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About Dudley Lynch's
Writing, HRD and Public Affairs
Consulting Achievements
Mr. Lynch has devoted much of the past two decades
to identifying and analyzing emerging strategic leadership needs
and influences and creating appropriate training and other experiential
activities, models, materials, techniques and technologies to prepare
management participants and candidates and other important stakeholders
to produce in a rapidly changing marketplace . . . Among the highlights:
• for the past 20-plus years has been an "intellectual
entrepreneur" as president of Brain Technologies Corporation
. . .
• trained more than 500 leadership, training
and other HRD professionals in 21 countries in his techniques
for helping individuals and organizations be all they can be .
. .
• creator or co-creator of six cutting-edge
self- and group-assessment Human Resource instruments now available
in six languages . . .
• lead author of one of Europe’s best-selling
business books of the 90’s . . .
• frequent presenter on the international business
lecture tour on five continents . . .
• published and wrote internationally circulated
newsletter on personal and corporate creativity and innovation
. . .
• has created numerous public relations/public
affairs strategy plans and documents for Fortune 1000 companies
in partnership with major Dallas public relations firms . . .
• written 14 books and hundreds of magazine
articles, including cover articles in Business Week and by-lined
articles in Fortune, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times,
The Economist and more than 225 other periodicals on six continents.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Created six innovative "leadership" models
of individual and team differentiation, growth and change based
on brain function and psychological studies, values/belief research,
conflict resolution studies, general systems theories and speech
acts studies.
• Developed and personally sold approximately
six million dollars’ worth of diagnostic and learning materials
and consulting based on these models.
• Recruited and trained master associates
of these models and products in eight countries and supervised
their translation into six languages.
• Trained hundreds of professionals from 21
countries and in management, education, training and development
and other fields in 3-day certification events.
• Personally conducted training with these
models and products at such companies as IBM, General Motors,
AT&T, Western Electric, J.C. Penney Co., Oracle, Hewlett-Packard,
ARCO Oil and Gas, Shell Chemical Company, Amoco Oil Co. and many
others.
• Wrote five books based on these models and
similar kinds of inquiry. Best known work is Strategy of the Dolphin®:
Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, a Literary Guild alternate selection,
translated and published in seven languages.
• Featured presenter at such prestigious conferences
as IBM’s futuristic Horizons week, France’s First World
Symposium on Business Achievement, the Australian Staff Management
College’s Multinational CEO Executive Fortnight, South Africa’s
Sun City executive conference, Zürich’s Mind Management
Conference and the AMANA International Business Symposium in São
Paulo and many other U.S. and overseas venues.
• Published, edited and wrote approximately
100 issues of a monthly newsletter, Brain & Strategy®,
on these models and other creativity, innovation and change topics.
Developed public relations/public affairs/marketing
communications strategies and created media, marketing and promotional
materials and executive speeches at two major Texas corporate
public relations firms, a petroleum industry trade association
and one of the nation’s nuclear research laboratories.
• Edited monthly magazine for the Los Alamos
National Laboratory;
heavy science writing and coverage of elite scientific workforce,
governmental budgetary affairs and lifestyle issues in one of
the country’s most unusual cities.
• Served as outside corporate public relations
counsel to the CEO of the nation’s largest jewelry store
chain.
• Researched and wrote a history of the modern
Texas petroleum industry used for years as a staple resource document
on the industry in Texas school libraries.
Participated numerous times in projects similar
to these:
• Developed multi-faceted media plan and accompanying
collaterals, including web site content, and played key role in
media training for senior management in support of a well-known
American company's effort to defend itself against accusations
made in a major 1999 motion picture.
• Developed media strategy and wrote media
kit and employee notification materials for world's 4th largest
oil company regarding the move of the firm's American subsidiary
from Dallas to Houston.
• Developed strategic crisis communications
plan for one of the country’s most prestigious luxury retail
mall companies and helped design and conduct executive media training.
• Developed comprehensive public relations
and marketing communications plan and wrote speeches for the CEO
of a major statewide Texas savings and loan.
• Developed crisis communication plan and participated
in New York City media training for CEO of major U.S. airline.
• Developed and personified a new business
and marketing approach for independent magazine writers and free-lancer/stringers
in the 1970s that was featured as a cover article in Writer’s
Digest.
• Wrote and sold more than 900 free-lance newspaper
and magazine articles.
• Covered Dallas-Fort Worth for Business Week,
northern Texas for Newsweek, the Southwestern U.S. for The Christian
Science Monitor and the western U.S. for The Economist as an independent
correspondent, producing two cover articles for Business Week
and receiving by-lines in both Business Week and Newsweek and
in the other 225 periodicals that commissioned and purchased work.
• Wrote three non-fiction books published by
major publishers, including a young adult biography of Lyndon
B. Johnson (The President from Texas, Harper & Row), plus
a ghosted biography of noted real estate developer Trammell Crow.
• Was the only journalist ever to receive an
extensive recorded interview with the notorious Texas political
boss, George B. Parr; this interview resulted in Mr. Lynch’s
book, The Duke of Duval.
BRAIN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Founder, President and CEO for publishing, training,
marketing and consulting company in fields of leadership development,
corporate and individual change and development for the past 20-plus
years
Previous assignments
• Account executive, Hill & Knowlton Public
Relations
• Sunday magazine feature writer for The Dallas
Morning News and the Arizona Republic (Phoenix) metro dailies.
• Editor, The Christian Chronicle, leading
newsweekly for the Churches of Christ; regular contributor to
Christianity Today and other religion journals
• Public relations officer, Texas Mid-Continent
Oil and Gas Assn.
• Public affairs officer, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
• City editor, Hereford (Tex.) Brand
• Reporter, Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal
• Copy editor, Portales (N.M.) News-Tribune
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Eastern New Mexico University,
1963; double major in mass communications and religion, cum laude
honors. Recipient of the Kennecott Copper Corporation's Outstanding
Student of the Year Scholarship; has since been named Outstanding
Alumnus
Master of Arts, The University of Texas at
Austin, 1967; mass communications major, history minor; Phi Kappa
Phi and Kappa Tau Alpha honor societies; Borden Milk Fellowship
(resulting in published monograph, The Hereford Brand: Belle of
the Prairie Press)
Doctor of Humane Letters, Newport University’s
St. Gallen, Switzerland campus, 1994; honorary degree acknowledging
life work and contributions in the field of leadership development,
human and business development and change
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