Cindy Gross, Pcc Email & Phone Number

Issaquah, Wa, Us

• Coach 50+ people over 515+ hours to develop into impactful leaders, adept at navigating work culture, who set & achieve authentic performance goals, strengthen relationships, & get recognized & rewarded as powerful & influential leaders.• Coach & advise leaders to see who they are now & create a path to who they want to be, nurture cultures where everyone thrives, recognize & address gendered or racialized interactions, & see people & relationships more clearly.• Design & deliver workshops, training, speaking engagements, & coaching programs on leadership, career growth, pivoting to entrepreneurship, race + gender equity, & the impact of racism on my own Cherokee & Delaware communities.

Signature topics include:🐲 I Got the Role I Wanted.... Now What?🐲 Get Recognized and Rewarded for Your Work: Strategies for Professionals🐲 Retaining "The Others" - The Role of Mentorship, Coaching, & Sponsorship🐲 Navigating Bias in Tech: Pathways to Inclusivity and Empowerment🐲 Empowering Indigenous Voices in Tech🐲 Practical Race + Gender Equity Toolkit for Effective Leadership🐲 Negotiate Boundaries for Success (How to say no without feeling guilty)🐲 Build & Sustain a Joyful Career (How to find your purpose and passion)🐲 Navigate Work Culture with Confidence (How to deal with impostor syndrome and microaggressions)Details here: https://speaker.innovationwomen.com/user/7612Speaker, Panelist, Moderator, Facilitator, Podcast Guest, Gracious Space Practitioner at:Leadership Eastside, Ellevate, Wonder Women Tech, Money Un-Tabooed, SQL PASS Summit, HRUprise, Idaho Public TV: Dialogue, Microsoft Executive Briefings for Big Data & Data Warehousing, Idaho Sanity Rally, Add the Words rally, SQL Saturdays, 24 Hours of PASS, Boise Code Camp, Seattle’s Dev Boot Camp, Idaho Democratic Party State Convention, employee and customer technical and diversity talks at Microsoft, Riveter, Women in Cloud, Data Platform WIT, & Add the Words TV+Radio+Newspaper interviews.

Tacoma, Washington, Us

I partner with A Human Workplace to build human-centered leadership for organizations, teams, and individuals. Together we elevate love and stamp out fear.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Board Member focused on values, ethics, & racial equity as we build leadership capacity. Infuse racial equity into the cohort container building and into the leader day curriculum. Build community and tools that enable LE alumni to thrive while applying Adaptive Leadership to social justice issues.

Coralus, formerly SheEO, is a global initiative radically transforming how we fund, support, and celebrate women-led Ventures that are working on the World's To-Do List (UN Sustainable Development Goals). Since launching in 2015, 5,000+ women Activators in five countries have collectively loaned out $5M to support 68 women-led Ventures. Our goal is to reach 1M Activators and a $1B perpetual fund which will support 10,000 Ventures each year for generations to come. https://sheeo.world/

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Shaped the newly formed Women of WDG board into a gender equity change agent with the mission: Nurture a culture where every WDG employee realizes their full potential.• Partnered with VPs & Directors to drive high impact culture changes into their organizations through training, DEI events, practical ways to include women in decisions, & process improvements. Created & drove the pilot of "Power of Three" to get more decision-making women in critical meetings.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Led multi-organization Windows + Azure infrastructure validation including a new scalable validation framework across product & ops stakeholders resulting in higher stakeholder satisfaction & 25% faster releases.• Mentored & coached dozens of women across multiple organizations on technical skills, managing up, networking for success, & career development.• Partnered with HR on programs to retain more women & BIPOC folks. Trained & mentored fellow interviewers on more inclusive practices that screen in a wider variety of highly capable candidates.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Partnered with Big Data on Azure, BI, & SQL Server product teams to lead, design, & implement E2E cloud solutions that delivered customer-driven evidence for better products & published patterns & practices plus customer success case studies.• Mentored, trained, & coached dozens of peers & managers on DEIB, career development, & data + cloud technologies.• Delivered Executive Briefings & addressed deep technical questions in pre-sales meetings for potential & renewing large customers to increase their Azure spend by millions of $.• Elevated product visibility & supported women in tech with highly rated talks on data platform, infrastructure, & DEI at global & local tech conferences.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Owned Big Data planning. Architected end-to-end, business focused, Azure data & analytics solutions: HDInsight, Hadoop, Hive, Stream Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Factory, Event Hub, Storage, Power BI, & Internet of Things.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Architected customer solutions expanding how Microsoft data & cloud products are used. Defined unmet needs to drive changes into the product. Synthesized learnings & published Azure, Big Data, Analytics, BI, Hadoop, Hive, Data Warehousing, & SQL Server guidance. Drove adoption with success stories & repeatable patterns & practices.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Strategic customer architecture & implementation for SQL Server & Analysis Services. Globally recognized expert in SQL Server performance, clustering, troubleshooting methodology, & infrastructure. Published chapter in SQL 2008 Internals book.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Solved complex, mission critical technical problems for global enterprise customers. SQL Content Lead, SQL Readiness Lead, soft skills & technical trainer for 100s of engineers, & globally recognized subject matter expert for troubleshooting methodology, SQL clustering, performance, Analysis Services, replication, & security. Published chapter in SQL 2005 book.

Arlington, Texas, Us

Architected, automated, & implemented SQL Server solutions.

Racial Equity Adaptive Leadership (Real)

Executive Insight, Leading Adaptive Leaders

Adaptive Community Leadership Certificate, Adaptive Leadership, Gracious Space, Systems Thinking, Racial Equity In Systems

Certified Generative Coach Demonstrating Pcc Level Coaching, Icf Actp Coaching

Kapor Deib In Tech Certificate, Intercultural/Multicultural And Diversity Studies

Executive Program, Leadership Strategy For Violence & Abuse Prevention

Certificate, Critical Race Theory

Leadership, Leadership

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management Information Systems (Mis)