Rick Lynch
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Richard Lynch is a Seattle-based management consultant with a variety of clients in the United States, Canada, England and Russia. He is the President of Lynch Associates, a consulting firm whose mission is to help organizations create work environments which foster commitment and excitement and positive self-esteem. His consulting work involves projects such as:

• streamlining work flow,
• developing organizational values,
  
• developing mission and vision statements,
  
• strategic planning efforts,
  
• developing customer-responsive organizational systems,
  
• producing esteem-enhancing work climates,
  
• redesigning work, and
  
• assessing the motivational "health" of organizations.

Each year, Mr. Lynch speaks at approximately 150 workshops, conventions, and conferences in North America and Europe on topics related to personal growth and management effectiveness.

Before starting his own firm in 1977, Mr. Lynch worked for five years as a project director and senior trainer for three management consulting firms in New York and Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree from the University of Iowa.

Rick's experience in the field of volunteer management includes work as a volunteer coordinator and as the training director for the Washington State Office of Voluntary Action, where he set up a unique system of delivering management training to volunteer directors through a network of volunteer training organizers. He has served on the boards of directors of a number of non-profit organizations, including a volunteer center, a retired senior volunteer program, a United Way, and national and local literacy programs. He has been a featured speaker on volunteer management at national, international, and state conferences since 1979. He is currently serving as a consultant for "The Paradigm Project," a nationwide effort of the Points of Light Foundation to promote excellence in non-profit agencies' use of volunteers.

At various times during his career, Mr. Lynch has served as a reading teacher, a bass player in a blues band, and Chief of a volunteer fire department.

His email address is: RDSL@aol.com.

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Books by Rick Lynch
(Links go to the Energize Volunteer Management Online Bookstore)

• Volunteer Management: Mobilizing All the Resources of the Community
• Secrets of Leadership

In addition, he also authored Precision Management and Getting Out of Your Own Way, a monograph called "Developing Your Leadership Potential" and Lead.

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