This year's
conference promises to be the best ever. So mark your calendar! Back this year by request is the Executive
Symposium scheduled for October 29th.
The General Session, chaired by Jim Lynde, Sr. Vice President of People
for Red Lobster, will be held on October 30th. The conference will be held in
Dallas at the Doubletree Hotel/North Plano.
More details available soon.
Meet Jim Lynde, the Senior VP of People for
Red Lobster Restaurants, and the 2003 People Report Best Practices Chairperson.
Red Lobster has
been a leader in the People Report™ consortium since 1996, and was recognized
in 1998 with the first People Report™ Best Practices Award for outstanding
performance in management retention, employee retention and composite
diversity. In 2001, Red Lobster was
again recognized as the leader in casual dining in the same three critical
benchmarks, a testament to the ongoing commitment to human resources
excellence, supported and led by Jim and his team.
This year, Jim
will lend his diverse service sector experience, along with his vision,
industry knowledge, and unfailing great wit to planning and leading our 2003
conference.
Jim joined Red
Lobster in July 1995 as SVP of People, and has leadership responsibility for
creating business results through the capabilities and experiences of the
60,000 people employed by Red Lobster.
He has functional responsibility for the Staffing, Training and
Development, Employee Relations, Leadership Development, Compensation and
Benefits, and Canadian Human Resources functions.
Lynde’s
career started with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco in
1982. During nearly 9 years at PG&E
he developed through a number of HR
generalist and Compensation specialist assignments. In 1989, he joined Westin Hotels and Resorts in Seattle as
Director of Compensation. Jim added
benefits responsibilities in 1990 and advanced to Westin’s Vice President of
Human Resources in 1991 where he lead human resources for 28,000 employees in
45 hotels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
Jim
received the Elliott Hospitality Motivator of the Year Award in 1998. Of the five winners, Lynde was additionally
honored with the Judge’s Choice. That same year, Red Lobster received the first
“Best People Practices Award” from People Report at its 2nd Annual
CEO and Senior Executives Symposium for the hospitality industry, and was again
honored in 2001.
Jim
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of
California, Riverside and a Master of Science degree in Labor and Industrial
Relations from the University of Oregon.
Jim
and Peggy, his wife, reside in Orlando, Florida. They have two children, Tory and Duncan.
