“Cynthia is an excellent, clear-eyed coach! It was so valuable and inspiring to set aside the time to bring my values and dreams into clearer focus - a step that’s all too easy to neglect. Cynthia offered several perspectives that I found fascinating and helpful. I walked away thinking, “Wow. It’s nice to meet me!””
Cynthia Cleto, MsC, is a consultant specializing in leadership coaching, innovation and entrepreneurship, program/product/change management, marketing and sales. Previously she was the Managing Director for Marketing, Outreach, and Entrepreneurship at Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, the commercialization engine of the Mount Sinai Health System.
Cynthia led strategic communications and the creation of diverse programs to engage with innovators, potential partners and the broader marketplace, to facilitate technology development and commercialization. She managed branding and positioning of new ventures spun out of Mount Sinai. Her group’s outcomes include an expanded technology pipeline, collaborations and sponsored research as well as revenue resulting from new ventures and economic development initiatives.
Prior to Mount Sinai, Cynthia was the Regional Systems Manager for North America within Elsevier’s research management and analytics unit, and was responsible for launching novel SaaS models that surface competencies and collaborative opportunities for research intensive organizations. She launched other products for the STEM market, including eBook Collections for Springer Science+Business Media, and Abstract/Indexing and Chemistry Databases for Elsevier as well as Thieme Medical Publishers.
Before entering the STEM Publishing field, her training included graduate studies and laboratory management in genomics laboratories at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her other interests include acting and improvisation, meditation and surfing.