A Passion for the Practical

“Without full knowledge of your best,
you have only half the truth – the worst half.” Dr. Linne’s Power Quote

Dr. Linne Bourget, unique leadership futurist, gives leaders the power to predict, profit and protect. She is the national pioneer in positive strengths-based change leadership & communication systems for rapid change and quality, consulting with executives in business, government, and health care for 25 years. She is also a 4th generation intuitive and author of the Master Intuition System, started in 1980.

Results from client projects:
• Saved $20 million in research costs
• Improved financial results by 35-40%-fast.
• For groups fighting for 8 years, created a plan in 3 days.
• Did a much better job of cleaning up the Valdez oil spill.
• Helped a leader create a successful merger amidst anguish due to the heart attack of a much-loved leader, created the strategy to make the much-resented merger accepted. It was an outstanding success.
• Taking an acquisition from “orphan” status to successful integration.
• Creating a successful re-organization from an impossible, negative situation.

Dr. Bourget has a practical Ph.D. in Change Leadership (with studies at Harvard & MIT) and an M.A. in Psychology from Boston University, and an M.B.A. and B.A. in Economics from The University of Chicago. She worked her way through all degrees, making theory practical.

Her firm, The Institute for Transformation Leaders and Consultants, ITLC, LLC, specializes in practical, positive, easier, high-speed Build on Your Best systems for:

• Predicting corporate futures for power & profit.
• Understanding the pressures on leaders and the future of Leadership Power, what works and does not work, and why.
• Implementing much faster easier change strengthening results & people, with positive strengths-based systems.

Dr. Bourget blends analytical, multidisciplinary strategic thinking with systematic intuition and a dynamic positive approach. Her values: Integrity, caring, professionalism, quality, reliability, responsiveness, creative solutions, and building change on the best strengths in each leader and company. Clients describe her as: “Clear, bright, optimistic, practical, powerful, creative, straightforward, sincere, professional, supportive, respectful, a force for change”. One executive client said, “I’ve seen you do things in my organization I did not think anyone would be able to do.”

A partial client list: Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard), DuPont, General Foods (now Kraft), The American Red Cross, The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Franciscan Health System, BioTechnology General Corporation, Wyeth, Shire, The National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Defense Communications Agency. Dr. Bourget taught at Boston University, Boston College, The Radcliffe Institute, and the Federal Executive Institute.

With over 20 years of experience in public speaking, she has appeared on television and radio, and has spoken at many client and professional conferences in the USA and Europe.

After many articles and book chapters, and several books, her newest books are From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive? and her strengths-based leadership book is What You Say Is What You Get® The Secret Language of Great Business Results, 2nd Ed., endorsed by Warren Bennis, and Mark Victor Hansen, of Chicken Soup for The Soul® fame. Two questionnaires accompany the book: What You Say Is What You Get®: Your Appreciative Quotient (AQ)® Questionnaire, and What You Say Is What You Get®: Your Positive Quotient (PQ)® Questionnaire. She is also the author of Dr. Linne’s Leadership Guides, an e-book series on this website to bring leaders far greater profit power.

She is the daughter of a military officer and has moved over 40 times, in a life of constant change, adapting well and quickly. At the request of clients who took her work home and saved their marriages and relationships with their children, Dr. Bourget wrote the book Appreciation – The Secret Key to a Magical Marriage: What You Say Is What You Get® and the audio book What You Say Is What You Get® - Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages.

Visit us at our website www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com/services

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Wishing you peace and profit, from Dr. Linne.