Lynette has worked with individuals, privately held businesses and nationally recognized Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Whether the conversation is with an executive, a business owner, a retiree or someone simply asking what comes next, the starting point is remarkably similar. She asks what the person wants. It sounds like a simple question. Lynette has learned that it rarely is.
Her understanding of how success works was earned before it was taught. Born in Australia and raised in the American Midwest, Lynette began her career as an award-winning Stylist before moving into cosmetics industry in 1970, where she started with a small investment and in turn built an organization of 1000’s of salespeople over fourteen years, earning awards status every year and placing first in the nation in developing sales teams. She went on to design college-accredited sales courses, lead a regional sales force as a vice president. Since 1987, Lynette was honored to coach executives and build leadership training programs for organizations of every size. What Lynette learned in those years about goals, training, motivation and the thinking that holds people back became the foundation of her inspiring message to those open to gain insights to their own possibilities.
Most of us want something in our lives to improve. We may want greater success, stronger relationships, better health, a new career, more financial freedom, a different lifestyle or a renewed sense of purpose. Wanting something to change and knowing how to change it are very different things.
Lynette believes each of us develops what she calls an already-always way of thinking. Over time, familiar thoughts and behaviors become patterns, those patterns become habits, and eventually we may stop noticing them at all. We decide we want something different, then continue approaching life in much the same way. That is where awareness becomes powerful.
Lynette’s work is centered on helping people recognize the patterns they may not see, clarify what they genuinely want and begin creating a future that feels tangible rather than theoretical. She does not believe a coach should dictate someone else’s answers. Her job, as she describes it, is to ask better questions: questions that stimulate thought, reveal possibilities and sometimes cause a person to realize that the destination they have been pursuing was never the destination they wanted.
You can read more about the thinking behind this in Lynette Robbins’ Approach to Coaching and Personal Growth.
That philosophy eventually became The Knowledge of U®, Lynette’s personal development system and workbook. Its premise is straightforward: the first step in getting where you are going is knowing what you want.
Lynette encourages readers to examine their future intentionally and put substance around their dreams. Rather than saying “someday I would like to,” she asks the questions that make the future concrete. How much? How many? By when? What will it look like? How will you know you have arrived? Clarity, as Lynette puts it, gives the mind somewhere to go.
One of the ideas Lynette writes and speaks about most often is the danger of letting curiosity disappear. She calls it Lazy Mind Syndrome. When routines replace discovery and yesterday begins looking exactly like today, our world gradually becomes smaller.
Lynette rejects the idea that retirement, age or a major life transition should mean retiring from growth. Learn something unfamiliar. Develop a new skill. Meet someone different. Travel somewhere new. Create another goal. In her view, growth begins whenever we are willing to become a beginner again.
Lynette's Story, in Her Own Words: Read the History of Lynette M. Robbins, a personal account of the successes, setbacks and lessons that shaped her work.
Working With Lynette: Learn what to expect from a coaching session with Lynette M. Robbins, or explore her work as an author, speaker and consultant.
Insights for Success: Continue exploring Lynette M. Robbins’ articles on personal growth, relationships, leadership, learning and creating a meaningful future.
