Lynn Schuster, Partner

Executive Coach And Consultant

Lynn is an Executive Leadership and Organizational Coach/Consultant who most recently worked with several of IBM’s top 10% of leaders in their globally integrated enterprise. Prior to her 11 years with IBM, Lynn was Managing Director of a boutique consulting firm focused on executive coaching, executive and acquisition integration, leadership and strategy alignment and executive leadership development. Major clients were included in the Fortune 100 companies. She has more than 30 years experience working in a cross section of industries both domestic and international.

Commitment to achieving profitability, return on investment and improved quality of work life for clients is the cornerstone of every engagement. Her focus is on providing value for clients using an integrated team approach to develop and improve their capability to perform current responsibilities while accomplishing major transformational changes.

Demonstrated Strengths:

» Executive & trusted advisor
» Executive assessment and feedback
» Executive and acquisition integration
» Building high performing senior teams
» Leadership and strategy alignment
» Organizational growth and change

Selected Accomplishments

» Personal Coach and Trusted Advisor for more than 50 Senior Line Executives over 11 years with IBM & leading a boutique consulting firm for 10 years helping them to: strengthen leadership capabilities; realize their personal career goals; build and sustain high performing senior teams and optimize client value by integrating their business and leadership goals.

» Trusted Advisor for several years to General Manager of multi-billion dollar business helping to: accelerate integration of new leadership teams; operationalize strategy and create leadership development road maps for past and current business units.

» Co-developed 2010 Coaching Strategy for IBM to encompass over 60,000 executives.

» Creator of an executive integration/leadership alignment process to fast track executives and new teams reducing usual integration time and ensuring a markedly increased odds of retention of these executives and improve probability of alliance success.

» Designer and leader for program focused on newly hired and acquired executives with an overarching aim to: accelerate executive’s success by exponentially increasing their knowledge around the depth and breadth of a highly matrixed organization and providing an understanding of critical success factors for leading in a globally integrated enterprise.

» Mentor and Coach for Next Generation Leaders to accelerate leadership competency development and enable their success as future leaders.

» Workstream team leader for Global Cultural Adaptability Council to increase cultural intelligence and adaptability of IBM and to optimize value created for Global Assignees and the broader IBM enterprise.

» Merger and Acquisition Integration Practice Leader for two years focusing on 12 acquisitions and 22 outsourcing deals. The largest acquisition was a merger of more than 30,000 employees.

Ms. Schuster earned a B.A. in Psychology from Manhattanville College and did graduate studies at Manhattanville and NYU. Additionally, Lynn received certifications in; Merger and Acquisition Integration/ Darden School of Business; Strategic Leadership Forum Education/ Harvard Business School; LSI, Managerial Styles, Climate, Organization Improvement Program and Managing for Motivation and Performance Improvement from Hay Group Consulting; Hogan Personality Inventory Certification; LIFO and DISC certification. IBM has certified Lynn in their assessment and feedback processes around Leadership Competencies, Derailment Factors, Business leadership Surveys and Behavioral Event Interviewing mapped to specific executive job profiles.

Lynn Schuster can be reached at (203) 247-6244 and at Lynn.Schuster@thesigmagroupllc.com