Cheryl Cran, Communication, Leadership, Organizational Development Speaker and Communications Expert

Cheryl Cran, CSP is a motivational speaker- her keynote presentations are perfect as an opening to your annual conference where she will work with you to set the right tone and message that starts your event off with energy and excitement. Her inspirational and motivational presentations are also often requested as a closing keynote to a conference or business event where she will wrap up the theme and the messages that have been presented. Cheryl’s entire keynote presentations are one hour to ninety minutes and can be also be presented as half day or full day workshops.

Cheryl is known by meeting planners for her flexibility and ability to adapt her presentations directly to the message that is most relevant to the goals and results you want from your event.

The one thing that is common in all of Cheryl’s presentations is her dynamic energy, fun audience involvement, practical tools and thought provoking stories. Edutainment at its’ finest!

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Cheryl is known by the meeting planners and speaker bureaus she works with as being easy-going, accessible and reliable. To make it as easy as possible to work with her, she has teamed up with Karen Harris and her dynamic team of professionals at CMI Speaker Management. Cheryl and CMI offer you a powerful partnership consisting of a combined 40+ years of leadership and organizational expertise- our goal is to provide you with top of the line care.

Cheryl is the President of Synthesis at Work Inc. and an internationally renowned keynote speaker. She provides practical tools and creative strategies for individuals to take their current level of success and boldly grow it to the next level. The companies that Cheryl works with are top performing organizations with a strong focus on becoming a workplace of choice. The leaders of these organizations recognize the value of investing in the growth of their employees for overall company success. Cheryl is a bold growth seeker herself and continually challenges herself to grow, learn and expand as much as she challenges others to do the same.

When each leader and individual in the company boldly claims their personal part in future growth the company grows as a result.

Corporate Background: Throughout her entire corporate career Cheryl’s progress as a young and successful leader was based on her boldness and ability to take positive action. Her first leadership role was in her early 20’s in the banking industry. She was highly successful due to her action oriented and results focused style. However her style was also forceful and controlling because that was what was modeled by others and she thought that’s how a boss behaved, until one day her manager gave her the gift of honest feedback.

He coached her and provided tools to change her ways or risk career advancement. The very areas for improvement in her early management days were the areas that turned quickly into being a highly successful leader and communicator who “walks her talk.”

The 15 successful years she spent in the corporate sector included the calm handling of a series of violent bank robberies which resulted in an immediate promotion to the 2nd highest robbery-prone bank. Cheryl tells this story to her audiences along with: “Be careful what you are good at.” Cheryl led that branch to increase its overall performance and helped it achieve ‘one of the top three’ branch status.

She was quickly promoted to management in lending and became the 1st female mortgage development area manager. Under her leadership, the mortgage portfolio doubled within 1 year. Subsequently she was head-hunted by a mortgage insurance corporation to lead their insurance division for developers. Within 2 years, Cheryl increased market penetration to equal that of the largest single competitor in the industry. From there Cheryl headed up a brand new mortgage program and grew the portfolio to ten million in ten months.

Cheryl grew up in an entrepreneurial family and wanted to turn her success for earning companies great profits into a consulting practice. With determination, an affinity for risk and massive energy for positive change, Cheryl became the entrepreneur that she is today, selling her first business at a 6 figure profit.

Author of the following Books:

The Control Freak Revolution (Career Press 2008)
50 Ways to Lead and Love It!
Say What You Mean – Mean What You Say
Don’t Sweat Stories
Speak Up Speak Out

12 years as a successful entrepreneur, consultant and author

Certified in Psychology, Communication, Leadership & Organizational Development

15 years in corporate leadership in the finance and insurance industries

Research Projects – Performance Surveys within diverse industries

Articles published in “Selling Power Magazine”, “Builder Woman Magazine”, “Readers Digest”, “Small Business Canada Magazine”, and profiled in “BC Business Magazine “

CSP - Certified Speaking Professional designation through National Speakers Association - 10% of speakers worldwide hold this designation

Past President of CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers)

A top performing international seminar company named Cheryl in their top 1% of seminar leaders

Named a top speaker by “Business in Vancouver“

Nominated for YWCA Women of Distinction

Nominated for Top 100 Women

Annual certification programs and education upgrades through various universities

Consulting

“There are two things I look for when I am asked to assess an organization as a consultant”:

#1- What is the communication chain and where is communication breaking down?

#2- What are the leadership dynamics and are there systems in place for leadership and their teams to succeed?

If you have heard Cheryl speak or you have been referred to her company Synthesis at Work Inc you may find yourself as a leader wanting to grow your organization to the next level.

Cheryl is a consultant who tells it like it is; provides strategic insights and actionable solutions for your organization.

Some organizational solutions provided by Synthesis at Work are:

• Facilitated focus groups of Gen X and Y individuals
  to provide ideas and insight for your company
• Initial assessments
• Executive retreats
• Company surveys
• Leadership surveys
• Leadership coaching
• 360 degree peer performance
• Leadership boot camps
• Leadership webinars/online training

“Cheryl Cran brings huge value as a communication and leadership expert. Working with Cheryl has helped our company to grow exponentially over last year—we increased our staffing due to tremendous growth and her presentations on communication and leadership as well as her consulting processes has provided us with substantial return on investment. We know how to build homes, Cheryl Cran knows what is needed inside the company to grow the leaders and produce outstanding results.”

R Sebastian CEO
Renaissance Development

Coaching

Many organizations are outsourcing the coaching of their assets (people) and investing in them to assist success and to provide tools that will increase their effectiveness in the workplace. Bottom line: increased ability, productivity and morale.

Cheryl provides coaching for management and employees to further build upon the principles addressed within her programs.

These coaching programs may also be purchased as stand alone programs for individuals seriously committed to change and wanting to create new and powerful results in their work and life. These programs are NOT FOR the faint-hearted - they are intended only for those willing to go to the next level!

The Go for Bold coaching program is a focused coaching program for personal leadership excellence that is based on specific goals you want to accomplish. For example, you may want to achieve a new pinnacle of success within your profession. Or, you may have a particular goal and need someone to keep you on track and stay committed. You may be feeling bored or apathetic about your job and you need help to re-energize and re-focus.

The Go for Bold coaching program consists of a series of one-hour sessions of coaching time with Cheryl typically within a six week time frame. The coaching sessions are conducted by phone, video e-mail and face-to-face. This package includes a complimentary copy of Cheryl's books "Say What You Mean"  and “50 Ways to Lead & Love It” as well as one half-hour pre-coach interview to ensure that this program is for you.

Payment for the package is made prior to the program beginning.
Please call 1 877 900 5010 or email info@cherylcran.com  for pricing information to arrange for your Go for Bold Coaching program today!

“Working with Cheryl as a coach was a phenomenal experience. Challenging, insightful and she doesn’t let you off the hook. I found the experience extremely eye opening, confirming and life changing.“

E. Chick
Director, Creative and Event Production

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