Cindy Miller
DISC, Exec. Director Maxwell Leadership
MI, USA high-impact speaker and hands-on leadership trainer, Cindy equips teams to communicate clearly, solve problems efficiently, and lead with confidence. Known for her energy, humor, and clarity, she consistently earns rave reviews and drives measurable results for organizations.
Career Summary
Cindy Miller is a business consultant and facilitator best known for her ability to connect quickly to encourage her audience to seek higher levels of professional and personal growth. Cindy’s facilitation style is personable, empowering, and engaging. She promotes understanding through examples, storytelling, team activities, and Q&A while keeping the growth objectives in focus. Over the past 25 years, Cindy has found that the best team cultures are created by leaders who are learners and teachers, bold and humble, and exceptional communicators. She also believes the best business results occur when people are taught how to have healthy relationships with their team, open communication channels, peer-to-peer accountability, and trust in their leaders. All teachable skills.
Client, Organization, and Industry Experience
Cindy has consulted with leaders at all levels within domestic and global organizations in a variety of industries including financial services, manufacturing, IT, engineering, consumer products, and health care, for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has expertise in leadership and team development, focusing on the design, implementation, and sustainability practices of leadership, team, and high-potential development. Cindy helps leaders identify and capitalize on their strengths to bolster productivity and generate positive interpersonal business relationships.
Some of Cindy’s clients include Altair Engineering, Carhartt, Credit Acceptance, DexKo, CDI Corporation, Matrix Technologies, Preston Feather, United Mortgage Trust, Advantage Resourcing, Grosse Pointe Board of Realtors, Mercy Memorial Hospital, Henry Ford Health Systems, Faurecia, and Financial One Accounting.
Consulting Capabilities
Cindy's overarching goal is to train leaders worth following. People who know how to cultivate work environments where communication channels are wide and healthy and where people have the right conversation, with the right person, at the right time.
- Support leadership with the process of identifying and articulating company values, niches, mission and vision goals.
- Counsel organizations to identify and develop existing talent to the highest level.
- Design, facilitate and measure leadership, team, and individual high-potential programs.
- Create best practices for keeping the momentum of culture change moving forward in a positive direction.
- Provide direction for team member evaluation standards both formally and informally.
- Design and facilitate standards for communication, including giving and receiving feedback, setting expectations, and staying accountable.
- Design, plan, and facilitate team development for annual meetings and retreats.
Certifications and Memberships
- Certified in both PeopleKeys DISC and Wiley DiSC as Facilitator and Coach.
- Certified and/or proficient in MBTI, Work of Leaders, Center for Creative Leadership Benchmark, Predictive Index,
Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and Emotional Intelligence, EQi-2.0.
- Certified Virtual Presenter - eSpeakers.
- Executive Program Director with John C. Maxwell Leadership and Certified Team Member.
- Group facilitator for global Change Your World Transformation Tables, a values-based leadership lesson designed to increase engagement through people-centric leadership principles.
Career Summary
Cindy Miller is a business consultant and facilitator best known for her ability to connect quickly to encourage her audience to seek higher levels of professional and personal growth. Cindy’s facilitation style is personable, empowering, and engaging. She promotes understanding through examples, storytelling, team activities, and Q&A while keeping the growth objectives in focus. Over the past 25 years, Cindy has found that the best team cultures are created by leaders who are learners and teachers, bold and humble, and exceptional communicators. She also believes the best business results occur when people are taught how to have healthy relationships with their team, open communication channels, peer-to-peer accountability, and trust in their leaders. All teachable skills.
Client, Organization, and Industry Experience
Cindy has consulted with leaders at all levels within domestic and global organizations in a variety of industries including financial services, manufacturing, IT, engineering, consumer products, and health care, for-profit and non-profit organizations. She has expertise in leadership and team development, focusing on the design, implementation, and sustainability practices of leadership, team, and high-potential development. Cindy helps leaders identify and capitalize on their strengths to bolster productivity and generate positive interpersonal business relationships.
Some of Cindy’s clients include Altair Engineering, Carhartt, Credit Acceptance, DexKo, CDI Corporation, Matrix Technologies, Preston Feather, United Mortgage Trust, Advantage Resourcing, Grosse Pointe Board of Realtors, Mercy Memorial Hospital, Henry Ford Health Systems, Faurecia, and Financial One Accounting.
Consulting Capabilities
Cindy's overarching goal is to train leaders worth following. People who know how to cultivate work environments where communication channels are wide and healthy and where people have the right conversation, with the right person, at the right time.
- Support leadership with the process of identifying and articulating company values, niches, mission and vision goals.
- Counsel organizations to identify and develop existing talent to the highest level.
- Design, facilitate and measure leadership, team, and individual high-potential programs.
- Create best practices for keeping the momentum of culture change moving forward in a positive direction.
- Provide direction for team member evaluation standards both formally and informally.
- Design and facilitate standards for communication, including giving and receiving feedback, setting expectations, and staying accountable.
- Design, plan, and facilitate team development for annual meetings and retreats.
Certifications and Memberships
- Certified in both PeopleKeys DISC and Wiley DiSC as Facilitator and Coach.
- Certified and/or proficient in MBTI, Work of Leaders, Center for Creative Leadership Benchmark, Predictive Index,
Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and Emotional Intelligence, EQi-2.0.
- Certified Virtual Presenter - eSpeakers.
- Executive Program Director with John C. Maxwell Leadership and Certified Team Member.
