Training by Dr. Lynn K. Jones

“Thank you so much for facilitating such a wonderful staff retreat on positivity.  Myself and the staff really enjoyed every minute of it. I’m receiving such good feedback…POSITIVITY is the new word!!! Thank you :)” – Sharmelle Parker, Program Director, PROTOTYPES, www.prototypes.org

“Dr. Jones presented a workshop at the 4C/SD conference on April 23, 2010 on the topic of developing a culture of positivity to improve productivity, personal satisfaction and reduce turnover in response to stress in the workplace. This was a timely topic, and the conference participants benefitted from the information provided by Dr. Jones. I look forward to engaging in more training with her on this topic in the future.”  Top qualities: Great Results , Expert , Good Value  ~Leslie Carr, Director of Professional Development at College of the Canyons www.canyons.edu

“I had the pleasure of taking a course with Lynn Jones when I was in graduate school at Antioch University.  Lynn’s educational style was distinct, powerful and what I gained from being her student will last my professional career.   She is a natural born leader. There is a saying that “those who cannot do teach” Lynn PROVES THIS WRONG. She walks the talk, brings amazing professional perspective to her work and practices what she preaches. A lot of educators teach but never practice, I loved learning from Lynn because she really knew her profession.  I have tremendous respect for Lynn Jones. Like Lynn, I am an educator, committed to my profession and have embraced the social web to share my expertise. I love having her as a colleague.  She is a wonderful wealth of information and anyone fortunate enough to have her as a coach or instructor will get their money’s worth and more!” — Lorrie Thomas, CEO Lorrie Thomas Web Marketing, www.lorriethomas.com

“What I liked the best positivity retreat was watching my co-workers be engaged in something that seemed to be interesting to them and that seemed to inspire some as well. I also loved the cactus analogy and the beautiful pics, too! The next couple of days at work I have overheard several co-workers saying things like ‘proof positive’ ‘think positive’, etc! And, I noticed several of us trying to do the positive things we said we were going to come back to work and try, like smiling more and greeting one another. So, I think it was a success!! Stephanie Armbruster, www.prototypes.org

“Lynn K. Jones embod­ies all the qual­i­ties you could pos­si­bly want in a pro­fes­sional coach: thought­ful, good lis­tener, clear com­mu­ni­ca­tor. Her use of the appre­cia­tive inquiry approach keeps the focus squarely on find­ing your best self, your strengths, tal­ents and pas­sions. I’ve watched her inspire peo­ple in small and large groups and seen the impact she has in one-on-one coach­ing. She will help you get your MOJO.” – Deb­o­rah Gal­lant, Owner of Bold Busi­ness Works www.boldbusinessworks.com

As an instruc­tor, Lynn helps oth­ers to become bet­ter lead­ers. She has a unique abil­ity to do this in such an authen­tic way — allow­ing her stu­dents to be more open to change and to view them­selves dif­fer­ently than they had before. I highly rec­om­mend Lynn.” – Cas­san­dra Loch, Pres­i­dent & Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, PROTOTYPES, Cen­ters for Inno­va­tion in Health, Men­tal Health and Social Services, www.prototypes.org

“When I first joined this class, I was in burned out and feel­ing that we were work­ing very hard but los­ing ground. By the time I grad­u­ated, we were renewed, focused and excited about our work. We increased our bot­tom line by $10,000 in two months. I truly believe that this class saved my career!!”  ~Brenda Davi­son, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor

“Dur­ing this course, Lynn pre­sented cre­ative and dynamic ideas that were new to me. She also used what I term “cre­ative pos­i­tivism” to inspire us to see that our goals can be achieved.   I learned how to apply my strengths to develop a new pro­gram for my agency.   I now feel more con­fi­dent in my abil­i­ties to begin new projects and I feel val­i­da­tion that I am on a good path.  I believe that my agency has ben­e­fited from my involve­ment in this course because I now bring more tools to bear on the work that we engage in.”  ~David Deutsch, Lutheran Social Ser­vices of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia

“One of the best courses in the Mas­ter of Orga­ni­za­tional Man­age­ment Pro­gram was taught by Lynn, due largely to her teach­ing style, expe­ri­ence, and energy.  I appre­ci­ated hear­ing her point of view and learned from her expe­ri­ence in the non-profit world.” — Rebecca Ander­son, Direc­tor of Devel­op­ment, Schol­ar­ship Foun­da­tion of Santa Barbara www.sbscholarship.org

“Dr. Jones taught me to take large amounts of infor­ma­tion and break them down into digestible bits of knowl­edge that have stuck with me.  I am now able to look at orga­ni­za­tions as a whole and see how they func­tion.  I am also able to develop viable strate­gies and apply them to numer­ous busi­ness deci­sions. Dr. Jones showed me a new per­spec­tive on orga­ni­za­tions and helped give me the con­fi­dence to speak up and give my opin­ions.” – Kaili Haw­ley, Account Manager, Web Marketing Therapy www.webmarketingtherapy.com

“Dr. Lynn is a great teacher, able to con­vey com­pli­cated sub­jects in a sim­ple man­ner while giv­ing in-depth and real world advice. She requires a lot of work and con­cen­tra­tion in her classes, but keeps it upbeat and very rel­e­vant. I feel that she has pre­pared me quite well for the busi­ness and non-profit sec­tor with supe­rior edu­ca­tion, ded­i­ca­tion, and on-going com­mu­ni­ca­tion with her pupils.” — Shersy Ben­son, COO, Self Enquiry Life Fellowship, www.swamahiman.org

“Dr. Jones was one of my most respected teach­ers at Anti­och Uni­ver­sity Santa Bar­bara when I obtained my Master’s in Org. Mgmt. Her excel­lent teach­ing style spurred mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sion and encour­aged myself and other stu­dents to actively par­tic­i­pate and dig deeper into the sub­ject mat­ter cre­at­ing a truly sat­is­fy­ing edu­ca­tional expe­ri­ence. She obvi­ously knew her sub­ject mat­ter well and made us feel that it was her mis­sion for us to suc­cess­fully com­plete her class.” – Mark Soler, Engineer, http://linkd.in/a9xOKW

“I have changed as a pro­fes­sional by learn­ing to max­i­mize my strengths. The tools Lynn taught allow room for per­sonal growth that seems to have a rip­ple effect. Our orga­ni­za­tion has ben­e­fited from par­tic­i­pa­tion by com­ing closer together as a team and get­ting a reach­able goal that we plan on car­ry­ing on and hope­fully con­tin­u­ing though out the years. The sup­port and moti­va­tion pro­vided by Lynn was great.”  ~Angela Tinoco, VCHC-Casa Latina