Talent Advisory

We provide executive & leadership coaching, internal career pathing, and outplacement services.

Our service offerings are designed to optimize talent and drive employee engagement and retention.

Executive & Leadership Coaching

  • Onboarding—facilitating the process of successfully onboarding individuals into the organization and into new roles

  • Role transition—from taking on new roles to stretch assignments; stepping into a new function or leadership role

  • Manager coaching—developmental coaching for managers and those stepping into a management role; hiring process readiness and strategic team building

  • Outplacement—supporting employee transitioning out of the organization

Internal Career Pathing

  • Identifying individual strengths and growth opportunities

  • Charting potential internal career paths

  • Building action plans toward short-term and long-term goals

Outplacement Services

  • 3- and 6-month one-to-one live custom career coaching engagements for senior-level employees

  • Hybrid program—online career transition course and live sessions

Our philosophy

  • Individuals must be intentional and take action relevant to their own career advancement.

  • Managers should engage in career pathing conversations.

  • Organizations can drive retention through supporting this process.

Meet the Coaches

Our Coaching Programs are shaped and led by CFW Co-Owners, Rachel Fagnant-Fassler and Cynnie King, whose diverse professional and educational backgrounds converged over a decade ago in the executive search and coaching field at CFW Careers.

Cynnie King, CEO and Co-Owner of CFW Careers, has helped individuals navigate every career stage, serving both as a recruiter and trusted career advisor. As an executive coach, Cynnie focuses on identifying and fully realizing professional potential. Having launched her career in sales 30 years ago, she went on to sell for creative agencies, serving as Managing Partner of an international branding consultancy. She was VP of an executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational development consultancy, WJM Associates.

Rachel Fagnant-Fassler, President and Co-Owner of CFW Careers, has worked with individuals across professional levels and industries. As a coach, Rachel specializes in all aspects of career development, management best practices, and career pathing. Rachel has a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan and earned her MA in Counseling at NYU. She worked in clinical roles in several nonprofit organizations before shifting into the corporate sphere, now coaching hiring managers and executives. Her expertise has informed CFW’s search, coaching and talent consulting services for over a decade.

What our clients are saying

  • “I would definitely work with CFW again for future professional development programs. I had a number of managers—including those who didn’t even participate in the training!—tell me that the take-aways were perfect. CFW’s training programs are easily implemented across all departments, and our team is already putting what they learned to use.”

    — Chris Pini Former SVP Sales and Business Development, Money-Media

  • “Not only did CFW help introduce us to the right candidates, they advised us on how to develop the right interview process to help us meet our goals of mitigating unconscious bias and building a diverse workforce. Ultimately this led to developing a stronger team with high achievement, high satisfaction, and high retention rates over many years. As I continue to build out revenue teams, I will always rely on CFW as the go-to partner for talent strategy, hiring process, and recruitment.”

    — David Iankelevich, General Manager, North America, Sellics

  • “I couldn’t have been more pleased with the CFW Careers Onboarding Program, an effort that has and will continue to bring a huge return on investment for Critical Mention. More than just process, the CFW team took the time to learn our company culture and values and worked them into a solid turnkey onboarding program.”

    - Steve Shannon, Former VP of Sales, Critical Mention

  • “Cynthia is a professional in every sense of the word. She is an incredibly knowledgeable resource in career counseling as well as extremely devoted to those she works with. She ensured that I was well prepared for every position and offered her advice and guidance every step of the way. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a career coach!”

    - Brendan Spain, VP, Advertising, Financial Times

  • “Rachel did an incredible job helping me to revamp my resume, highlighting skills geared specifically toward my target roles. Rachel also helped me prepare for my first and second interviews, providing excellent guidance on how to talk through my career narrative and role play through key interview questions. I would not have made it to the final round and subsequent job offer without CFW! “

    - Marsha Golod, Customer Success Manager, iManage

  • “The CFW Careers Coaching program is instrumental in navigating this climate of uncertainty. They have masterfully condensed (nearly) 50 years of career counseling into one effective program. Working with their team has helped me successfully transition into the work I feel called to do. Each person on the CFW Careers team has provided the most beneficial career path consultations. With their transitional coaching I have embarked on the next steps of my career path”-

    -Sherry Adams, former SVP Content, eMarketer