Cy Wakeman, MS

Cynthia “Cy” Wakeman is a dynamic, well-respected national keynote speaker, workshop facilitator and trainer who helps individuals and organizations recreate their mindsets so they can achieve results beyond their wildest dreams. Her unique programs help to develop and build successful leaders and teams. Her approach is unconventional, candid, and entertaining. Based on her hard-hitting philosophy,

“Succeeding in Spite of the Facts,”

Cy has helped many groups and organizations break through their reasons, stories and excuses to develop innovative solutions to long-standing issues.

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Programs That Create Amazing Results!

Succeeding in Spite of the Facts
Cy shows how fast-paced, changing organizations can thrive in challenging times as they break through “learned helplessness” and rally their teams to respond to challenges while maintaining 100% accountability. Participants leave this presentation with a renewed appreciation of their role in shaping the continued success of the company.

Thriving in Changing Times
The ability to respond to the rapid pace of changing events is becoming a key competitive advantage for organizations today. In order to lead change, we must completely recreate employee mindsets to act in ways seemingly counter intuitive to the techniques that have made them successful in the past. In this program, participants will learn key models and techniques for transforming their organization into a change-seeking machine.

Transforming Differences into Advantages
In order for a team to truly excel, it is no longer enough to simply accept each other’s legitimate differences. Leveraging diversity is the key to overcoming today’s most challenging issues - from a lack of resources to gaining a competitive advantage. Cy’s engaging and humorous delivery leads participants through a brief assessment process, which helps them to identify their own personality “color.” Participants will learn how to first recognize, and then utilize the variety of talents within their teams.

Creating New Mindsets and Amazing Results in Organizations
Belief has great power, for no matter if one believes something to be possible or impossible, either way they will be right. In this presentation, Cy shocks participants as she reveals the key beliefs that are crippling organizations. Participants are challenged to “unfreeze” old patterns of thinking and behaving so that new possibilities and ideas can be created in their organizations. Participants are brought to the stark realization that many of the disappointments that they face are due to their own self-imposed limitations. In the end, amazing results arise from changed mindsets - for only by changing one’s thinking, can they truly change their circumstances.

Cy speaks from experience! Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for achieving amazing results in spite of her clients’ challenging circumstances. Clients in a wide variety of industries have found her guidance to be key in their successful planning and implementation of new programs and systems. Those who enter into consulting relationships with Cy simply rave about her value to themselves and their organizations.

Cy has a unique background, which combines four successful business start-ups with 20 years of working and consulting in a variety of arenas; including healthcare, insurance, banking, manufacturing and high-tech. Cy has personally led strategic planning efforts, culture change initiatives, ERP implementations, talent management system design and implementations and succession planning projects.

She now brings her proven and hard-hitting philosophy, “Succeeding in Spite of the Facts,” to organizations that want to break through their reasons, stories and excuses to develop innovative solutions and approaches to long standing issues.

Here’s what people are saying about Cy:

“‘Cy’s sessions are enlightening, thought-provoking, and practical.’ We’ve made great changes in our organization over the last three years, and often I’ll hear people long after her programs say, “Well, as Cy said…”
James L. Mounce
President, Woodmen of the World

“Cy Wakeman is a top notch presenter. When Cy first spoke at the State Conference in 2004, her speaker ratings were the highest, with an almost perfect overall score. Her packed break-out sessions were a tribute to Cy’s success. In fact, we consider Cy’s name on the agenda as one of the enticements that bring professionals to the conference. Her name on the program means an outstanding session.”
Ruth M. Jones, SPHR
Director, SHRM Nebraska State Council

"Cy is professional, candid, informational, and helpful. I believe her message and her help in getting our different groups ‘on the same page’ was right on target. I highly recommend her to any one who needs someone that thinks on their feet, helps people draw consensus, and leaves the group better prepared for the tasks in front of them. Cy is an excellent example of someone that has ’been there, done that’. She is a very good speaker."
Dwight K. Conover, Chairman
Northwest Financial

Clients:

Here is a selection from the list of international corporations, cities, hospitals, universities, military units, schools, charities, service groups, state governments and more that have benefited from having Cy speak to their people:

* Weil Cornell Medical School
* New York Presbyterian
* Mars Confectionary
* Verizon Wireless
* U.S. Cellular
* Woodmen of the World
* ConAgra
* Cabela’s
* First National Bank
* First Nation Merchant Solutions
* Omnium Worldwide
* West Asset Management
* Hewlett Packard Company