Lynne Twist is a consultant, executive coach, award-winning speaker, author, fundraiser extraordinaire and global activist. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that empower humanity. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands to be more effective in fundraising. Lynne’s methodology is highly applicable to both the private and public sectors.
Lynne is Founder and President of the Soul of Money Institute in San Francisco. The Institute fosters the message of her award-winning book, The Soul of Money, Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. She shares profound wisdom gained from a lifetime of work in diverse cultures regarding our relationship to money and its influence on our lives. Lynne’s keynote addresses, workshops, consulting and coaching practice demonstrate her commitment to supporting individuals and organizations to find peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money.
An original staff member of The Hunger Project, an organization started in 1977 to end world hunger, Lynne served as a leader of this global initiative for 20 years. During those years she created and managed the worldwide fundraising operation. As she traveled the world learning how to work in a multitude of different cultures, Lynne developed profound wisdom about our relationship to money and the way it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives.
Lynne is also principal consultant to the Nobel Women’s Initiative, whose mission is to leverage the influence of women Nobel Peace Laureates to address and prevent the root causes of violence by spotlighting and promoting the work of women’s rights activists, researchers, and organizations to advance peace, justice, and equality. In addition, she has worked with corporate clients on organizational transformation initiatives including most recently, Johnson & Johnson.
Lynne is a trustee of the Fetzer Institute, a foundation whose mission is to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. She serves on many other boards and advisory councils including the International Museum of Women, Educate Girls Globally, Center for Partnership Studies, Institute of Noetic Sciences (former board chair), and Youth for Environmental Sanity.
Ms. Twist and her husband, Bill co-founded The Pachamama Alliance, whose mission is:
- To preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians; and, to
- Contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity & sustainability for all.
Lynne is a member of the Social Venture Network, the National Society of Fundraising Executives, the International Coach Federation, and the Transformational Leadership Council. She resides in San Francisco, California and Quito, Ecuador with her husband.