- Group facilitator for global Change Your World Transformation Tables, a values-based leadership lesson designed to increase engagement through people-centric leadership principles.
DISCover Your Leadership Style for Success
Format: 90 minute - 3 hour workshop
This insightful session is perfect for people wanting to:
- Communicate clearly and motivate others to act.
- Understand their leadership strengths and how to use them for maximum benefit.
- Inspire cohesiveness in a team whose members value one another, solve problems, and achieve success together.
The audience will leave...
Leveraging Generational Diversity for Team Success
With multiple generations working together in today’s workplace, organizations have a tremendous opportunity and a very real challenge. Differences in communication, feedback, work ethic, and workplace expectations can either create friction or fuel stronger performance.
This engaging and thought-provoking program helps audiences understand what drives generational differences and how to turn those differences into an asset. Ideal as a 60-minute workshop, breakout...
Breaking Your Leadership Ceiling
Every leader has strengths. Every leader also has limits. The difference between staying where you are and growing your impact is learning how to recognize both.
This inspiring and practical keynote helps audiences understand how leadership strengths can become liabilities when overused, why growth requires more than good intentions, and what it takes to expand leadership capacity in a meaningful way. Ideal for opening or closing conferences, association events, and...
The Leadership Game
Format: 90 minute to 2-hour breakout or workshop
The Leadership Game is a fun, interactive way to spark the conversations teams need most. Through an engaging game-based format, participants explore leadership challenges, team dynamics, communication habits, and workplace culture in a way that feels energizing, honest, and productive.
This program is perfect for organizations that want to:
- Build a...
How to Lead Gen Z for Greater Engagement and Retention
Generation Z is changing the workplace with new expectations around feedback, growth, flexibility, well-being, and leadership. For many organizations, this creates both promise and challenge. Based on Dr. Tim Elmore’s The Future Begins with Z, this engaging program helps leaders understand what drives Gen Z and how to lead them more effectively.
Participants will explore practical strategies for improving communication, strengthening engagement,...
Executive Presence: How Leaders Communicate Authority, Credibility and Influence
How do others experience your leadership when you walk into a room, speak in a meeting, or respond under pressure? This workshop helps leaders understand and strengthen the behaviors that shape executive presence, including gravitas, communication, and appearance. Participants will learn how to project confidence without arrogance, stay calm under pressure, communicate with clarity and authority, and align their presence with the level of leadership they want to reach. This is a practical,...
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MSU-Student SHRM
On-Site
A.S., Student, MSU-Student SHRM
Verified @msu.eduCindy, I found your presentation on Bridging Generational Gaps incredibly thought-provoking and educational. I really appreciated how you explained the different life narratives that shaped each generation, as well as the different communication styles. It made me think about how HR professionals can better support multigenerational workplaces.
Plymouth Rotary
On-Site
J.K., Board Member and Programming Chair, Plymouth Rotary
Verified @junipergrp.comThanks, Cindy for your informative presentation last week. You did a great job in customizing your comments to the audience. This helped to keep everyone engaged and connected to your presentation. I heard members of the audience say afterwards how much they enjoyed your presentation. They got it right, I enjoyed it too!
Dannemiller Tyson Associates
On-Site
A.B., Managing Partner, Dannemiller Tyson Associates
Verified @gmail.comCindy is a brilliant consultant working with people and helping them navigate relationships in the workplace.
Reed Consulting, LLC
On-Site
J.R., Principle, Reed Consulting, LLC
Verified @reedconllc.comI refer client work to Cindy because she is a highly skilled and competent professional facilitator, trainer, and consultant who can handle anything that is thrown her way. She listens to the client and always leaves them better than she finds them earning rave reviews. She is organized, prepared, and an expert at what she does. I trust her implicitly and have learned much from her. She is confident, warm, and has a great sense of humor. I so appreciate her ability to command a room with respect, thoughtfulness, and just the right amount of structure and rigor. I not only value her as a talented professional but as a wonderful human being. She is simply one of the best!
Preston Feather
On-Site
E.W., Director Human Resources, Preston Feather
Verified @prestonfeather.comCindy has a remarkable talent for engaging with senior leaders to design personalized and impactful programs. Equally impressive is her ability to build strong, lasting connections with front-line leaders and team members—even when sessions are spaced months apart. I highly recommend her!
Self Employed
On-Site
T.K., Coach and Consultant, Self Employed
Verified @dionleadership.com"Thank you so much for the four wonderful training sessions...You created such a comfortable, safe and fun environment for everyone to learn - every session felt like it flew by!"
Altair Engineering
On-Site
L.P., Global Talent Acquisition Manager, Altair Engineering
"Cindy is highly collaborative. Already a subject matter expert, she listened to customize our employee and leadership workshops to meet training goals while incorporating company culture. This made the mandated and voluntary learning experiences much more interesting, relatable, and retainable. Employees appreciated her professional, friendly delivery and would often stay after class or reach out at a later time for further discussion."
DexKo Global
On-Site
C.J., Global Talent Director, DexKo Global
Cindy has a natural gift for helping business professionals at all levels not only understand leadership concepts but also help them internalize and adopt them as their own. She is a master at using questioning techniques to leverage the experiences of everyone in the room. She always keeps it "real" and brings clarity to complex concepts. Cindy is one of the best examples of... 'The one who influences others to lead is a leader without limits' that I've ever met.
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