Ciara Henschke

Senior Consultant

About

Ciara Henschke leads FMG Leading client engagements that enable execution by aligning leaders, teams, and culture around strategic priorities. As a Senior Consultant, she brings disciplined thinking, steady facilitation, and strong engagement leadership to work that helps leaders translate strategy into clear priorities, shared commitments, and coordinated action.

Ciara’s work spans strategic leader development design and delivery, team effectiveness, culture, organizational design, and facilitation. She partners with leaders and teams navigating growth, change, and complex operating environments, with particular relevance across healthcare, private equity-backed organizations, veterinary services, distributed healthcare models, and mission-driven organizations. Clients and leaders trust her to create the conditions for candid dialogue, stronger alignment, and practical movement on the priorities that matter most to enterprise performance.

Ciara is known for bringing depth, presence, and practical judgment to complex leadership conversations. She helps leaders move from insight to action, strengthening the mindsets, behaviors, and team dynamics that turn strategy into sustained performance.

Before joining FMG Leading, Ciara served as an ESL educator in France, where she developed a strong appreciation for cultural complexity and inclusive learning environments. She also brings experience from law, real estate, and financial services, with a consistent focus on the intersection of human potential, intentional strategy, and organizational performance.

Ciara earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and French & Francophone Studies with a minor in Business Administration from Penn State University. She obtained an honors distinction from the Schreyer Honors College following the publication of her senior thesis on the analysis of gender in French literature. Ciara has also completed study abroad programs in Quebec and Montreal, Canada and Paris, France. She is currently pursuing her International Coaching Federation coaching certification to deepen her executive coaching practice.

Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Ciara now resides in San Diego, CA. When not working, she can be found surfing and skiing alongside family and friends. She also enjoys hot yoga, trail running, and video design. Ciara is an avid explorer of new places, cultures, and people.

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