Career Development
Leadership & Life Panel
Learn from world-class leading career, leadership, and life coaches who share ways that you can mindfully rise into your leadership potential.
Cynthia Pong
Feminist Career Strategist, Speaker, and Author, Embrace Change NYC
San Francisco
Cynthia Pong, JD, is an award-winning career strategist, speaker, and author of Don't Stay in Your Lane: The Career Change Guide for Women of Color. An NYU-trained lawyer turned feminist career coach, she's on a mission to get women of color the money, power, and respect that they deserve. Her career advice has been featured in HuffPost, Refinery29, NPR, and more, and she is a LinkedIn Top Voice for Job Search and Career.
Cynthia specializes in strategizing with mid-career women of color professionals who are pursuing unconventional paths. Her coaching focuses on emboldening her clients, sharpening their negotiation skills, and building their business acumen. She is frequently sought out to provide highly relevant, super applicable, easy-to-understand career advice specifically for women of color.
Her clients are breaking down barriers in a variety of fields and industries, including: medicine, public health, the arts, social work, sustainability, and the trades. Cynthia is a proud introvert, a classic middle child, and an unapologetic Rottweiler enthusiast.
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