Lynne Franks

Author, Entrepreneur and PR Guru Lynne Franks, worked in her father's butcher shop at the age of twelve, left school at sixteen, worked as a young journalist on Petticoat, the UK's first weekly young women's magazine when she was eighteen and started her own public relations firm from her kitchen table at the age of twenty-one.

One of the best-known public relations consultants in the world, Lynne is also a highly reputed newspaper columnist, author and authority on women in business, sustainability and consumer lifestyles. In the years since she began building her PR agency, she has advised and guided multinational and non-profit organisations around the globe.

Lynne also created the major U.K. event What Women Want in 95 to draw attention to the changing position of women in society. Prior to attending the Beijing women's conference, she chaired the UK's first women's radio station and became a spokesperson on women's issues, life-work balance and socially responsible business practices.

She has written several books including The SEED Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business published in 2000 throughout the English speaking world, Germany, Japan and China. SEED, an acronym for Sustainable Enterprise and Empowerment Dynamics, is also a global network aimed at training and empowering women.

Lynne has recently completed her new book, GROW, The Modern Woman's Handbook to be published in 2004, and speaks and delivers workshops on social entrepreneurship, women in business and consumer trends.

"We had an overwhelming favourable response for the seminar Franks conducted . . . Due to popular demand, we have invited her to be our inaugural Speaker . . . her success is legendary and it stems from her vision to be one step ahead of the public . . . Don't miss this opportunity to listen to this extraordinary woman!"
Evening Standard Business seminars, UK

"Thank you for your keynote address at the Retail Week - BRC Conference . . . The conference was the most successful held so far and your contribution was undoubtely an important reason for that success."
Ian McGarrigle, Publisher, Retail Week, UK

"Lynne Franks is one of the leading European futurists, remarkably accurate in her forecasts about consumer and social trends . . . An authority on communication and a leading lifestyle expert, with interests in the changing role of women and many other issues, she is a stimulating guest speaker."
Network Journal, UK

"At the forefront of major lifestyle shifts, (Franks) understands the new wave of consciousness sweeping the planet - a wave that is not only affecting relationships between men and women, business and society but which is, importantly, bringing ethical and spiritual values into the workplace"
Citizen Business Awards, UK