Lynn Leahy

Lynn Leahy is an experienced company Director who has worked with teams and individuals at all levels across four continents for more than twenty-five years. Lynn’s work has been recognised by nine awards – including (several times) an “Outperformer” for Vistage international. In 2012, Lynn received the award of “Overseas Speaker of the Year” from The Executive Connection (TEC) in Australia. Lynn has been a key speaker at the HR Summit in Singapore speaking initially on Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and then invited to return on Multi-generational Leadership. 

Alongside significant business experience, Lynn is a trained counsellor and an accredited mediator, who draws on a range of psychotherapeutic approaches in her work. She has an exceptional track record of helping companies effectively face change. Examples include leading a major Managing Change program for Unilever, delivered to over 1,600 delegates in 19 countries. She also designed and helped implement a mentoring scheme for a major UK utilities company that due to its success became the subject of an article in Strategic HR Review.

Key Achievements

International Speaker – Lynn Leahy has won 8 awards. The latest in 2017 was with Vistage International as an “outperformer” for her work with their network of more than 1,000 CEO’s across the UK. In 2016 she was given a special award by Vistage for going “Above and Beyond” as a speaker.  In 2014 she was voted “International Speaker of the Year” by The Executive Connection in Australia for her work with their network of more than 1,500 CEO’s across Australia.  In April 2013 Lynn was invited to speak at the HR Summit in Singapore on Emotionally Intelligent Leadership to an audience of 700+ and invited to return in 2015 to speak on Multi-Generational Leadership.

Managing Change – Lynn Leahy is experienced in implementing and managing change whilst motivating teams to develop new ways of working, both in her own team whilst a Director of Oakridge and in external businesses. For example Lynn was the project leader for a major Managing Change initiative for Unilever which was delivered to over 1,600 delegates in 19 countries.

Business Development – Lynn Leahy significantly contributed to the growth of Oakridge – the company she co-founded.  Turnover grew from zero to over a million (£) and this was achieved simply by organic growth (there with no external investment).

Customer Interface –  Exceptional track record of achieving customer satisfaction and loyalty. Oakridge when under Lynn’s joint leadership received 18 “excellent” and 5 “world class” ratings when bench-marked against other UK training providers by an independently led customer survey.