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Robert Porter Lynch -- Collaborative Systems Design Architect and Thought Leader in Collaborative Value Chains, Strategic Alliances, Trust Creation, and High Performance Leadership

Alfred Jordan --
Experienced Insurance Executive with global experience in developing and implementing insurance industry breakthroughs

Robert has been recognized for his groundbreaking work in creating “architecture of cooperation” which underpins thousands of strategic alliances in this country and around the world. He has written several books along with numerous articles and studies. He is known by his colleagues as the “Father of the Strategic Alliance Profession.”

During his consulting career, Robert has assisted thousands of senior executives in launching alliance programs for a wide variety industries ranging from aerospace, automotive, construction, energy, financial services, high tech, insurance, medical, petro-chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

FOCUS ON COLLABORATION & LEADERSHIP

For over 40 years Robert has been on a quest to find the inner-architecture to successful cooperation between humans and organizations.

After combat duty in Vietnam as an officer in the U.S. Navy, spent a decade as an entrepreneur, launching several successful companies.

His focus then returned to the quest for greater cooperation, which evolved into the development of the ground-breaking system designs for strategic alliances.

Robert’s depth of field in history, linked with his visionary insights bring the wisdom of the ages and the dynamism of possibility into the present and its challenges:

• implementing  collaborative innovation,
• collaboration’s impact on competitive advantage,
• transforming conflict into creativity,
• neuro-chemistry of cooperation,
• lowering risk in highly complex projects,
• economics of trust, maximizing value creation, and more

These elements have come together into a very simple leadership framework:  Leadership as a System -- the Four Alignments which have been called the “E=mc² of Organization & Leadership.”

He continues his quest to discover, innovate, and implement collaborative systems. Robert is deeply engaged in the next edge of cooperation, specifically Collaborative Innovation, Collaborative Capitalism, Collaborative Leadership, and  the Architecture of Trust. He is acknowledged as one of the top Thought Leaders on the subject of trust building.

EDUCATION

Mr. Lynch holds a master’s degree in Organizational Development from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Brown University. He has been an adjunct faculty member at the Business Schools of the Universities of Alberta, British Columbia, and San Diego; and has served as a faculty member of the American Management Association, American College of Physician Executives, the Canadian Management Centre and the Institute for International Learning.

Alfred is a lifelong learner and serial entrepreneur in the Property & Casualty Issuance  Industry.

He is a generalist and strategist with strong operation management skills to provide insurance and risk management based solutions for business, industry and government. 

Mr. Jordan is an industry innovator who aims to guide the insurance industry into a more nimble, collaborative, and imaginative industry with smaller insurers and risk management arrangements that invests in the communities it serves.

Al’s approach been to create highly effective collaborations between insurance companies, agents, employers and employees based on trust, personal integrity, and responsibility to others. In this alignment of interests:

• All Stakeholders in the Value Chain are incentivized to manage risks and rewards for the greater good of the system
   
• This starts at the Business Customer level:
• Employees are rewarded for safety and health goals met in bonuses and other rewards.
   
• The employer is rewarded with improved employee morale, healthy workforce, higher productivity and improved profits;
   
• The employees, in return, receive greater safety & security, team-based work environment, and often a profit-sharing incentive.

EXPERIENCE

• served as an Claims adjuster at Travelers Insurance Company, Underwriter at AIG and Risk Manager CIT Financial Corporation.
• founder of Insurance Diagnostics a Managing General Reinsurance and Insurance Broker.
• designed, developed and deployed multi company captive insurance companies for his firm Bathurst Facilities.
• redesigned Risk Management and Safety Programs for including Colt, US Repeating Firearms, Browning Firearms, Pilkington Glass, Picker X Ray, Jet Line, Garden Homes (REIT w/400,000 apartment units), and Electronics, Sabre Yachts, and All Steel Desk.

He also advised the Governor of Florida to help employers and employees make Workers Compensation an employee benefit versus a legal lottery for lawyers.

EDUCATION

Mr. Jordan is a graduate of SUNY of New York (New Paltz), Boston University Questron School of Business, with graduate work at MIT and Harvard University in Operations Management.