Cinda Gorman is passionate about connecting people to meet challenges. This includes the challenges of their everyday lives, a feeling of being "stuck" or the need to see through the fog to a life they can be excited about.

 

Now through her Life and Career Coaching Practice, Seasons of Purpose, Cinda connects people with their future. Some people have the privilege of anticipating a new season of life such as an empty nest, retirement, or change of career. Others are thrust into a new season by circumstance. In either case, Cinda coaches younger and older folks through a purposeful process to a future life plan that will make their heart sing. She uses the Life Purpose Process and the tools gained in years of professional and real life experience.

 

Cinda has faced the personal challenges of making wise decisions about education, caregiving, geographical moves and career moves that balanced marriage, parenting and professional roles. She launched her Life and Career Coaching practice Seasons of Purpose as the "next step" in her lengthy career as a Presbyterian pastor in rural, suburban, and urban church settings in four states.

 

Her academic training includes a B.A. from Whitworth University; M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary; and a D. Min. from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She is certified as a Life and Career Coach by the Life Purpose Institute, San Diego, California; an MBTI Practitioner; and a Strengths Performance Coach by Gallup Inc.

 

In 2000 she was named a Cincinnati Enquirer "Woman of the Year." She had just returned from a village in rural Kenya where she "went solo" to scout out the Habitat for Humanity Global Village trip that she would lead in 2002. The Rev. Dr. Gorman is a leader who sets projects in motion. She connects people to programs. She encourages them to believe that they can do more together than they can apart. She sees a need and seeks a way to fill it.

 

Cinda and her husband, Rev.Dr.Steve Gorman, were presented the Alumni Mind and Heart Award from Whitworth University in 2005. Those words, Mind and Heart, point to the intelligence and wit she brings to tasks as well as the enthusiasm and faith foundation with which she embraces challenges and opportunities.

 

She and Steve enjoy their three grown children, their spouses and six grandchildren and have them to thank for a computer full of memorable digital photos. In addition to the 2002 Global Village trip to Kenya, Steve and Cinda have sailed in the Galapagos Islands, hiked above Machu Picchu; climbed the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan Peninsula and feasted on the sights and sounds of great theatre in Canada, Oregon, England, and on Broadway. They regularly enjoy the Tony Award Winning Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati as well as gardening, camping, biking, hiking, DIY and entertaining.