Dr. Cynthia “Cindy” J. Young is a Navy Veteran of 23 years, the Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC, a knowledge management consulting firm as a Career and Leadership Strategist, as well as the Tomahawk Mission Planning Center Certification and Training Lead with Leidos in Virginia Beach, VA. 

Cindy is a public speaker and has given a TEDx talk called “A Knowledge Mindset: What You Know Comes from Where You Sit. She writes for Forbes.com twice a month on Careers and Knowledge Management, and is a quarterly management columnist for Industrial Systems Engineering Magazine. She has also written articles for Harvard Business Review, contributing to their Women at Work series in the book Overcoming Ageism, as well as for other outlets. She also authored the multi-award-winning book, The Knowledge Management Memory Jogger.