Candace is a business leader from Silicon Valley and a Certified Professional Coach with a proven ability to provide strategic insight and operational effectiveness, enabling clients to perform at their best. Through her consulting and coaching firm, CP Jones Consulting LLC, she assists entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses in achieving their goals, whether by defining objectives and next steps, prioritizing current projects, or introducing new business ventures. Candace employs distinctive methods that draw on her training in management science, business administration, and operations management. After 15 years of successful performance in Corporate America, she now collaborates with individuals and small enterprises to develop and execute strategies based on "empathetic optimization," a term she created to illustrate how to enhance outcomes in sales, engagement, and well-being while acknowledging two key concepts. In addition to her consulting work, Candace writes on various subjects, from life tips to the future of work, often incorporating humor. Her blog reflects her lifelong passion for merging systems thinking with practical wisdom to achieve results for her clients, community, and herself by any means necessary. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Candace resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their charming yet mischievous houseplants.