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Amy Lynch

Amy Lynch


Make Business Sense of Generation Y

Customized Keynotes and Workshops

Keynote/General Session: 45 - 85 minutes

Workshops: 1.5 hours - Half day.

Generation Y and You — Conversations that Work

Having trouble getting through to the 20-somethings on your team? Wish they’d develop a stronger work ethic, maybe one like yours? Here’s how to talk so that young professionals listen.

Get ROI on Generation Y

Make way for flip flops among the wingtips, business pumps and Dockers.

Is turnover among your youngest employees costing you too much? Could your business grow if you retained more Millennials? This presentation explores proven methods of attracting, managing and retaining top 20-something talent.

Generations: Finding Common Ground, or, "At least we all agree about the Beatles."

Work in teams or work alone? "Tell me now" or save it for the review? Free agent or here to stay? The answers lie in generational differences. Explore each generation’s experience, and learn communication techniques that work. You'll leave this session with fresh ideas for encouraging collaboration and preventing conflict.

Negotiate From Strength

Maximize the impact of your individual and generational negotiation style.
Free agent or inside an organization, Baby Boomer, Generation Y or Generation X - no matter which, negotiation is fundamental to your success in the new millennium. During this presentation, each audience member discovers the individual Conversational Strength — Direction, Drive, Devotion or Depth —   he or she brings to negotiations, and explores the negotiation preferences of his or her generation.  As Amy shares stories and techniques, listeners recognize the unconscious messages they send, triggers that destroy focus when stakes are high and essential back-to-Strength behaviors that work.

About Amy Lynch

For more than a decade, author and entrepreneur Amy Lynch has studied Generation Y and the era that shaped them. Today, as these 20-somethings enter the workplace, she helps organizations attract, engage and retain young professionals.

She is Generation Y columnist for Biz Journals, syndicated to business newspapers in more than 40 markets; and her columns on strategic diversity management appear online in HR Hero. Her ideas have been featured in USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and NBC Nightly News, among others. When the Flip Flop Fits, her system for Making Business Sense of Generation Y, is forthcoming in spring of 2008.

Selected Achievements
Launched national newsletter about adolescents. Sold her publishing firm to Fortune 500 company. Created PR campaigns that garnered national coverage, and marketing efforts that far exceeded standard response rates.  

Published national newsletter about transition. Raised capital, negotiated distribution with nation’s largest book distributor.

Guided industry-oriented magazine through transition to city’s lifestyles magazine during period of major regional growth, increasing circulation four-fold. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->

Boards of Directors:   Ten Thousand Villages; Tennessee Writers Alliance; Women’s Social Policy and Research Center, Vanderbilt.

Affiliations: National Speakers' Association, SHRM, CABLE, The HR Edge, LifeMoxie!, The Estuary School of Healing Arts, Nashville Women's Breakfast Club, Greater Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce,Association of Career Professionals, ASTD

Awards: Hambidge Center, Hedgebrook Foundation, Ragdale Foundation. Finalist, Utne Alternative Media Awards. Winner, Parents Media Awards, 2001 and 2003.

Testimonials

"The after dinner speech you delivered to EWI (Executive Women International) was perfect. I wouldn't change a thing!"
Carolyn Ermey, Suntrust Bank

"The workshop was awesome! It really opened my mind to things I was naive about, and you made it FUN!”
Gary Doney, CEO, ADIEUS Financial

"I have attended several Gen Y information sessions, and Amy's was great. Entertaining and informative. I've made use of her handouts and ideas in my classes which are more and more populated with Ys."
CE instructor, attendee at Canadian Payroll Association conference, June 2007

"Working with Amy is a joy. She is a real pro who makes everything seamless.  She is organized, innovative and received great audience feedback.”
Marissa Banchea, Education Director, CNM

"The attendees loved your message. I heard Gen-Y discussions throughout the entire conference."
Sherrie Thuot, Manager of Educational Products, SHRM

"Amy sheds light on the generation we know least about.  She fills in the missing pieces of the generational puzzle.”
Laura Pursewell, Executive Leadership for Human Resources

"Your presentation helped me crystalize how to approach critical conversations with people on our staff, addressing behaviors while nurturing the relationships as we figure out how to work together to meet our goals."
Martha Stinson, Trace Ventures

"I can’t believe how much I learned from your presentation. I put it to use the very next day.”
Misa Culley, Vanderbilt University

"We were delighted with how you customized your presentation to our Coordinators. You changed the way people in the audience thought about Gen Y, and gave them ideas for marketing to and engaging the 20-somethings in their programs."
Brittany Brewer, Organizational Programs Director, Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM)

"Your keynote presentation was a hit with our audience."
Diane Taylor, Holmes Corporation

"Thanks to you, I’m now able to relax, take a break and put a decision on hold. That’s consistent with my negotiation Strength (Depth), and makes the process much less stressful for me.”
Sara Perez, Alive Hospice

"I reviewed my life as you talked and determined to approach critical conversations differently.”
Winnie Forrester, Wachovia Securities

"Several times last week I used what I had learned in your seminar. During one negotiation, I stated my price and then used silence. It worked! In another incident, a client was angry with me over a deadline. I gave her the facts and went into action to solve her problem. The next day we came to an agreement about handling problems in the future. Your ideas are powerful, both professionally and personally."
Stephanie M Cockerl, NextSTEPH

"Opening 20 shows a year requires complicated and sensitive negotiations. There are days when I've seen no solution in sight. Your ideas help me navigate choppy waters. It’s such a relief to have these new tools.”
Dorothy Marcic, author and playwright, Respect

"Presenters  never get all 5's -- especially on a tough topic like negotiation. But you did! They loved you. I look forward to working with you more."
Ann Hardy, President, LifeMoxie!

“Thank you for bringing us this incredible program. We'll have you back. We were yearning for more."
Amy Nedoss, American Girl Place, Chicago

"This is a difficult topic, yet you really connected. You’ve changed my idea of what a speaker can do to make a difference!"
Doug Pasto-Crosby, M.D., Baptist Hospital, Nashville

"Amy is a lively, informative guide to communicating when it matters most.”
Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, Shelter of Each Other, and Middle of Everywhere.

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