SHARPERWORKS LLC

Cynthia (Sharper) Snodgrass is an award-winning, magnetically transformative leader with 18 years of experience helping diverse stakeholders and organizations experience tremendous growth and goal attainment. She is a highly intuitive and fascinatingly dynamic leader with international experience in career and life coaching. Cynthia is beloved by those who seek her expertise in excavating potential, helping clients exceed their wildest aspirations, individually or organization-wide, through strategic operationalization.

 

Cynthia is a cohort-member of the Yale School of Management Executive Education Women's Leadership Program, and a member of the International Association of Strategic Planning (IASP), the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), and Career Leadership Collective (CLC) while holding a certificate specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact on the Workplace from the University of Michigan.

 

Cynthia also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology - Business Management Cognate from the University of Toledo, and a Master of Education in Workforce Education and Development (formerly called Business Education), from Bowling Green State University.

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Cynthia's love for workforce integrity through student success is best demonstrated in her full-time role as the Director of Coaching and Outreach for a mid-west Big 10 university's career exploration center for liberal arts and sciences students. Cynthia oversees career coaching services and over 50 strategic partnerships that advance students' professional aspirations. She enjoys benchmarking best practices across public and private enterprises while also serving on the AI Expansion project Committee for the College of LSA at the University of Michigan.

 

Before this role, Cynthia served as associate director of a MAC university career center, where she counseled undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students while directing an internship program, and chairing a student success program for formerly fostered and independent students as the founder.

 

Cynthia also mentored high school faculty in NW Ohio while leading the coordination and curriculum design for the Career and Life Planning course, hiring and training 13 adjunct faculty, while serving the career exploration needs of approximately 300 undecided college students each year. 

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Before her career in higher education, Cynthia was a 6-year leader in the non-profit workforce development and vocational rehabilitation industry. She has also participated in national dialogues on the conditions of low-wage women in hospitality, tourism, and service industries with the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. 

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Special note: Cynthia has completed executive Associate Certified Coach (ACC) training with a specialization in Justice Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and plans to complete ICF accreditation by December 2025.