Lynn Bowman has been a pivotal influence in Excelle’s creation, providing visionary partnership to Amanda as she focused her mission and explored business models. Lynn’s passion and expertise in leadership growth has been an essential voice in creating Excelle’s programming on self-awareness.  Lynn is a featured speaker at Excelle engagements, she is a skillful facilitator as well as a talented executive coach.  With an unquenchable appetite for professional development, Lynn is always bringing new content and frameworks to share with Excelle women.  Lynn and Amanda are also thrilled to be spearheading Excelle’s unique Partner Coaching Model, accelerating the growth of a more robust and effective relationship between board chair and head of school.

With an overwhelmingly successful launch of Lynn Bowman Consulting, Lynn is a (busy) committed leadership coach and consultant with over twenty-five years of experience in independent schools, higher education, and educational non-profits. Specializing in leadership and team development, multicultural education, social justice pedagogy, and leading through an equity lens, Lynn is skilled at designing programs with a focus on how race, class, and gender impact leadership, teaching and learning. At the core of her coaching is the belief that greater self-awareness leads to more impactful leadership and more innovative and inclusive teams and organizations.