Dr. Cynthia "Cindy" J. Young is the Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC, a knowledge management consulting firm, and the Tomahawk Mission Planning Cell Curriculum Development and Training Lead with Leidos in Virginia Beach, VA. About a decade ago, she retired as a Surface Warfare Officer after 23 years in the U.S. Navy which is where her love for knowledge management began.

She holds professional certifications as a Project Management Professional, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and as an ASQ-Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence. Cindy served as the ASQ Tidewater Section 1128 secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair using knowledge management practices to better support the volunteer section leaders as well as the members. She is a member of ASQ and PMI.

Cindy is also a speaker and a writer including as a Forbes Career columnist and a quarterly Management columnist of Industrial Systems Engineering Magazine.

In September 2020, she gave a TEDx Talk called "A Knowledge Mindset: What You Know Comes from Where You Sit" which provides actions organizations can take to improve trust and retention using knowledge management practices.

In February 2023, her book, The Knowledge Management Memory Jogger, was published by Goal/QPC and in December 2025, her book, Invisible Introvert: How to Be Seen, Heard, and Promoted Without Playing Office Politics was published by Game Changer Publishing.

Contact her at cjyoung@cjyoungconsulting.com and find her offerings at https://www.cjyoungconsulting.com.  

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