Helping leaders build cultures where "Every Voice is Heard"
How her journey began
As part of her career growth, Lynne had the opportunity to become a member of a high performing leadership team for a “pilot” division of a Fortune 100 Company. The team built a highly innovative team-based manufacturing facility, resulting in benchmarking requests by many Fortune 100 companies and training houses.
This was a start-up. The team built the business from the “ground up”. Not only did the team build the manufacturing plant to support the organization’s goals, it also designed and implemented a culture that would support a high performing team environment.
Concurrently, Lynne was attending Pepperdine’s M.S. Organization Development Degree Program. Therefore, many theoretical processes that she learned at Pepperdine were applied in the company’s “learning lab” environment.
Success became the destination
The team was quite successful in its endeavors.
One of the team’s engineers analyzed the business success as a topic for her Master’s Thesis and compared the productivity with the manufacturing plant that previously built the product. She measured a 50% increase in productivity over an 18-month period of time in comparison to the original manufacturing plant.
The business processes were eventually tried in other parts of the organization and resulted in similar successes.
How Lynne was transformed as a leader
Lynne heard one message loud and clear that made a difference: it was vitally important for “every voice to be heard.” By doing so, the team created commitment and a common vision among all of its team members and streamlined work processes to meet rigorous goals.
As a leader, Lynne learned that team members can “breathe easier” if they get their authentic voice heard in the workplace – then they can better own what they help to create!
Once Lynne had this experience, it became her passion and her life’s work to help other leaders transform. She created her consulting business, Lynne Brown and Associates, LLC, in 1996. Her products evolved as a result of the research, design, and implementation of systems that worked.
Her mission
The mission for her business is that “every voice is heard”. She helps leaders hear their own voices and discover their own authenticity; this helps them create a culture of trust and collaboration.
Her vision
Lynne’s dream is to transform leaders and organizations to be their best and most successful while bringing joy into the workplace.
Her values and beliefs as a human being
Be true to yourself.
Stay curious.
Never give up on someone.
Anything is possible.
Change happens.
Believe in miracles.
Cause no harm.
Have fun.
Her Philosophy on Life—–Thank You Pema Chodron
Gloriousness and Wretchedness Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that’s all that’s happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness–life’s painful aspect–softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. When you are feeling a lot of grief, you can look right into somebody’s eyes because you feel you haven’t got anything to lose–you’re just there. The wretchedness humbles us and softens us, but if we were only wretched, we would all just go down the tubes. We’d be so depressed, discouraged, and hopeless that we wouldn’t have enough energy to eat an apple. Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.
Her education and experience
Lynne has an M.S. in Organization Development from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (1994) and a B.A. Degree in English from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1975).
She has a Leadership Coaching Certificate from Georgetown University, Arlington, Virginia (2009).
She received her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation (2011).
For over twenty years, she was a human resources and organization development leader with domestic and international experience in both the commercial and government sectors.
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