Cynthia Pepper

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ABOUT CYNTHIA PEPPER

Cynthia H. Pepper, Principal of Pepper Consulting Group and a licensed counselor, brings an extensive background in human behavior, organizational behavior and evolutionary behavior to her work as a consultant in leadership and organizational effectiveness. She is a frequent presenter and an expert in professional and organizational development in the higher education and non-profit institutions. She serves as an executive coach and private business counselor for leaders of world-class institutions across the country.Cynthia is the creator of the Leaders\' Platform, an in-depth experiential program for leaders in organizations undergoing significant change, and the co-creator of Compcat, a trademarked market-sensitive compensation tool. Her work on mergers in higher education is included in the book \"Lessons in Changing Culture: Learning From Real World Cases.\" She is a frequent contributor on business issues in trade journals and on the radio.Cynthia’s experience includes leadership positions in large for-profit and non-profit institutions and service on many local, state and national boards. She was a delegate from Michigan to the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business and the co-chair of the national Committee on Human Capital. Her undergraduate work was done at the University of Michigan in psychology and her graduate work included animal behavior at Bucknell University and counseling at Eastern Michigan University.Specialties: Organizational behavior & alignment, leadership development, executive coaching/counsel, change initiative facilitation, staffing and reduction in force strategies, human resources program design and integration, compensations system design and implementation, and diversity.