Talent Advisory
We provide executive & leadership coaching, team coaching, internal career pathing, and outplacement services.
Our service offerings are designed to optimize talent and drive employee engagement and retention:
Increasing Individual Effectiveness
Creating measurable behavioral changes in leaders and employees that link to key business results. Increasing resilience, agility, tolerance for uncertainty, cognition, self-awareness, and empathy.
Elevating Team Performance Working with managers and team members to build a stronger, more resilient, high-performing, and inclusive team culture.
Contributing to Organizational Success
Aligning individual aspirations with organizational goals to elevate leadership impact, cascading the benefits of coaching through the organization.
Working with managers and teams through the lens of career growth:
Our Services
Executive Coaching
Leadership: developing leadership skills, such as decision-making, strategic thinking, and team management
Performance: improving job performance and achieving professional goals, helping executives meet performance targets, overcome obstacles and maximize their potential in current roles
Career Transition: assisting executives during significant transitions, such as onboarding into a new role or organization career development and transition, including promotions, role changes or career shifts
Behavioral: helping executives become more self-aware, improve interpersonal relationships, and develop emotional intelligence
Executive Presence: helping leaders project confidence, credibility, and authority, particularly in high-stakes situations
Health & Wellness: promoting physical and mental well-being as it relates to leadership performance
Team Coaching
Group coaching to identify barriers to team success, build cohesion, and drive results.
Internal Career Pathing
Identifying individual strengths and growth opportunities
Charting potential internal career paths
Building action plans toward short-term and long-term goals
Outplacement Services
3- and 6-month one-to-one live custom career coaching engagements for senior-level employees
Hybrid program—online career transition course and live sessions
Our Philosophy
Individuals must be intentional and take action relevant to their own career development and advancement.
Leaders need to embrace a growth mindset, supporting their own and their team’s professional development.
Organizations can drive retention and engagement by instilling a coaching culture and supporting this process.
Our Executive and Leadership Coaching Programs are shaped and led by CFW Co-Owners, Rachel Fagnant-Fassler and Cynnie King, who have served as talent advisors to a spectrum of organizations across the country for over ten years.
Cynnie King is CEO and Co-Owner of CFW Careers. She co-leads the firm with Rachel Fagnant-Fassler, extending the legacy of David King who founded the firm 50 years ago. Over the past 15 years, she has contributed to evolving the firm’s recruiting services and establishing its executive coaching practice. She has served as a trusted advisor to hundreds of corporate clients and individuals on the rise in their careers.
A graduate of Colby College, Cynnie was previously Managing Partner of an international branding consultancy and business development executive for several other strategic branding and marketing communications firms. She was Vice President of WJM Associates, a provider of executive coaching for senior leaders. Her certifications include American University’s Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance and TTI Success Insights DISC.
Expertise: executive coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching, career transition, executive presence, internal career pathing, executive assessment.
Rachel Fagnant-Fassler, is President and Co-Owner of CFW Careers, where she co-leads operations of the firm with Cynnie King. After receiving a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a MA in Mental Health Counseling at NYU, she worked as a Career Counselor and as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in several nonprofit organizations before moving into executive search and coaching. Her expertise has informed CFW’s executive coaching services for over a decade. Her certifications include American University’s Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance and TTI Success Insights DISC.
Expertise: career transition, career development, team management, team coaching, DISC assessment, attention and performance, creative problem-solving, attentional health, workplace mental health, and outdoor coaching.
