Cynthia S. Miller is Executive Director, Training and Development, for Amgen, Inc., the world's largest international biotechnology company, based in Thousand Oaks, California. She and her global staff assess, design, implement and evaluate training for Amgen's manufacturing and quality managers and staff. Prior to joining Amgen, she was the Senior Vice President of Training and Development for Home Savings of America's nationwide banking network.

Her work experience includes applied expertise in training and organizational development, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, sales and operations management in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Theology from Georgetown University and two Masters Degrees from Fielding Graduate University, one in Organization Design and Effectiveness, the second in Human Development. Cindy is currently earning her Ph. D. in Human and Organization Systems with Fielding.

Cindy's current research focuses on Meaningful Work over the Life Course. Her recently awarded Creative Longevity and Wisdom Student Fellowship will support her dissertation study to explore the ways people describe the experience of meaningful work and how these descriptions of meaning change as they age. Using a qualitative research approach employing narrative inquiry through a semi-structured interview process, she plans to conduct a retrospective study to examine the journeys of 15-20 research participants age 60+ as they describe the meaning of their work experiences in early, mid, and late-career.

This research builds upon the pilot study conducted as part of her masters' thesis on Meaningful Work and Performance. Her results indicate that meaningful work is personally defined, and socially acknowledged and reinforced. She also found an indication that those engaged in meaningful work perceive their own level of performance to be above average. Other research interests include adult development over the life course, the role of spirituality and faith in life purpose and choice, human agency, training and development, organizational behavior and change, and adult learning and development with a focus in on-line learning in graduate education.

Cindy and her family live in Southern California where she enjoys life as a wife of a terrific and supportive husband and a mother of two great sons.