Cindy O’Kane, PCC, Owner and Director of O’Kane Advisory Group, is a leadership coach and business consultant with over 20 years of experience serving organizations in the DC area.  

As a coach, Cindy works with senior executives, helping them gain insights into their own drivers and behaviors; and empowering them to operationalize who they want to be as authentic leaders.  She serves as a trusted advisor; working closely with her clients to co-develop a plan of action with measures of success that will work for them as a person, as well as professionally. 

Cindy is also a trained facilitator, working with executive teams on a short or long-term basis. Her work ranges from facilitating key meetings/off-sites, to lengthy engagements where she partners with a team to co-create their goals and vision for success, clarify roles and responsibilities, improve cross-team communication, and create a culture of collaboration.

As a business consultant, Cindy works with large and small firms, supporting them in maintaining programmatic and organizational health. Cindy has led organizational assessments, program development efforts, performance management initiatives, communications, market studies, benchmarking and measurements of success.

In her years at KPMG Consulting and The MITRE Corporation, Cindy led Organizational Change Management (OCM) teams to support clients undertaking large-scale organizational change, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and IT/ERP implementations. Cindy developed and managed teams focused on leadership action planning, workforce assessments and transition planning, performance management, training and communications. 

Cindy is a graduate of the Georgetown University Executive Coaching Certification Program, and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF).  Cindy received her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University, and her Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Syracuse University, where she also completed her BS.   

Certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Leadership Circle Profile 360 Certification
• MBTI Certification