Cynthia D. Kunz

Cynthia Kunz is the president of the Kunz and Company and is a mediator and facilitator.  She has specialized in institutional dispute and conflict prevention, management, and resolution in workplace and labor cases, cases arising in nonprofit and service providing organizations, and in Federal policy, grantee, and contractor matters for more than 20 years.  Ms. Kunz manages a diverse practice of private and public sector cases.  She has designed strategic planning and conflict management processes, conducted organizational assessments, and facilitated process and practice improvements for Federal, State, and local agencies and for national and local organizations in the fields of disability policy, education, environment, health care, labor-management relations, substance abuse, youth and family services, and vocational training.

Ms. Kunz has held positions at several levels of government and in several private and not-for-profit organizations, all involving reform initiatives and the implementation of complex, systemic change for individuals and organizations.  She has served at the municipal level as the first ombudsman jointly appointed by the Mayor and City Council.  She has served at the State government level where she was responsible for planning the training and credentialing processes for a workforce newly subject to licensing requirements.  She has also served in three regional positions supporting the dissemination of knowledge and the improvement in practitioner performance in the substance abuse field and has served on numerous Federal agency advisory and technical panels convened to consider emerging issues, process improvements, and changes in practice. She has worked on process improvement, new practices development, and conflict prevention projects for several private organizations and for the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Labor.  Ms. Kunz has facilitated the negotiation of integrated planning and budgeting for systems reform of services for children, youth, and families in two counties in Maryland and facilitated the State's re-engineering of rate setting for children in certain types of residential care.

Ms. Kunz has worked with a variety of private and not-profit organizations facing particular challenges or conflicts.  She served as strategic planning facilitator for ……….and special assistant to the president of a health care system specializing in children with disabilities and chronic medical conditions as it prepared a Medicaid waiver.  Ms. Kunz also served as the facilitator and mediator for an international labor-management cooperation program of the wholesale baking industry and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

She is currently directing work with the Army Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, The CDM Group, Defense Acquisition University, the Human Interaction Research Institute and with the Research Foundation of the City of New York and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Ms. Kunz was the Army Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program's first facilitator and is currently directing work with several technical and site specific teams of Federal, State, and local officials working toward the destruction of the nation's chemical weapons under treaty.  She serves as the  government's negotiator for Federal Drug-Free Workplace Programs under a contract with The CDM Group, Inc. and is currently facilitating the team fielding the Workplace Resource Center, a website providing resources to promote healthy and productive employees in safe and drug-free workplaces through science-based programs and research.  Ms. Kunz was also the Defense Acquisition University's first facilitator and has facilitated the work of Functional Integrated Product/Process Teams in all of the acquisition career fields as well as several inter-functional and forward planning groups.  She is currently co-directing a project with the Human Interaction Research Institute to provide lessons learned and a substantive oral history of the National 4-H Council's effort to address youth health problems through life skills training and tobacco use prevention.  Ms. Kunz also directs work with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on process improvements in the operations of its Federally funded research, including National Center for the Advancement of Prevention.

Ms. Kunz is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in history of Hamline University and has pursued post-graduate studies in public administration and conflict analysis and resolution.

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