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“Cyndi is the magic dust that brings people together.”
John Abbruzzese, President of Potomac Construction Industries
Cyndi, thank you for your presentation…thanks for sending the slides
and for being the speaker in Tuscon. I have been to a lot of conferences
and have heard a lot of speakers - you are the BEST that I have heard.
You’re definitely not ordinary...
Debra Hebisen, Quality Assurance Manager, Dallas Area Rapid Transit
I had the pleasure of being a coachee in the Guide to Greatness Individual Career Excellence (ICE) program with Cyndi Laurin over a period of three months. I found Cyndi to be disarmingly and genuinely gifted. Cyndi has a notable knack for asking “the perfect question,” and complements that knack with being a great listener. Cyndi is a profound thinker, possessing a rare skill in “meta-thinking” – i.e., thinking about thinking. These skills, along with her background in organizations, quality, and “greatness,” give her a kind of power to go right to what matters. Cyndi’s perfect questions and apt homework assignments helped me obtain substantially greater clarity on both short- and long-term plans for my career and my business (including some crucial marketing matters) than before I had started to work with her.
(full quote can be found at ICE Program page)
Entrepreneur from Kansas City
Cyndi,
I took a job with a consulting firm in San Francisco. It is rated
the #2 small- to medium-sized companies to work for in America, for all
the reasons we discussed in your courses. I also wanted to let you know
that I use things that I learned from you all the time in my first "real" job.
You were definitely one of my favorite professors at Poly and I hope
you are having tons of success.
Dan Baril, Triage Consulting
Cyndi,
This is a follow up to our very brief conversation after your dynamic
keynote presentation at the ASQ World Conference on Quality. I was struck
by the similarities of your message to our approach in developing a
persona to one's website. I am intrigued in how your philosophy can be
translated to the Internet medium, which in essence should reflect the
personality of the organization. Looking forward to hearing from you,
Peter de Gosztonyi, Managing Partner, Web-Insight
What great insights. My favorite is regarding not the past but the
opportunities that await you that determine who you are. We are struggling
with leadership issues. I paraphrased your speech based on my notes and
sent it to everyone I knew in administration that would listen. Thanks
for the inspiration.
Diane Bares RN, Program Manager, Department of Joint Quality,
Medical College
of Wisconsin
Cyndi,
You have no idea how you have become a topic of daily conversation
in my life. My wife has so far read “Catch!” twice – the
first time, right after I returned from the conference. I had talked
to her on the phone about some of the concepts in your presentation and
was very excited to have the book, so she read it over the next two days
while I was working. We had some great discussions as I came home
with my interpretation of what I had heard you say, and her going through
the book and trying to apply it to our lives. She decided that
she needed to read it a second time (I haven’t had a chance to
get my hands on it!), and now phrases like, “It’s all over
here” are common place (daily!) in our household. As well
as a tie-in to “thinking about thinking” and intentionality
and goals as a place to go from. Anyway, thanks again!
Donald R. Smith, Continuous Improvement Leader,
Stevens Point Mill, Stora
Enso
I continue to read your book (typically every so often and a paragraph
at a time—I flip open to the perfect page for me at the time) and
I am really enjoying it (and learning about/for myself from the sharings).
Just wanted you to know that I appreciate what you did and am touched
by it. That’s all. Onwards to more good,
Paul Michael, MarriageTools.com
Hi Cyndi-
I met you a few weeks ago at the CCE conference in San Jose. I just
wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how much I have thoroughly
enjoyed reading your book. I am so inspired and committed to making those
things that I want in my life happen. Your words and the crew at Pike
Place Fish have reinforced those principles that I have tried to keep
in my life.
I teach English as a Second Language and brought your book into my
class to share with my students the ideas and philosophies. More than
half wrote down the title and flipped through the pages. I am thinking
about flying up to Seattle for a weekend and see first hand the market
- that's how inspired I am! Thank you for the gift Cyndi. I wish you
success in your other books. Let me know when they are complete so that
I can get copies! It's so all over here!
Alicia Wszelaki
Cyndi,
I just had a six sigma class for the last two days, and it is amazing how
much that I knew because you taught me so much. I actually retained
the information. I thank you so much for that. I also thought it was
funny that some of the material that they were using felt like it came
from you or your research. I took IT 303 at the end of your finishing
Catch!. You would tell us all about this small company that has a huge
goal. It just happens to be ... world famous pike place fish market.
I was shocked to here them talking about it, too, and then all of a
sudden we watched a movie on it. I could not believe that what I learned
in College I was now actually using in my job. I love my job, and I
thank you so much for being a great teacher and teaching me useful
things that I would use in the really world.
Scott Barton, Program Cost Schedule and Control Analyst,
Raytheon
Dear Cyndi,
I wanted to send you a quick email to thank you for all of your efforts
around your presentation at our company meeting. You did a great
job of incorporating real live “Nomacorc examples” into your
presentation, and I found it to be quite motivating. Thank you
for your extra effort in “getting to know” some of the Nomacorc
people and processes and sharing your “it’s all over here” ideas
with our associates. Thanks again and I really enjoyed meeting you,
Cindy Vice, Chief Financial Officer, Nomacorc, Inc.
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