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“We get to choose how we approach our lives, how we react to what the universe throws at us.”
–Dr. Cindy
Book Dr. Cindy for Your Next Event
Cindy has always been a fighter. Life has put her in the ring with some big opponents. You might say cancer was the toughest of the lot. She would say no way. Cindy came out swinging with a great attitude and learned that her dance with cancer was actually a great training exercise for life’s other challenges.
Blending her medical know-how and sharp wit, Cindy shares her insights and inspiration with a warmhearted delivery that audiences find authentic and entertaining.
Cindy's Keynote Message
Dr. Cindy’s keynote is like a shot in the arm you’ve actually been waiting for. When she diagnosed herself with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Cindy had the foresight to begin journaling during her walk through cancer.
While some of her entries give us a rare glimpse of her internal fight, many more reveal the daily life-affirming events and the bigger lessons. Decisions were easier, and what mattered became clearer.
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Signature Keynote
SHIFT™: Overcoming Negativity Bias to Perform Under Pressure
This keynote reframes stress, adversity, and change through the lens of biology, language, and choice.
Blending neuroscience, functional medicine, and personal story, Dr. Cindy shows audiences how to:
- Interrupt the brain’s default negativity loop.
- Use language to influence mood, meaning, and biological response.
- Reframe chaos into clarity—and pressure into performance.
- Build emotional and physical endurance that holds under real-world demands.
It’s science-backed. It’s deeply human. And it sticks.
Workshop Programs
Workshops provide a hands-on extension of Cindy’s SHIFT keynote message, equipping participants with tactical tools they can practice immediately.
Words That Mobilize: Shifting Language to SHIFT Outcomes
Language patterns shape how well you perform and adapt to change. Cindy helps participants recognize negative self-talk and experiment with replacement words that rewire perception. Attendees leave with a toolkit of simple reframes to reduce stress and boost momentum.
Your Plate Informs Performance: Nutrition Strategies to Optimize Resilience
What’s on your plate determines how you show up. Cindy connects food, brain chemistry, and stress response, sharing practical swaps and fueling strategies that sharpen focus, strengthen immunity, and sustain energy under pressure.
From Adversity to Advantage: Training Body and Mind to Bounce Back
Adapting to change isn’t just about surviving setbacks—it’s about recovering stronger. This integrative session combines nutrition, mindset, and body-based practices that help participants design daily habits to support resilience at work and at home.
About Dr. Cindy
Dr. Cindy M. Howard won the parent lottery with an adoring mother and father who helped with school projects, Halloween costumes, and bad boyfriends and who had an outlook on life that fed Cindy’s quick wit.
She spent her youth at two opposite ends of the athletic spectrum: participating in professional dancing, thanks to hours of watching Solid Gold, and competitive powerlifting, winning titles in both bench press and dead lift. (Cindy’s gym was located in the middle of a cemetery. We’ll let you work out the irony between the dead-lift title and the gravestones.)
Today, Cindy excels as a board-certified chiropractic internist and nutritionist, running her own successful practice. She keeps a packed schedule, treating pediatric patients, professional athletes, and everyone in between with conditions ranging from fatigue to autoimmune disease.
Cindy diagnosed herself with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and that soon became the test for what she has always believed: We get to choose how we approach our lives, how we react to what the universe throws at us. Her new book, Positively Altered, celebrates this belief system.
Cindy likes to test her humor at home with her kids. They like to say she’s “so not funny that it makes her funny,” which is confusing, because doesn’t that mean she is funny?
When Cindy’s not seeing patients or speaking onstage, she’s navigating life in the South Suburbs of Chicago with her boyfriend, Keith, and her three amazing kids.
If you’d like to experience some of your own daily inspiration, download Dr. Cindy’s “Daily Loves” gratitude journal to get you started.
Cindy’s No Stranger to Wowing Audiences
For more than 15 years, Dr. Cindy has left a wake of smiles down the audience aisles. As a medical professional, she’s been on stage with plenty of doctors in the audience—tough crowd!
She’s spoken to tens of thousands of people—from intimate groups, where she’s facilitating discussions, to several thousand people at a time, when she’s featured in the “big show.” Either group size or somewhere in between is always where Cindy feels most alive.
“Though my cancer journey was what inspired me to begin journaling, that challenge isn’t the point of my life or this book. Cancer was just the test for something that I’ve always believed, which is that we get to choose how we approach our lives, how we react to what the universe throws at us. I want to unpack that learning moment with you.”
– Dr. Cindy