CDG was founded by Cynthia Driskill in 1980 to provide exceptional Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) consulting services. Since 1987, when the company was incorported, CDG has become a leader in consulting services for the implementation, management, and optimization of Human Capital Management (HCM) on a national level. CDG specializes in integrating HR issues with business strategies. As a certified Women-owned Business Enterprise, we work with our clients toward the mutual goal of meeting diversity initiatives. Today, CDG's company legacy of rock-solid client service lives on through the generations under the corporate leadership of Deborah Driskill.

Deborah Driskill, CEO

 

“Our emphasis is on integrity, quality and exceptional client service. We are one of the few consulting firms who guarantee our project work. CDG stands for Consulting Delivery Guaranteed,” Driskill says.
Deborah Driskill is the president & CEO of CDG where she manages the executive team and all critical outside resources. She is responsible for the corporate strategy, corporate mission and internal alignment of all company functions. Driskill launched her career at CDG as their receptionist in 1996 and has since performed virtually every job function within the organization. She was previously senior vice president. In 2006 the company founder, Deborah’s mother, Cynthia Driskill, retired, and Driskill was named president of CDG.

Driskill is an alumnus of Leadership America, and serves on the board of March of Dimes. Driskill also co-founded the CEOs Walk the Walk team, an innovative concept that brought together CEOs of small businesses to raise money for March of Dimes. The team successfully raised over a quarter million dollars from its inception through 2005.Driskill still is actively involved in supporting the organization.

Driskill holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. She received her mediation certification from The National Mediation Academy and her advanced practitioner certification from NLP Learning Systems.

CYnthia Driskill, Founder


"Our longstanding commitment to our clients, to our ethical standards, and to supporting our community, has allowed us provide exceptional client satisfaction," says Cynthia Driskill.
In 1980 Cynthia Driskill was a young woman in a dead-end data-entry job, with no college education and no money. Today she's the founder of an award-winning corporation, a past Entrepreneur Of The Year, winner of the Dallas Business Ethics Award, and has been recognized as a 2003 Women of Excellence by the YWCA and Women's Enterprise Magazine.

Cynthia Driskill founded CDG in 1981 when she began working as an independent consultant. In 1987, with more work than she could handle, she incorporated CDG and hired her first employees across her kitchen table, financing the company with her personal receivables. The four original employees, three of whom are still with CDG, were the prototype for the consultants CDG would hire over the coming years, people like herself‹intelligent, ethical, perfectionist, driven by the need to excel according to their own standards rather than by money alone.

In 1995 Driskill became the full-time CEO and CDG's growth exploded. She began learning the business of business. She aggressively adopted open-book management, and then established an employee stock-ownership plan.Practicing the principles of servant leadership herself, she strives to achieve a company full of servant leaders, employees who without exception see themselves as partners with management in making sure CDG realizes its goals.

Driskill attributes much of her business knowledge to following the great business leaders of today.She studies and implements the philosophies and advice of such business greats as Jim Collins, David Maister, Verne Harnish, and Eliayahu Goldratt.She is not afraid to seek advice and help, and has become an outstanding businesswoman herself, frequently mentoring others.

Driskill has been acknowledged for her contributions to the business world and for her extraordinary personal accomplishments with a host of prestigious awards including Ernst & Young∞s Southwest Area 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 2001 National General Excellence award by Working Woman Magazine, the Small Business Administration's 2001 Small Businessperson of the Year award, the 2002 Greater Dallas Society of Financial Services Professionals Business Ethics Award, and the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce's 2001 Small Business of the Year award.

In addition to her business accomplishments, Driskill has served her community with board memberships, by serving as a judge for SIFE and Entrepreneur Of The Year local and national awards, and by creating and nurturing a team of CEOs for March of Dimes that raised over $100,000 in its second year. Driskill believes that with the wealth of knowledge earned over her seventeen years as a business owner she has much to contribute and makes it her business to do so.

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