President of The Growth Company, Inc., a management consulting, training, human resources and organizational strategy firm, Lynne Curry brings her clients a track record in management and human resources consulting; Board, manager and employee training, and organizational strategy consulting.
Curry has provided more than 55,000 consulting projects to more than 3,700 organizations in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Connecticut, Arizona, Washington D.C., Illinois, New York, Arizona, Texas, Japan, Korea, China, Guam and England.
Curry's clients include a diverse variety of private sector companies (oil & gas; construction; finance; medical & dental; real estate; retail & hospitality); professional services firms (legal, engineering, architectural, accounting & other service firms); utilities; Alaska Native corporations; governmental organizations (federal, state, municipal & tribal) and non-profit corporations and agencies.
In addition to her doctorate, Curry has a Senior Professional in Human Services certificate.
The following organizes Curry's background in specific areas.
Writing
Curry has authored four books, Managing Equally & Legally (McFarland & Company, 1990); Solutions; Won By One and A Supervisor's Desk Manual on Performance Appraisal.
Curry's "Dear Abby of the Workplace" business column has been published since 1983 in the Alaska Dispatch News (formerly the Anchorage Daily News) and since 1999 in the Tri-city Herald (Washington).
The Society for Human Resource Management, the largest professional organization for human resource professionals published two of Curry's articles in 2014, sending one to a subscription list of 400,000.
Curry's articles have been featured in more than 200 publications including Entrepreneur, Yahoo!News and CBS MoneyWatch, and Supervision. Curry is a weekly columnist for HRC Suite, with a subscription base of 200,000.
Curry founded www.workplacecoachblog.com which averages 3223 hits and 291 visits daily.
Training and facilitation
Curry makes more than 100 presentations to 300 companies and organizations annually. These presentations involve audiences of up to 400 individuals from companies and organizations such as British Petroleum, State Farm Insurance, Conoco Phillips, and the U.S. Army.
Curry provides dynamic, professional, results-oriented training sessions in more than 200 areas including: leadership; management and supervision; Board of Directors' work; training, presentations, facilitation and mediation; coaching; marketing, sales and customer service; personal and professional development; memory; time and stress management; team-building; diversity; GenX/Y; media; ethics; communications, conflict management and negotiation; motivation and change management. Curry has been awarded the Trainer of the Year award multiple times by the Anchorage chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.
Human resources
Curry and her team provide HR On-call (a la carte HR) services. These include HR trouble-shooting; 360 reviews; employee surveys; recruitment (hiring & reference checking); disciplinary and termination assistance; performance review & coaching assistance; legal aspects of management assistance and leadership development.
Legal and investigative work
Dr. Curry has testified at trial and served as an expert witness in legal cases involving sexual harassment, downsizing, management response, age and sex discrimination, wrongful discharge, overtime, grievance channels and many more issues.
Dr. Curry regularly provides neutral third party investigative services in the areas of sexual harassment, fraud, union/management relations, and other workplace issues. She has completed several hundred investigations.
Alaska's Governor appointed Curry to the Board of Alaska's Labor Relations Agency where she serves as Vice Chair.
Executive and professional development coaching
Curry coaches CEOs, COOs, managers, supervisors, professionals, employees and individuals in a wide variety of industries.
Here’s why I write…and why I hope you read me.
I started writing at age 3. Like many, I grew up in a “messy” family and didn’t have anyone I could talk to, not about “those” things. Once I found a crayon and paper, however, something happened. The thoughts I couldn’t voice came out, first in pictures and then in words. Each day when I re-read what I’d written the day before, the words on paper took life and allowed me to breathe more freely – because it was out there. Truth, as I knew it.
I write for two reasons. First, to make sense of things. Even when I didn’t fully understand what I was feeling, if I wrote and put it outside myself on paper, and then reread it next day, I saw it with fresh eyes. Writing about what I did or didn’t or should have done taught me more than I would have learned by silently voicing thoughts inside my own head.
Second, I write to inspire positive change in myself and the world. That’s what happens when I put pen to paper or start up the computer and send a tweet or an article. You read what I’d written, and gain – perhaps an insight, an emotional connection or the feeling that someone else understands. Every week I get emails from you and others who’ve read one of my books, posts and weekly newspaper columns on how to handle career and workplace challenges and say, “I tried what you suggested, and it worked” or “you made step back and realize I’d given my power away. I’m taking it back.” Your life changes, and because you matter, you then change the lives of those around you.
That’s why I write and why I hope you write as well. You have a voice, unique, special and transformative. I’d like to read what you write. Together we can change the world.
