Until third grade, Cindy Chastain knew only suburban Kansas, where people looked and sounded like her. Then her family took a trip to Dublin and Cindy befriended the children who lived in the B&B. \u201cThey spoke differently, they played different games. While it was a third grader\u2019s experience of the world,\u201d says Cindy. \u201cMy view of what was out there completely shifted.\u201d<\/p>\n
After graduating college, she joined fellow filmmakers in Moscow for a digital artistic exchange, creating a music video about bridging cultures. \u201cThat experience inspired such deep empathy for how my peers had lived under communist rule, how things were changing. It led me to Russian literature, Russian language,\u201d Cindy says. Thirty years later, the group is still bonded and close.<\/p>\n
As SVP of Customer Experience and Design for Mastercard\u2019s Global Products & Innovation, Cindy led the relaunch of the Mastercard brand and helped to drive its more modern and sophisticated brand globally. Recently, she modernized and digitized Mastercard\u2019s credit, debit, and prepaid product experiences, and previously led customer-centered digital transformation initiatives with Nike and Volvo, among others.<\/p>\n
Cindy is a creative at heart and works to develop products and services people will love. She says enjoyment is key to building lifelong loyalty. \u201cGlobal Nomads\u2019 user-centric and agile approach is not only effective from a learning perspective,\u201d Cindy explains, \u201c\u2014it\u2019s what gets students to emotionally meaningful, pleasurable experiences that they\u2019re going to want to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n
She applauds the organization for providing young people \u201cthe mental tools, character, and confidence to achieve\u201d and is thrilled to partner in its expansion. \u201cFrom its business model to the bonds between students, Global Nomads has the power to trigger organic growth,\u201d says Cindy. \u201cI want to see it ignite among teenagers and would love to be a partner in realizing that possibility.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1693,"template":"","class_list":["post-3917","board_of_directors","type-board_of_directors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board_of_directors\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board_of_directors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board_of_directors"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}