Lynn Woods Strang
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Lynn has over a decade of experience in a diverse range of industries, roles and organisation types. She is turning her efforts more and more toward the challenges of organisational leadership and cultural change management, most recently in the post-acquisition programme office of a major music label.
Prior to that she worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, and then in strategy & business development at LexisNexis, part of the FTSE100 media company Reed Elsevier. Lynn began her professional career with five years as a Trade Commissioner in Canada’s diplomatic service, engaged in a combination of policy analysis and trade promotion in a number of industries, and in cooperation with multiple other government agencies. This included three years in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where a large part of her work involved coaching businesses from both countries on how to understand their cultural differences and work across them effectively. She then ran the newly-established Brazil programme for the Canadian Education Centre, a non-profit resource centre and promotional organisation sponsored by Canadian academic and vocational institutions that encourages study in Canada among foreign students.
Lynn’s project experience ranges from traditional strategy development and planning to organisational structure and effectiveness. Examples of her work in the strategy area include validating and refining a multi-format retail strategy for a global athletic apparel company; reviewing the corporate and business unit strategies for a portfolio of branded and own-label food products; and developing a set of performance improvement recommendations for a national spirits manufacturer. Examples in the organisation area include managing part of a post-merger integration project for an Amsterdam-based global consumer products company; redefining the role of the corporate centre for a specialist utility company; and mapping and clarifying the decision roles and processes for the senior management team of a major financial services provider.
Lynn has also gained tactical experience in corporate strategy planning, acquisition screening and due diligence management, and post-merger integration planning and management. She played a central role in the annual strategy cycle of LexisNexis as well as in that company’s acquisition of a French software company in 2006.
Lynn has a 1st-class BA in Economics from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and an MBA with Distinction from London Business School.
