About

Cinda Ball has raised four daughters with her husband Curt, in New Hope, Pennsylvania where she is Vice President of Marketing for Fundamental Labor Strategies, a family business. She graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University in 1987 and joined the Peace Corps, where she served two years in Belize as a Small Enterprise Specialist working with Care International in Mayan Indian villages. Cinda then worked at the United Nations Capital Development Fund before earning an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduating as a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow in 1993. For five years, she worked in marketing of diabetes products in the Consumer Products Division of Becton Dickinson and Company.

In 1997, her first daughter, Avery, was diagnosed 15 days after birth with Prader Willi Syndrome, a congenital birth defect caused by missing genetic material on Chromosome 15 that affects 1 in 15,000 people born worldwide. Parenting Avery brought Cinda into a new world of supporting a child with special needs medically, developmentally, socially, educationally, and emotionally. Grounded in her lived experience, and in the strategic approaches she absorbed at Harvard Business School, Cinda has created a workshop to help bring some insight and frameworks to other families.

Hummingbirds are small. When they are present, the world stops, pauses, and notices. We are filled with a sense of awe and that awe reminds me of what children and adults who experience life differently are here to teach us, to pause and take note.