About Us

Good Advisors LLC, is an leadership development and consulting organization led by Cindy Cheatham focused on planning, board development, and organizational development for a diverse range of national, regional and local nonprofits and social-impact minded businesses.   Ms. Cheatham is also a leadership coach for leaders and individuals in transition and who are seeking transformation.

Founder Cindy Cheatham is passionate about helping individuals and organizations to develop their future vision and a roadmap to success and impact.  She brings deep experience coaching individuals and leaders through personal and professional growth and impact.  As coach and consultant, Ms. Cheatham has a keen ability to quickly understand the person and the situation, to ask high impact questions, and to guide and support leaders toward development and achievement of personal and professional goals.  

Cindy's motivation is to help unleash the potential in everyone to be courageous, to be their best selves and to flourish at work, in relationships and with wellness.

Through Good Advisors, Ms. Cheatham has coached and advised hundreds of leaders and managers toward success and impact.  She is a generalist with experience in many sectors including technology, education (K-12 and higher education), healthcare, nonprofit and professional services.  Prior to Good Advisors, Ms. Cheatham  served as the VP of Consulting for the Georgia Center for Nonprofits.  She also served as Venture Catalyst at Georgia Tech’s ATDC  where she advised and coached entrepreneurs and worked to build the entrepreneurial ecosystem.   Ms. Cheatham began her consulting career with leading management consultancy Bain & Company 

Ms. Cheatham is a frequent speaker on topics including leadership and succession, strategic and business planning, governance, collaborations and partnerships, nonprofit business models , social enterprise and entrepreneurship.  She is an expert facilitator.  

Ms. Cheatham is active in the community where she serves as an elder of North Avenue Presbyterian Church and a board-member of a youth-based education and sport for good nonprofit.  She served in a variety of volunteer roles with Dekalb County Schools.    Ms. Cheatham is a 2010 fellow of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education (GPEE) Policy Fellowship Program.   And she is a Leadership Atlanta alumni.  

She is a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tarheel Honors Graduate and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.