About Founder and President Cynthia Olmstead

Dedicated to helping organizations resolve conflicts and achieve success, Cynthia puts her more than 30 years of organizational development and training experience to work each day for her clients as the president of TrustWorks Group.

Over the course of her career, Cynthia recognized that at the core of many problems was the lack of trust—trust in the organization’s direction, trust in other team members, trust in leadership. Drawing from her group facilitation and organizational management background, Cynthia developed a training program called TrustWorks! to assist leaders and teams by teaching them proactive ways to manage conflict, improve communications skills—and ultimately build a culture of trust. This program has been successfully implemented in major corporations worldwide.

Prior to founding TrustWorks Group, Cynthia worked as an associate with The Ken Blanchard Company where she provided training and organizational consulting for Ken Blanchard, well known leadership guru and author of many books including The One Minute Manager. Additionally, as a former vice president of human resources for a manufacturing firm, Cynthia designed and implemented corporate training and performance management programs, as well as multi-level performance appraisal systems.

Over the years, Cynthia has written several articles about leadership and employee development including a bi-monthly column called “Motivating People” for the San Diego Daily Transcript and an article for the San Diego Business Journal on “How Companies Hire and Keep the Best Employees.”

Highly energetic and a frequent speaker at events, Cynthia is very active in the San Diego business community and serves as a board member for several non-profit organizations.

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