Lynn Montei

For 23 years, Lynn Montei has been helping organizations and individuals to act boldly, creatively and strategically -- congruent with their expressed purpose, values and aspirations. 

Lynn is an astute and dedicated professional and leader whose talent, mentoring style, multi-sector experience, and energy dynamically support the client in discovering and unleashing  potential.  This close partnership with the client yields a deep, rich and effective process and outcome.

Her versatility is evident in her commitment to serving clients in all sectors, including business, government, nonprofit, education and religious/spiritual entities.  The efforts range from startups, expansions and restructures to closures, involving international dispersed teams to smaller local entities. 

Lynn provides theoretical and technical know-how, designing learning and facilitation experiences that effectively and efficiently attend to the client's desired outcome.  She is expert at process design, facilitation and synthesis, guiding elegant and comprehensive processes to yield cogent and useful deliverables.  Key to her success is her ability to cultivate clarity and congruence among process participants, inspiring trust and ownership across the system.

Lynn brings clarity and insight to the consulting and coaching relationship, facilitating increased awareness and capability to act.  The client's capability comes not from having been given answers, but from a new ability to access what is available, but not obvious, within their system.  Lynn creates the conditions to clear away that which conceals the potent wisdom and knowledge present and emerging in every situation.

Lynn is also known for her collaboration with Peter Block, Charlotte Roberts, Dick Axelrod and Lou Ann Daly as Dean of The School for Leadership and Change, a school for teams leading change.  Lynn's prior experience includes 17 years as executive director of a nonprofit council of local governments in suburban Chicago, where she undertook pioneering work in public policy and advocacy, intergovernmental relations, transportation, utility regulation, finance reform, diversity awareness and meaningful dialogue.  Her volunteer work on local, statewide and international boards and committees is a central feature of her life and work.  She resides with her family in Elmhurst, Illinois.