Cindy Schmelzenbach

Professional Christian Coaching Institute · Jun 23, 2026

There’s a question Cindy Schmelzenbach, MCC often gets asked: When did you know coaching was the space you were made for?

Her answer surprises people. Not because it’s dramatic, but because it wasn’t a crisis that sent her toward coaching. It was a classroom.

She was finishing her Master’s in Counseling, working in cross-cultural humanitarian aid and community development, when she signed up for an elective: Introduction to Coaching, taught by Dr. Gary Collins.

“I took it and was completely hooked,” she says. “I knew this was the direction I wanted to…