Cindy Tien

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Cindy Tien is an EQ Maven who empowers leaders and sales teams to strengthen connections, conquer challenges, and communicate with influence.

She holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) credential, the industry’s highest internationally recognised measure of professional platform competence, held by fewer than 12% of speakers worldwide.

With over two decades of real-world corporate experience – ten years negotiating high-value deals in multinational corporations and more than another decade coaching and training professionals across luxury brands, financial institutions, and global giants like American Express, Citibank, and S&P Global – Cindy brings rare credibility to every stage.

What makes her different? Cindy doesn’t just teach emotional leadership. She embodies it. Having overcome near-bankruptcy, addictions, and two major hip surgeries, her personal journey is a powerful story of radical resilience.

Her trademark blend of unfiltered honesty, dark humour, and disarming empathy helps audiences confront their blind spots, break through barriers, and transform the way they lead, sell, and live.

Whether she’s working with leaders or elite sales teams in a keynote or masterclass, Cindy’s mission is clear: to break through their BS, inspire change, and turn their EQ into influence – for improved results, relationships, and resilience.

Breakthrough your BS to influence yourself

” Many of us are capable, driven, and doing all the “right” things. And yet – something’s off. We’re unfulfilled or stuck performing competence on repeat while quietly wondering, is this it?”


This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a truth problem.

In this session, Cindy invites the audience to look uncomfortably inward and confront the invisible barriers running the show at work – the internal rules, reflexes, and stories that quietly dictate behaviour, decisions, and self-worth.

Drawing from her book Inside and real workplace dynamics, Cindy introduces the three-part BS cocktail that keeps smart people shackled.

By seeing themselves clearly, the audience moves out of self-deception and builds self-influence – to choose how they lead and live.

Key Takeaways

  1. Recognise the real reasons behind your unfulfilled potential
  2. Identify the three-part BS cocktail shaping your behaviour
  3. Build self-confidence to shift your influence at work

Available in

  • 30-45 min Keynote
  • 90 min Masterclass
  • Customisation available

Voices of the Community

I had the privilege of working with Cindy this year and last on our internal Johnson & Johnson pillar program known as Women's Diversity and Inclusion for elevating presence and engaging crucial stakeholders within our region. Her content was leveraged to enhance our leadership profiles in Singapore and the Asia Pacific. She carries a wonderful presence about her, is extremely engaging and profession - and is an incredible delight to work with. We are so truly lucky to have discovered a partner in Cindy!

Jacqueline Tan
APAC Lead, Change and Communications at Johnson & Johnson
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Cindy facilitated an insightful personal branding session with Citibank in which I was a participant. The programme was filled with interactive activities, meaningful discussions, and reflective learnings with excellent facilitation standards. Cindy is an authentic and impactful speaker and coach who has the ability to inspire transformation.

Ng Seok Yee
Legal Entity Controller at Citibank
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