Lynne Franks

Recognised as a pioneer of modern day PR, where she created London Fashion Week, inspired the world’s largest Aids/HIV fundraiser and launched Green Consumer Week, Lynne Franks is recognized as a global futurist, thought leader and change maker. She founded SEED – Sustainable Enterprise and Empowerment Dynamics – a provider and community for women’s learning programmes in 2000 based on the book and has delivered workshops, retreats, programmes and on-line learning to large corporates through to women’s prisons in more than twenty countries. She was the UK co-ordinator of One Billion Rising, the global campaign to stop sexual violence to women and girls for three years; launched B.Hive, the UK’s first women’s business club; was Chair of Viva, the UK’s first women’s radio station and created What Women Want at the South Bank in ’95, the UK’s first women’s festival. She founded Globalfusion, a successful consumer communications agency with offices in LA and San Francisco; launched the SEED Handbook with workshops in Bloomingdale’s stores across the US and became a spokesperson in the US on women’s issues through high profile talks and media appearances. She is opening a wellbeing hub as well as developing POW (Power of Women), a mentoring programme to improve the lives of young women initially throughout the South West of England. She is also currently advising one of the world’s most important new sustainability initiatives which will fulfil her vision of a safe, new co-operative future for all. Lynne was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List, 2018, for her work in business, fashion and women’s empowerment.