About Ceynowa Consulting

Mary Ceynowa is a consultant working with privately owned and closely held businesses for over 10 years.
Combining her skills and background as a licensed professional counselor and psychologist, a creative coach, trainer, and adviser, Mary Ceynowa uniquely helps organizations chart a course and navigate the complexities of change; be it leadership transitions, succession planning, or the challenges of growth and expansion.

Leadership development, succession planning and implementation, along with individual career assessment and options for retiring executives are primary areas around which she has built her business - Ceynowa Consulting.

Assessment is a key element of the Ceynowa approach. In-depth testing and evaluation processes are employed to generate powerful and insightful information. Ceynowa Consulting uses the model developed at The Center for Character Based Leadership (www.characterwork.com) in all of its’ leadership development and coaching work. The resulting information greatly aids company decision makers in their efforts to select and prepare new leaders. Ceynowa services are extensive, multi-leveled and tailored to the unique needs of each client organization.

Ceynowa Consulting does not provide financial planning, but frequently collaborates with and/or coordinates a team of advisors, particularly those working in related fields of succession planning. If needed, Ceynowa Consulting can serve as a referral conduit to other highly qualified professionals.

Ceynowa Consulting Services Include:

• Management/Leadership Development
  
• Leadership Succession Planning
  
• Family Business Succession Planning
  
• Executive Selection
  
• Partner Development
  
• Team Building
  
• Conflict Resolution
  

Personal Overview- by Mary Ceynowa

"Helping to identify and cultivate leaders capable of ensuring an organization's health, long into the future, is the cornerstone of my work. Leadership development is just as essential to the 30-year old family enterprise preparing to pass the reins from one generation to the next, as it is to the entrepreneurial upstart, whose rapid expansion is all too quickly stretching management dangerously thin.

A key focus of my business has always been to assist companies with and through the process of leadership succession. My training in professional counseling and psychology proves especially useful when I am asked to guide a business and its’ employees through a difficult and emotional process into a positive and successful outcome.

Any transition of a company's management and/or ownership from one generation to the next, whether family-owned or otherwise, represents huge risk. Well-informed, insightful decision-making is the best way I know to minimize such risk.. Using objective and in-depth testing and analysis we can collaborate to reveal obstacles and opportunities that lie above and below the surface. Resulting a minimization of transitional risk.

The Leadership Development Programs I offer will not only help determine who is best suited to fill new or next-generation leadership roles, they are tailored to ensure that individuals are well-prepared for greater responsibility when their transition to a new position comes.

I cannot stress enough the value of leadership development in any organization. Ideally, it should begin ten years prior to retirement of the current leadership team. Leadership development is also not something to be reserved for the upper stratospheres of management, nor limited to leadership succession needs alone. It is most effective when utilized as an ongoing process that pays long-term dividends to organizations that make a management commitment to leadership development. I offer a broad range of programs designed to cultivate and perpetuate a depth of leadership, on multiple tiers of management, developing potential for both the long and short term.

When other professionals are involved, providing services related but separate from those I offer, I am often asked to provide coordination services, in order to ensure continuity and prevent overlap. That may involve coordination between an existing team of consultants hired directly by the client, or with consultants I am able to refer. As a member of Peer Consulting Group, an association of highly qualified professionals, I am able to broaden the scope of services I can make available, to more completely meet needs of my clients.

Most recently, I have adapted the skills and programs I have long offered to organizations, to assist individual, retiring executives better prepare for a rewarding second phase of their lives. Today, the average age of retirement is 52. Individual (next) career assessment and development proves to be just as valuable in choosing and preparing for a second career as for the first. It's been an exciting and rewarding new area of service for me, and something that has proven most valuable to my clients.
I thank you for your interest in Ceynowa Consulting and hope you will review my web site further to find the services and programs that will address the needs you and/or your organization may have. I would welcome an opportunity to work with you."

Mary Ceynowa is a member of Characterwork.com, an organization using a well developed model of character, competence, and commitment to develop leaders.