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Lynn Allen has extensive experience in senior management roles in universities, the public and private sectors. This includes 12 years as a State Government CEO. She has led major projects that included complex consultation with Local and State governments on technology, governance, legislative and service changes. There were many successful outcomes, several being recognized with awards such as being a finalist in the Premier’s Awards and winning Gold Awards in National IT Productivity Awards. Lynn developed a reputation for the innovative use of technology, including bringing public access to the internet across Western Australia, a national first.
From 1983 to 2001 she was a member of whole of government information policy bodies, including the Science, Industry and Technology Council in the 1980s that reported to the then Deputy Premier, Hon. Mal Bryce. She was a member of the Council of Curtin University of Technology for 9 years, including two as Pro-Chancellor.
Since leaving the public sector, Lynn has worked in executive education. She has developed, taught and used a planning framework designed to deal with situations where there are multiple, diverse perspectives on potential futures. Lynn specialises in facilitating learning about situations using systems thinking, futures methods and dialogue to create holistic approaches to planning and problem solving. She is an expert in the Soft Systems Methodology and has used this in many complex projects as well as developing and delivering a course for Masters level students. She is currently assisting a major government department and a community sector organisation in their future directions setting.
Lynn has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. She has been State and National President of the peak body for Australian Librarians and Information Professionals. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Curtin University for her contribution to the information and university sectors. In 2010 she was awarded a National Fellow from the Institute of Public Administration Australia for services to policy and public administration.
Her previous coaching experience includes State and local government sectors as well as the community sector at executive level as well as supervision of a PhD student that continues as a mentoring/coaching relationship.
Coaching was included as part of the executive education program on systems thinking and planning that Lynn and a colleague developed.
Having taught this emergent futures framework, Lynn conducted an evaluation of participants’ experiences, published the results and improved the program as a result. The evaluation included three separate interviews with participants where further coaching on the application of their learning was discussed.
Lynn set up the Emergent Futures Group, formed from those who learned the framework and wanted continuing learning and support to implement that learning.
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