Cynthia Clark is an award-winning tenured professor, professor emeritus, strategic nursing advisor for Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) Nursing Education and the founder of Civility Matters®.

She is a Fellow in both the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education, and serves as co-chair of the American Nurses Association Professional Panel on Incivility, Bullying and Workplace Violence. Her groundbreaking work on fostering civility has brought national and international attention to the issues of incivility in academic and practice environments.

Her theory-driven interventions, empirical measurements, theoretical models and reflective assessments provide best practices to foster civility and healthy work environments around the globe. She is a prolific researcher, presenter, author and professional blogger. Her presentations number in the hundreds, and her publications have appeared in a broad range of peer-reviewed and open-access venues.

She is the recipient of numerous teaching, research and service awards, including the prestigious Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Education, awarded by Sigma Theta Tau International. The first edition of her book, Creating and Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education, received first-place honors as the 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year.