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LYNNE

WHITEFORD

VP, Organizational

Effectiveness

As Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness, Lynne is

responsible for oversight of Learning, Talent and Succession

Planning, x Workforce Analytics and Insights, and

Organizational Deveopment for Disney ABC Television Group

Possessing years of experience in both entertainment and

leadership consulting, she brings the combination of real-world

practical business and leadership development experience to

assist executives and their teams.

Early in her career, Lynne was Vice President of Production and

Business Affairs for such high-profile Academy Nominated film

and television production companies as Kevin Costner’s Tig

Productions and Michael Mann’s Forward Pass. Beginning as a

production assistant on the film Honey I Shrunk the Kids (where

she met her husband), she quickly moved up the production

ranks working on such films as Dances With Wolves, Robin

Hood, Prince of Thieves, The Bodyguard and Ali. Entrusted

with oversight of daily operations, development, post-

production, management of company assets (totaling over $100

million), human resources and financing, she developed the

essential practical leadership, organizational, and analytical

skills necessary to develop leaders of today – and tomorrow.

Experienced in both the creative and business aspects of

entertainment, Lynne has had the fortunate opportunity to work

with diverse companies across the industry. She brings to her

role the business knowledge and experience of managing

cross-functional teams, fostering strategic alliances,

acquisitions, negotiations, development, production, marketing,

and business affairs. It was while working for Costner, who was

dedicated to developing his team (he had her purchase a

Gulfstream Airplane and refurbish it as a stretch assignment)

that an interest in leadership development and ethics took root.