Lynn is an outstanding listener quickly developing trust and making clients feel heard. She challenges and helps other people to work through issues and across barriers and look for commonality around their core purpose as a team or role within it. Able to surface the mistrust in a group’s dynamics, Lynn will ask the question that will shift her clients focus into finding a productive way forward. She is willing and able to take a group or individual to the edge of their learning in a way which is safe for her and for them. When groups are stuck, Lynn can creatively think of a way to enable the group to move through.
Lynn works with individuals and groups in the public sector, private sector and with charities.Clients have included senior managers and directors of organisations.She has often used her coaching skills to develop individuals, teams, organisations and mediate or resolve conflicts. Clients often feed back that from within a safe environment they have found her a very challenging coach!
Originally trained as a Speech and Language Therapist, Lynn became nationally recognised for work as a specialist in dysphagia (swallowing difficulties).Within this field she presented at national conferences and reviewed specialist publications.Over time her interest shifted to teaching and facilitation in the NHS and more recently to many professional groups, both locally and nationally.
Lynn initially received facilitation training through the Bucks Health Authority Preferred Facilitation Network and then completed the Newcastle College distance learning Diploma in Coaching.Aware that this did not give rigour to practical coaching skills she undertook Coaching for Excellence (3D) and the Coaching Development Certificate in Coaching.Most recently she has acquired her Professional Certified Coach accreditation.
Other training includes
Advanced Coaching Supervision, Bath Consulting Group
Supervising Teams and Organisations, Bath Consulting Group
Working with groups, Bath Consulting Group
Foundation Coaching Supervision, Bath Consulting Group
Lynn is trained to facilitate DiSC communication profiling as a tool to enable understanding of your own style and preference and how to maximise your communication effectiveness with others. Lynn was a founder member of Human Communication International, a multi-professional organisation promoting communication awareness and skills, and was Director of its inaugural conference.
Lynn is employed by 3D and is married with three increasingly grown-up children (one soon to fly the nest)She spends much of her spare time at swimming pools . . . watching the children keep fit!She is renowned for her doughnut juggling.
Lynn is an outstanding listener quickly developing trust and making clients feel heard. She challenges and helps other people to work through issues and across barriers and look for commonality around their core purpose as a team or role within it. Able to surface the mistrust in a group’s dynamics, Lynn will ask the question that will shift her clients focus into finding a productive way forward. She is willing and able to take a group or individual to the edge of their learning in a way which is safe for her and for them. When groups are stuck, Lynn can creatively think of a way to enable the group to move through.
Lynn initially received facilitation training through the Bucks Health Authority Preferred Facilitation Network and then completed the Newcastle College distance learning Diploma in Coaching.