Role
Lynn Moline is a consultant, speaker, and trainer who helps leaders improve their organizations’ strategic positions and achieve business results through effective leadership, communication, strategic planning, and alignment of resources and processes.
In private practice since 1995, Lynn has worked with large and small businesses, including precision manufacturing and technology, nonprofits, educational institutions, professional services, health care, retail management, utilities, and government agencies. She has taken on projects as varied as leadership coaching for manufacturing and insurance managers to strategic planning for corporations and economic development agencies to problem-solving training for engineers. In all her client engagements, she injects practical knowledge and application for how to get things done. Lynn is also accomplished at coaching executives and managers on how to drive the organizational change and commitment necessary to achieve results from management practices like lean manufacturing and Six Sigma.
Background
Lynn’s drive for the practical stems from her background as a former business executive who spent two decades in corporate management roles including strategic planning, quality improvement, marketing, government relations, intrepreneurship, and public relations. Immediately before launching her consulting practice, she was President and Executive Director of the nationally acclaimed Minnesota Council for Quality where she led creation of the Minnesota Quality Award, one of the first state-level quality award programs in the country modeled after the Baldrige National Quality Award. Prior to that, she was Corporate Director of Quality at Xcel Energy (formerly Northern States Power).
Education & Professional Affiliations
- MBA, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis
- B.S., University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
- Professional certifications in facilitation and training
- Director of five executive peer groups for two professional associations
- Adjunct faculty: Normandale Community College, University of St. Thomas, and Century College
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