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About Lynn
She is not only leading this organization of highly capable team players, she also develops constituencies in other regions, states, and countries. At the same time, she is a corporate account executive, a professional coach, a group facilitator and a workshop leader. Her corporate specialty is Employee Owned Change® program designed for businesses who want a bottom-up approach that guarantees 'buy-in' at all levels of the organization. Her passion for personal growth manifests in The Inner Negotiation Workshop, which she leads in the Netherlands, the US and abroad. The same goes for the Coach's Training, currently in The Netherlands. Presently Director of the International Division, Lynn Stewart spends half her time managing MMS international relations, currently from Amsterdam base. Previously Lynn Stewart worked in public relations, interior design, and in elementary education. In her spare time, Lynn enjoys painting, ballroom dancing and exploring Amsterdam. People always ask me, "why Holland?" MMS didn't choose Holland, In 1984 Cherie met Frits Philips Jr. at a conference in Switzerland. They discovered that they had something in common.. a love for people; Frits was teaching people the Harvard Negotiation techniques and Cherie was teaching people how to tune in and follow their inner messages. They found their work, at the very least, complimentary. After a few years, Frits explored ways to work together. Cherie believed that Frits' daughter Christine coming to the US, working with Lynn and Cherie at MMS and taking the MMS programs was the best option. She took the Inner Negotiation workshop, the Coach's Training and worked on the Employee Owned ChangeTM program in three different organizations. Convinced that there was nothing like this work in Holland Christine told her father that MMS was special and that "Holland needed this work!" Frits flew to the US to take the Inner Negotiation Workshop, to learn more about the work, and to meet me. After a productive visit in the US and arriving back home in the Netherlands, Frits told his family about the two sisters in Los Angeles and as a result of that mutual experience he partnered with his daughter to bring the work to Holland. In August of 1988 MMS and Frits Philips and Partners cooperated to bring the Inner Negotiation Workshop to the Netherlands. Thirty-three people gathered together to take the first program and the work was launched. Frits then chose to be the first MMS licensee in Holland. Over the next fifteen years, the work was passed form Frits to Vorst Impuls to de Baak to Life Design Consultancy and all the while people would say MMS is a boutique operation and it needs to have it's own "umbrella." So in 2003 Cherie and I had a meeting. This was the moment for MMS to stand tall and take it's place in the Dutch world as a BV supported by its gracious group of Ambassadors. I chose to be the Director while Cherie chose her self appointed job as the Dutch Ambassador to America telling the world about the gracious hospitality and special qualities of Holland and the Dutch people. But the question remains why would you leave Santa Barbara for
Holland? So the truth is I have taken a wonderful side step into a 17th century outdoor museum called Amsterdam. It is my little odyssey/an adventure in living and I love it here. It is a pleasure and an honor for me/us to be here. Lynn U. Stewart
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