She founded her first company at her kitchen table when she was twenty-one. After 20 highly successful years she sold her PR agency to focus on using her communication skills to encourage partnership between business and society. Leaving her London-based agency in 1992, Franks travelled the world interacting with multinationals, nation states NGOs and grassroots organisations.

She created the major UK event ‘What Women Want’ to draw attention to the changing position of women in society, prior to attending the Beijing women's conference; she chaired the UK's first women's radio station and has become a spokesperson on women's issues and socially responsible business practices.

Lynne is currently developing SEED – Sustainable Enterprise Empowerment Dynamics, a network aimed at training and empowering, particularly with regard to sustainable enterprise. The SEED Handbook, The Feminine Way to Create Business is an excellent manual for any entrepreneur that teaches how to nurture and create business based on integrity, personal values and openness.
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Lynne is also founder and president of Globalfusion, a communications consultancy specialising in ‘new marketing’ -- connecting people, ideas, businesses, and community. Franks, who has two children, divides her time between California, New York and London.