Lynn Marie Hoopingarner, CMC MIB is
a Certified Management Consultant with over 20 years of experience
in business in finance, operations, planning and marketing. Prior
to becoming a Management Consultant fourteen years ago at Ernst
& Young, Lynn was an officer and corporate lender with both
Chase Manhattan Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. Lynn was Assistant
General Manager at Stanley Hardware in Cali, Colombia where she
conducted market research and developed a marketing plan for
successful new product launches and increased operating efficiency
in plant production for various product lines by 500 - 1000%.
Lynn holds
a Masters Degree in International
Business from the 
a B.A. in International Relations from 
at 
Michigan
State University
and speaks
fluent Spanish. She has worked in Europe and South
America. Lynn is an experienced trainer and seminar designer,
speaking and teaching at organizations such as UCLA, USC, The
Institute of Management Consultants, Southern California Society
of Certified Management Accountants, National Association of
Women Business Owners (NAWBO), American Society of Women Accountants,
California Venture Forum, Latin Business Association, Consultants
Round Table, American Women's Economic Development Corporation
(AWED) and various Chambers of Commerce.
She is a noted speaker and
lecturer. Her audiences regularly give her excellent reviews on a
wide variety of topics from International Marketing to Business
Planning.
Ms. Hoopingarner has been published
in various business journals, and is quoted regularly in the
L.A. Times. Most recently she consulted in one of the weekly
Small Business Makeovers. She is co-author of the Institute of
Management Consultant's 1999 White Paper "Y2Qué Será Será or
The Management Perspective of the Millennium Bug."
Ms. Hoopingarner was an elected delegate
to the 1995
White House Conference on Small Business and was appointed
as the Region IX Chair for Human Capital Issues and the National
Chair for Social Security Reform.
Ms. Hoopingarner is
past Chairman and President of the
Southern California Chapter of the Institute of
Management Consultants.
She
also serves on the Board of Directors of the College of Certified
Management Consultants.
Profitable Solutions Institute, Inc.
is an active member of the National Association of Women Business Owners
where Ms. Hoopingarner serves as VP-NAWBO-CA Public Policy Liaison.
Ms.
Hoopingarner is a Microsoft Office User Specialist and is a skilled
trainer in Microsoft Office programs.
