Jo Flynn is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Leadership State.
Jo is a powerful and dynamic speaker, a seasoned corporate facilitator, executive coach and successful business leader. Her real gift is the depth of human experience that she brings, helping diverse people enhance and deepen their unique, authentic voice. Even in a short space of time, Jo has an unnerving capacity to nail a single key leverage point that will unlock the next step in a persons’ evolutionary journey.
“In the last 12 years I’ve birthed 3 businesses and 2 children. The mine-field inherent in achieving work-life balance is very familiar terrain. As a business woman I’m proud of the initiatives I’ve launched. I have authored and led culture change programs at senior levels of management in global organisations. My corporate career has challenged my capacity to think critically, to articulate my viewpoints and vision, and required me to find my spine… to stand for change in the face of enormous resistance and negativity. As a mother I’ve experienced how satisfying it is to shape self-authoring, powerful beings who navigate complex transitions with care and sensitivity. The process is not dissimilar to shaping Leaders. The Leadership Choice is my finest contribution to my community. I have learnt so much from extraordinary teachers over the past 20 years and it’s time to give back in a form that is current and personal. Ultimately I want to connect with others who agree that being useful in the world, exhibiting authentic power and softening into care and compassion is a thoroughly intoxicating way to live.”
Background and Experience
University of Technology, Sydney - Graduate Certificate in Adult Education in Training
University of Sydney - Studies toward Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Philosophy and Women’s Studies
Faculty Coach at The Leadership Circle Asia Pacific
Executive Associate at Full Circle Group Global Awarded Lifetime Accreditation in Human Synergistics Profiling, LSI and OCI instruments
Certificate Conflict Resolutions Skills – Conflict Resolution Network
Certificate of Teachership - Zoeros Integral Learning (Transformational teaching - Didactic and experiential. Developmental psychology, process-oriented psychology, meditation, emotional intelligence, guided visualisation, leadership skills and teamwork)
Certificate of Training in Somatics (support of normative bodily pulsation in self regulation – application and implication)
Career Achievements
Program design and facilitation of Leadership Development Programs at Senior Management level (Ernst and Young Australia and Vodafone Aus & N.Z.) ongoing for 13 years, with thousands of executive graduates.
End-to-end Culture change program for global IT company over 18 month period. Charter included program design, facilitation regionally for 1200 delegates, in parallel with leadership diagnostics and intense personal coaching for top team of 25.
Design and presentation of hundreds of personal development workshops over a 20 year period delivered to over 5,000 clients. Modules include; Mindfulness, Buddhist Gratitude Strategies, Aikido for Assertiveness, Leading from the Feminine, Anxiety Awareness, Take a Stand for Life, and Slow,Happy Yoga.
Feedback
"Jo is a highly professional individual who is an effective and inspiring leader. Thanks Jo for doing what you do everyday."
"Very efficient facilitator. I was touched by her openness and honesty in delivering the course. Highly engaging!"
"Jo is a genuinely warm, engaged person who quickly put everyone at ease. A fantastic coach, incredibly understanding, gentle and diplomatic. Invests a huge amount of emotional energy into what she does and will not be forgotten by any of us."