New Member Spotlight: Lynn Perry Wooten

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In 2020, MWF accepted many new members! Each day, we will be highlighting one. Please join us in welcoming, Lynn Perry Wooten, President, Simmons University.

 

Lynn, a seasoned academic and an expert on organizational development and transformation, became the ninth president of Simmons University on July 1, 2020. She is the first African American to lead the university. Specializing in crisis leadership, diversity and inclusion, and positive leadership—organizational behavior that reveals and nurtures the highest level of human potential—Dr. Wooten is an innovative leader and prolific author and presenter whose research has informed her work in the classroom and as an administrator.

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