Linda Dulye

You Can't Drive Innovation from an Inbox: Proven People-Driven Techniques to Unlock Your Company's Hot Ideas

How can you strike up real conversations that unlock constructive feedback for improving an organization’s performance? Answer: Don’t click SEND.

Instead, elevate managers in your workplace as key communicators and mobilize them to engage employees through real conversations that unlock constructive feedback for improving an organization’s performance. IABC All-Star Speaker Linda Dulye, who is president and founder of Dulye & Co. change management consultancy, will showcase practical, proven techniques for driving a Spectator-Free Workplace™.


About Linda

Linda Dulye is internationally recognized for using 2-way communications and employee engagement teams to create a Spectator-Free Workplace©, resulting in increased business performance at some of the world’s most admired companies.

A former communications leader for GE and Allied Signal, Linda founded Dulye & Co. (www.dulye.com) in 1998 with a business process approach for improving communications effectiveness. In 2008, Linda and the Dulye & Co. team members celebrated their 10th anniversary with an impressive client roster of Fortune 500 and other large organizations. Her work with Rolls Royce Engine Services – Oakland helped that company create their “Winning Workplace” and a communications program that was honored as recipient of the 2008 IABC Gold Quill Award. Incentive Magazine showcased her firm’s employee engagement strategy at Rolls-Royce Engine Services for its positive business results.

Other valued clients include Tyco International, Lockheed Martin, Chrysler Financial, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Schering-Plough, Bobcat, EADS, ETHICON, Novo Nordisk, Merck, DRS Technologies, Trane, US Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Protection Agency, CIGNA, Ingersoll-Rand, The Library of Congress, Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and Blue Cross-Blue Shield.

Linda’s disciplined 2-Way Communications© Program at Lockheed Martin has been recognized by Industry Week magazine as a best practice. Dulye & Co.’s front-line communications program for Tyco Healthcare earned the globalExcellence in Leadership Communications Award in the Melcrum Communications Management Award competition. The firm’s management development practices were nominated to Fast Company’s Fast 50 Roster for change leadership.

Linda’s expertise has captured headlines and articles in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Quality Progress, Fast Company, Industry Week, Incentive Magazine, PR News, HR Executive Magazine, Ragan Report and Total Communications Measurement magazine.

Prior to launching her firm, Linda spent more than 18 years leading corporate communications departments and programs with General Electric, AlliedSignal, Duracell, Public Service Electric & Gas and Grey Advertising. At GE, she helped introduce the Work-Out process, one of the largest and most successfully applied change programs undertaken by a corporation. She worked closely with AlliedSignal CEO Larry Bossidy to launch a global Six Sigma program.

A dynamic speaker, Linda has chaired and addressed business conferences as well as facilitated leadership sessions globally. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Strategic Communication Management journal. Her work in front-line communications is featured in Essential Techniques for Employee Engagement (published by Melcrum) in which she authored the leading chapter on creating actions teams to form a committed workforce, Corporate Communications for Executives by Michael Goodman, The Self Managing Organization: How Leading Companies are Transforming the Work of Team for Real Impact by Ronald Purser and Steven Cabana.

Linda’s involvement extends beyond communications. She is a board member for the Berkshire (MA) Humane Society and an active supporter of animal shelters and Greyhound Rescue. She holds degrees from Syracuse University (BA) and Drew University (MA). Her proud ties to Syracuse include the Dulye Leadership Experience for juniors and seniors, established in April 2008.

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