Lynne Franks is a renowned British businesswoman and founder of one of the earliest and most successful public relations consultancies in the 1970s. She left school at 16 and began her career as a secretary before founding her own PR firm, Lynne Franks PR, out of her kitchen at age 21, which grew to advise major multinational corporations and organizations. In the 1990s, she founded SEED, an empowerment program and global network for women in business, and authored several books on the topic, including "The SEED Handbook." Through SEED workshops and training programs, she has helped promote women's entrepreneurship and leadership internationally.
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2. Lynne Franks was born 16th April, she is the creator
of the best known Public Relations consultancies in
the beginning of the 70s. Lynne Franks is popular
amongst the communication world, she has reached
great heights in her career as a well known business
woman and founder of the SEED empowerment
programmes for women. She is regularly features
and writes for many of the UK's leading
publications, she also appears in international
media, television and radio on her appearance she
often addresses the subjects of social
change, consumer patterns, corporate responsibility
and women in business.
Lynne Franks left school at the age sixteen, soon
after she began working as a secretary before joining
the UK's first weekly young women's
magazine, 'Petticoat'. At the age of 21 from her
kitchen table Lynne Franks began her own Public
Relations firm, Lynne Franks PR. Which developed to
be one of the best known Public Relations agencies
in the world, advising and guiding multi- national
business and non- profit organisations around the
3. Lynn Franks made her decision to leave the PR world after 21 years as
she wanted to take on different paths, she took the path of being an
international female spokesperson speaking on the subject of today's
and tomorrow's world, both for individuals and society at large. In
1994, she operated UK's first women's radio station, she presented
her own radio show called 'Frankly speaking'. Before heading to the
UN's Women's conference in Beijing, Lynne formed the leading UK
event, 'What Women Want', to get consideration to the advancing
position of women in the society.
4. Lynne Franks has written four books, including 'The SEED Handbook:
The feminine Way To Create Business' which was published in 2000, the
book proved to be popular amongst with women around the world. The
book illustrates on how women can begin their business in a
new, feminine way, she created workshops and training programmes for
women in the UK she built her ideas and custom to live. With SEED fast
becoming the provider of one of the most internationally perceived
women's enterprise and leadership training as well as becoming a global
women's network. This programme is supported by the British
Government's of Trade and Industry's Strategic Platform For Women
and Enterprise. Many of the SEED facilitators have directed
programmes across the UK.
5. Lynne still remains and takes part personally in the
workshops and retreats established on the 'Feminine
Principles' amongst all this going on she has developed
forthcoming SEED programmes for teenage girls, women
in Corporate superiority and deprived women in developing
countries. She also went and publish several other
handbooks, a new edition of the SEED handbook was
published on International Women's day.
2007 saw Lynne Franks co-operated with The Tribal Group
who brought up their SEED Women Into Enterprise
Programme with Lynne, The programme is an educational
combination learning tool with Numeracy and Literacy
embedded and concentrates at the public sector. This is
being put on through enterprise agencies, FE's, women's
prisons other women's association leadership.