Lynn B.
Author, Speaker, Presenter at FinTech Advocate
Financial Services and Wealth Management
Portland, ME, USA
Biography
Lynn Bromley has been positioned at the intersection of the private and public sector for nearly two decades and thus has a deep and wide appreciation of business and government. As a member of the Obama Administration she was the Small Business Advocate for the six New England states. In this role she advanced the views, concerns and interests of small business to Congress, the Federal Agencies and the White House. Additionally, Bromley was a leader in the Office of Advocacy’s Innovation Initiative to highlight barriers, best practices and big ideas in innovation policy. Bromley was appointed to her post in December of 2010. Prior to her appointment, she was the principal of Audax Futures Group LLC, a Maine consulting practice specializing in public policy, economic development, and strategic partnerships. Bromley also served four terms as Senator in the Maine Legislature where she chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Business, Research and Economic Development and served on the Energy and Utilities Committee. Major achievements include authoring and passing the State’s largest Research and Development Bond to support innovation and economic development, building a statewide coalition to pass Maine’s first ever Uniform Building and Energy Code into law, co-authoring and passing Maine’s continuum of innovation support policy from start-up seed funding to the Seed Capital Tax Credit.
She has taught public policy, presented and testified on regulatory issues, and served on a broad array of boards and commissions, including the Maine Economic Growth Council, as chair. Bromley is well known for skillfully creating and convening networks, and for her unique ability to identify the public voice and amplify it. She is particularly interested in innovation and entrepreneurship, cluster development, energy policy, the promise of the emerging fintech sector, and has a passion for gender equity. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work and Public Policy from Boston College, was trained and certified in Innovation Engineering by Doug Hall of Eureka!Ranch, and holds a certificate from MIT in “FinTech and Future Commerce”. Ms. Bromley lives in South Portland, Maine and is a frequent traveler to Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.
Passion
I enjoy my work as a fintech advocate consultant, but my primary passion and interest in in the area of Gender Justice - how to work toward it, but mostly how to thrive while on the path to justice.
I am willing to travel
More than 100 miles
When it comes to payments
I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions
Topics
Origin Story
Lynn Bromley is fascinated by change and inspired by small acts of courage. At different times in her career, she has been a waitress, a teacher, a truck driver, a corporate manager, and a social worker. In 2000, she was elected to the Maine State Senate where she served four terms and was later appointed to the Obama Administration as New England’s Small Business Advocate. She is the founder and principal at Fintech Advocate consulting, and author of On The Path to Justice – the Dangerous Myth of Empowerment for Women, As a traveler, agitator, and champion of innovators, she is a global citizen and frequent visitor to kjæresten hennes in Oslo, Norway, but lives mostly in South Portland, Maine near her two children and a great gang of sisters. She has been a woman throughout all her iterations and is a fresh voice on gender politics and justice
Example talks
The Dangerous Myth of Empowerment for Women
In her book, ON THE PATH TO JUSTICE – The Dangerous Myth of Empowerment for women, Lynn Bromley whisks you through a clear and eye-opening argument for why women do not need to be empowered, but rather unencumbered. She charts the ongoing systems and traditions that continue to overburden and oppress women, and she suggests an approach and protocol for women to sustain themselves and each other while they work toward and await equity and justice.
Her brilliant, accessible and simple solution—the sisterhood—is at once arresting and applicable to women everywhere. She is available to speak to introduce the concept of the modern sisterhood, to teach how to develop it individually and in groups, as well as to conduct practice workshops with women,