Lynne C. Joyce

Lynne is the owner of Leadership First Company. Believing that fulfillment has a direct relationship to the quest for betterment, her work with organizations involves creating, administering and facilitating leadership development processes for all people in leadership positions. As coach and facilitator, Lynne challenges participants to become visionary as they deal with critical issues that lead to personal development and organizational impact. A few of Lynne’s corporate clients include Nationwide Insurance, Cardinal Health, Colgate Palmolive, Exel (Logistics), Solidstate Controls and Microsoft Business Solutions.

Working as a consultant and facilitator for 15 years, Lynne has helped people within companies, non-profit organizations and colleges develop strategic visions, mission statements, core values and learning plans for professional development. She works with people to define and embrace a personal and professional life of continuous learning.

In 1996, Lynne found herself in a new role: the spouse of a college president. Since day one, Lynne began weaving her life’s work of helping people experience fulfillment into her everyday life on campus. She often was asked to speak to or consult with various organizations on campus about leadership and served as adjunct professor for such courses as “Freshman Seminar” and “Adventures in Leadership.” She worked with a team to create a customer-service initiative entitled P.R.I.D.E. at Union College which was adopted campus-wide. She was a facilitator for Union College Leadership Education and Development (UCLEAD) and served as a coordinator for the Corbin and Columbia District Servant Leadership Academy for the Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Lynne is a native of North Carolina. She received a B.S. degree in education from Appalachian State University and a master’s degree in human resource development from Vanderbilt University.

For fun, fitness and continuous learning, Lynne enjoys running, swimming, mountain biking and white-water canoeing. She occasionally competes in sprint triathlons, mountain bike races and adventure races and has completed three marathons.

Lynne enjoys gourmet cooking and has her own cooking show — "Ripon Cooking 101: Cookin' with Flair" — broadcast on the Ripon public access channel 19.

David and Lynne Joyce have one daughter, Anna Bracco, who lives in Chicago with her husband, Nicolas.