For senior women in tech who are operating without a map in terrain that keeps changing. I'm Cindy Gross — leadership navigation coach, 25-year tech veteran, and the person who helps high-capacity leaders separate what's them from what's the system. Subscribers get tactical frameworks, named patterns, and honest intelligence on the dynamics most people won't say out loud: scope creep, political feedback, survival mode, and how influence actually works. Built for leaders who want precision, not pep talks.
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Befriending Dragons
For senior women in tech who are operating without a map in terrain that keeps changing. I'm Cindy Gross — leadership navigation coach, 25-year tech veteran, and the person who helps high-capacity leaders separate what's them from what's the system. Subscribers get tactical frameworks, named patterns, and honest intelligence on the dynamics most people won't say out loud: scope creep, political feedback, survival mode, and how influence actually works. Built for leaders who want precision, not pep talks.
Cindy Gross Befriending Dragons Hi Reader, My cat was on fire. Yes, literally. I was reading in my chair, and Goose - the orange menace - was walking through the tray full of candles toward me, tail twitching left, right, left, right, left… right into the one lit candle. Readers, he still doesn't know he was ever on fire. My heart was racing, anxiety rising (Hollander, you are having panic attack! IYKYK). The last inch of his tail was flaming as Goose circled my lap looking for the perfect...
Cindy Gross Befriending Dragons Hi Reader, The most capable woman in the room is often navigating the most alone. Not because she lacks support — but because the systems around her weren't built to see what she's actually carrying. The scope that expanded without authority. The feedback that doesn't add up. The political weather that shifted and nobody named it. She's not confused. She's operating without a map in terrain that keeps changing. That's what I build. I'm offering a Strategic...
Cindy Gross Befriending Dragons Hi Reader, I just wrapped up a session using my new Untangle One Thing sprint format, and I want to share the shift that happened—because it’s a pattern I see in almost every high-performing leader I coach. The client came in carrying a heavy mental load regarding a broken situation at work. It felt exactly like the knot above: a tight, chaotic loop that seemed to get worse the harder she tried to fix it. A single conversation had gone wrong, and she was stuck...