Lynne Morton Speaker & Booking Information

Lynne Morton Founder, and Principal/ Performance Improvement (PI) Solutions, is a management consultant and executive coach, whose multi-disciplinary career spans the consulting and corporate worlds. She is a globally recognized thought leader in talent management, having worked with senior leadership teams in North America, Europe, and Africa for 20+ years. She is the author of Integrated and Integrative Talent Management: A Strategic HR Framework (The Conference Board), Talent Value Imperatives (The Conference Board), and Differentiating Talent Management (CRF Publishing). In Feb. 2009, Lynne is receiving the HR Leadership Award at the World HRD Congress in Mumbai, India, in recognition of her accomplishments. Lynne is also Co-founder of TalentScope, the provider of TalentStudio™ and SalesStudio™. During 2008, she served as its Chief Operating and Chief Marketing Officer. She has incorporated her prior background in quality management with her expertise in talent management, creating a unique blend of results-focused counsel, truly uniting people and process. Ms. Morton's work has included strategic assessments/planning, presentations, workshops, meeting/team facilitation, research, and the use of web-enabled collaborative and eLearning platforms. Her clients are Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-profits and have included Navistar/International Truck & Engine, Dell, John Hancock, Morgan Stanley, Herman Miller, Lehman Bros., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Cengage, , Canadian Housing & Mortgage Corp., Wolters Kluwer, Fried Frank, DBM, LearnShare, AstraZeneca, VURV, and The Conference Board. A frequent speaker and author, Ms. Morton has been featured on programs at The Institute for the Future, The Conference Board, HR-NY/SHRM, The Mergers & Acquisitions Institute, Comdex, Coaching Circles, OD Network, AMA, Danish Industries Leadership Summit, Cranfield University, and NYU. She has been interviewed by numerous publications including New York Newsday, Consulting Today, Crain's New York Business, LIM Newsletter, Human Capital Institute Newsletter, and The Alexander Hamilton Institute Bulletin. Her ideas have appeared in OD and HR publications in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Co-author of The Primordial Bond (Plenum Publ., 1980), she was also a contributor to Breakpoint BPR (Coopers & Lybrand, 1992) and to Out of Site: An Inside Look at Outsourcing (IHRIM, 2004). Prior to forming PI Solutions in 2001, Ms. Morton was Associate Director, Global Knowledge Management at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was a member of the management team and head of the thought leadership program. She was also Director, Coopers & Lybrand, Management Consulting Services; Vice President for Quality and Corporate Communication, Seabury & Smith (Marsh & McLennan). Ms. Morton began her career in the art and publishing worlds and continues to bring the perspectives of the creative arts to her consulting and coaching. Additionally, she has facilitated nearly 100 teams, working face-to-face or virtually, and has served as a Judge in AQP's Team Awards. Along with coaching executives and professionals at various levels, she has counseled displaced companies and employees affected by Sept. 11, in coordination with the NYC Mayor's Office and Coaching Circles. Ms. Morton was a Member of the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and of the Steering Committee for the Empire State Advantage Program. Lynne Morton holds a B.A. degree from Vassar College and an M.A. degree from Georgetown University. She is a National Advisory Board member, Human Capital Institute; an Advisor to Aruspex; and a member, Society for Organizational Learning. A native New Yorker, she has been a volunteer consultant to Lincoln Center's Consolidated Corporate Fund and a facilitator for AmericaSpeaks Network. Ms. Morton is certified in Lominger's Career Architect™ and DiSC™ assessments.