EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP SPEAKER & KEYNOTE PRESENTER

A practitioner who speaks from experience.

Cynthia Farrell, owner and principal of 110 West Group, and an expert in developing leadership teams and the leaders on them.

I bring 25 years of doing the work into every room I speak in. I’ve led led through acquisition, navigated dysfunction, and built teams in high-pressure environments. I talk about the frameworks but ground them in stories. No theory without application, and no ideas without the opportunity for action.

I bring real talk that earns the room.

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Signature Topics

Every topic draws from the same core conviction: every day you cast a leadership shadow. It’s shape, depth and texture is up to you.

Leading with Ease

Leadership is hard. It doesn’t have to feel heavy.

Leadership will never be easy. But it IS possible to lead with ease. In this keynote, I share how a career crisis gave me the opportunity to reassess how I was leading. Participants leave with a new model for leadership, and tangible actions and practices to lighten their loads and lead with ease.

Change Leadership

Lead yourself and your team through change.

Change is the permanent condition of growth-stage organizations. Most leaders are equipped to drive change; fewer are equipped to lead themselves through it first. This session addresses both: the internal work of the leader and the relational work with the team.

Emotional Intelligence

EQ as the key leadership differentiator

Technical excellence gets you into the room. EQ determines how long you stay and what you’re able to do there. This session cuts through the soft-skills framing and addresses EQ as a concrete, developable leadership competency with real business consequences.

See me in action

At Speakonomics

At Disrupt HR

At Denver StartUp Week