About our founder

As Founder and Owner of Conscious Pursuits, Inc. Cindy Wigglesworth bridges a solid business background with her passionate beliefs about the importance of integrating our spiritual and work lives. Her prior work experience includes 20+ years in human resources management for ExxonMobil Corporation, performing in all the traditional areas of HR, most notably organizational design, effectiveness and workforce / culture issues, executive coaching and performance improvement, training development and delivery and global training strategy

In addition, Cindy was assigned for two years to lead the human resources component of an enormous business process redesign effort for Exxon Chemicals. This global best practices activity was carried out in 33 chemical plants around the world. It included significant challenges in change management: converting change resistance into enthusiastic support in the plants, quantifying a serious future staffing problem, defining skill sets for the technicians for the new millennium, and creating on-line training capability.

Since forming Conscious Pursuits, Inc., Cindy's most major consulting projects have included The Methodist Hospital, a world class hospital network. Her work with the Vice President of Spiritual Care and Values Integration resulted in implementation of a network-wide values integration program with the stated objective of creating a "spiritual environment of caring." Cindy's contribution included developing the overall plan, establishing the measurement methodology and co-designing and implementing a values class for Methodist's 9,000 employees. Methodist's overall efforts to create a "spiritual environment of caring" earned them the 2002 International Spirit at Work award.

Cindy's spiritual foundation comes from a lifetime study of philosophy, psychology, religion and related sciences. Her latest studies have included Jungian Psychology, the science of consciousness and emotions, quantum physics and the major world religions. With a personal library of over 800 books, she can always be found with a book nearby and educational CDs and tapes in the car!

She is a powerful keynote speaker, a master teacher and expert in the fields of "spirit at work" and Spiritual Intelligence.  She is extensively quoted in the book Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Captialism by Patricia Aburdene. Cindy was featured on an episode of Houston PBS's Living Smart program (click here to view via Google Video) ( click here to purchase a DVD and help support PBS). Cindy has also appeared on several radio programs to discuss Integrating Spirituality in the Workplace. An excellent free podcast of an interview with Cindy on this topic is available through the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University.

Cindy's most recent speach was at the 2006 Global Forum co-sponsored by the World Business Academy and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  She has also spokent at the 2003 Spirit in Business Conference and the 2003 and 2004 International Business and Consciousness Conference. Cindy has served as guest faculty in the Leadership Programs at Rice University, the University of Texas Nursing School and for Leadership Houston.  She is a member of the faculty of the Institute of Religion and Health.

Formerly Chair of the Selection Committee for the 2003 Willis Harman Spirit at Work Awards Cindy is now a member of the Board of the Association for Spirit at Work (www.spiritatwork.com ). She is a founding member of Spirit in Business (www.spiritinbusiness.com ). With Larry Stockman she co-authored (as Cynthia S. Graves) "Grown-Up Children Who Won't Grow Up."

Cindy is trained in: the Myers Briggs Type Indicator; Emotional Competence Inventory (Emotional Intelligence); Ken Wilber's Integral Theory; Spiral Dynamics Integral (by Dr. Don Beck), the Leadership Development Framework (by Susanne Cook-Greuter) and the Richard Barrett Values Assessment tools (www.valuescentre.com). She is the creator of the CPI Spiritual Intelligence Assessment instrument - the first skills-based and faith-neutral assessment of Spiritual Intelligence. Cindy holds dual Bachelors of Art in English and Education (magna cum laude) and a Masters of Art in Political Science (3.8 GPA) from Duke University.