice Professional)

"Cynthia's coaching style is organic. She is a great listener, taking what I said as the client and using it to dive deeper into the coaching. I learned that I can make progress on my coaching goals, even when I'm under a lot of stress due to external events. Cynthia is a skilled and experienced coach. I made progress on a project that I had needed to move forward on for a long time." Kim F. (Entrepreneur-Private Practice Professional)

"Coaching helped me start my journey of getting my health and energy back after many years of working too much and not taking care of myself." (Life & Health Coaching Client)

"Cynthia cares deeply about her clients and is very supportive. She listens and is willing to stretch her clients."
Jennifer S. (business owner)

No payment or remuneration or exchange of any kind is offered to clients for testimonials. Testimonials showing client names have given their express consent to be shown. Testimonials without names are testimonials clients have provided and given permission to use and who have requested confidentiality with respect to their name.