Chair

Caroline Smale

Lynn Mead FCPFA

Lynn is a dynamic, curious and highly competent coach, trainer, speaker and consultant with over 35 years of Public Sector experience, 21 of these in a senior financial and management consultancy capacity. These have focussed on delivering a range of strategic and high impact projects. Lynn is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).

Lynn has extensive experience within local government (County, Unitary and District Councils), working across most departments, as well as a Russell Group University. Lynn works effectively across all levels and types of organisations from national, regional to local, including the National Health Service (NHS), and with all levels of stakeholders from Directors to service users. She particularly enjoys partnership working, and strongly believes in the voice of service users.

Lynn’s superpower is her ability to build strong relationships and trust. She brings a clarity and focus to complex problem solving with the ability to effectively define the strategic vision and understand the operational detail. She has strong critical thinking and analytical skills. Lynn’s energy comes from working with people. She is known for delivering to requirements.

A key example of collaboration, critical thinking and delivery was during COVID. She delivered successful programme management, working to the Chief Operating Officer and with the Professional Services leadership team at the University of Southampton. In three months, the programme effectively delivered a COVID-secure return to campus for 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from September 2020 all whilst working from home, and within a new organisation.

Lynn leads with energy and enthusiasm. She brings collaboration, is dynamic, quick-thinking and very adaptable. She is confident presenting to one person, a team or full conference. She delivers training in a broad range of business and management topics, communications and relationship building and career transition. Lynn is also an Associate Tutor for Level 7 Senior Leader Apprentices.

Lynn has always prioritised professional learning and development. She completed the Hampshire County Council (HCC) Future Leaders programme. She mentored CIPFA students at HCC. She is a qualified Personal Performance Life Coach, DISC personality profiling accredited, and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Professional Speaking Association.

Lynn set up her own coaching, training and speaking business Dynamic Finance Limited in 2022. Since May 2023 she has supported 616 Armed Forces service leavers to move forward with more confidence in their resettlement journey facilitating 26 three-day Career Transition Workshops and 205 one-to-one career consultations. Lynn is a proud signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant.

Lynn delivers powerful professional speaking in self-leadership, personal development and wellbeing areas. Her style is practical, interactive and engaging with repeatedly excellent audience feedback. Topics include active listening to build trust, personal resilience and the art of self-care and ‘What about me? The human side of change’ and DISC relationship building and communications.

Lynn’s testimonials and feedback demonstrate that she builds confidence, and is a supportive, empathic, calm, motivational, curious, and inspirational coach, trainer and professional speaker.