Dr. Cynthia Skyers-Gordon
Founder & Wellness Strategist, SILWELL-C
With more than three decades of experience in education, leadership, and wellness advocacy, Dr. Cynthia Skyers-Gordon founded SILWELL-C: Staff-Inspired Leadership for Wellness & Calm to reimagine how staff well-being is prioritized and supported within organizations.
She believes meaningful workplace wellness begins with the people who experience the work every day. When staff are given a voice in shaping wellness and leaders create the conditions for their ideas to grow, organizations can build cultures where people feel valued, connected, and supported.
About the Founder
Drawing on her extensive career in early childhood education and her commitment to workplace well-being, Dr. Skyers-Gordon developed the SILWELL-C Orchid Model, a staff-inspired, leader-supported framework she uses to guide organizations in building individualized wellness programs that reflect their own people, needs, strengths, and workplace culture.
Our Core Values
• Empowerment – Wellness is most potent when it’s staff-led, not top-down.
• Authenticity – We honor the diverse ways individuals define and express self-care.
• Connection – Strong teams are rooted in empathy, trust, and collective well-being.
• Equity – Wellness must be inclusive and accessible for all, across roles and cultures.
• Sustainability – Wellness practices should be simple, meaningful, and built to last.
Our Core Values are grounded in the Orchid Model, the guiding framework behind SILWELL-C.
Empowering Wellness from Within
Through SILWELL-C, Dr. Skyers-Gordon partners with organizations to build individualized wellness programs shaped by their staff, needs, strengths, and workplace culture. Through collaborative guidance, practical tools, and the SILWELL-C framework, staff voice becomes part of the process while leaders create the support needed for wellness to take root. The result is an approach to workplace wellness that is authentic, sustainable, and truly built from within.