Super Power: Solution-oriented Critique
Lynnea Atlas is a creative, culturally competent leader who brings an equity lens that creates sustainable resilient organizations, leaders, and systems. Arts, education, philanthropy, and the outdoors are sectors where her experience and expertise in governance, organizational strategy, and engagement really shine.
Lynnea knows how to strategically integrate and create with purpose and how to inspire shifting longstanding organizational cultures to new achievements. Lynnea is an inspiring a voice at the front of a room and a powerful coach one-on-one.
Lynnea has not shied away from the value of authentic diversity, equity, and inclusion work. It is this knowledge that powers her outcome-oriented precision and ability to accomplish audacious goals. Her facilitation is known for being highly intercultural, equally powerful in energetic ideation sessions, transformative, deeply sensitive and restorative in even emotionally charged setting.
Executive Leader
From COO to Chief of Staff to Governor-appointed Council Member, Lynnea brings 20+ years of executive leadership — managing $20M budgets, leading teams of 40+ direct reports, over 125 total in teams. Lynnea guides organizations and leaders through strategic change with joy, clarity, vision, and compassion.
Natural World Advocate
Environmental stewardship is woven throughout Lynnea’s career from leading wilderness expeditions, supervising Richardson Nature Center, being the founding chair of the Minnesota Parks & Trails Legacy Fund advisory committee, and serving on the several state and regional commissions and task forces. Lynnea is an knowledgable leader for outdoor initiatives and agencies as well as a guide connecting people to the nature world since 2003.
Equity Strategist
From organizing the first BIPOC-majority Metropolitan Parks Commission to growing BIPOC-led nonprofit participation by 200%, Lynnea designs equity into everything — programs, policy, philanthropy, and the outdoors. Inclusion isn’t an add-on; it’s the strategy and is how we are sustainable into the future.
Championing Creativity to Create Change
A CliftonStrengthsFinder coach and lifelong champion of people finding their path, Lynnea has spent her career designing programs that open doors — in higher education, the outdoors, the arts, and beyond. She delivers operational excellence that uses creativity, positive psychology, somatic wellness, and social sector values in processes and protocols. Through her work as an artist and the creative processes making thing new again or creating something that has never existed is a true skill Lynnea brings to organizations.
Let’s work together
If you’re seeking a strategic leader, a consulting partner, or a facilitator with genuine credibility and deep expertise reach out.