Lynda Tarras
Lynda Tarras is an Executive and Leadership Coach and a graduate of the Executive and Professional Coaching Program at the University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management.
Lynda was previously the Deputy Minister and Head of British Columbia’s Public Service Agency, responsible for HR leadership to 30,000 people working across all ministries and dozens of agencies, boards and commissions. Over a five year period beginning in 2009, she transformed the HR service delivery model to align with leading practice, increasing overall customer satisfaction by 19% and employee engagement by 10 points, while realizing a 30% reduction in the cost of transactional services.
Lynda began her career in Public Service with the Correctional Service of Canada moving to the BC Ministry of Attorney General in 1989. She held various Assistant Deputy Minister roles from 2003 to 2009. Throughout her career in Public Service, Lynda has been a change agent. She’s led large organizational design projects, developed change strategies for major business and systems implementations, negotiated multi-million dollar contracts, facilitated the development and implementation of corporate HR and business strategies that resulted in a new corporate culture and national recognition, supported the public response to a number of high profile and sensitive issues and advised and coached business leaders from front line managers through to executives and politicians.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynda-tarras/
Lynda was previously the Deputy Minister and Head of British Columbia’s Public Service Agency, responsible for HR leadership to 30,000 people working across all ministries and dozens of agencies, boards and commissions. Over a five year period beginning in 2009, she transformed the HR service delivery model to align with leading practice, increasing overall customer satisfaction by 19% and employee engagement by 10 points, while realizing a 30% reduction in the cost of transactional services.
Lynda began her career in Public Service with the Correctional Service of Canada moving to the BC Ministry of Attorney General in 1989. She held various Assistant Deputy Minister roles from 2003 to 2009. Throughout her career in Public Service, Lynda has been a change agent. She’s led large organizational design projects, developed change strategies for major business and systems implementations, negotiated multi-million dollar contracts, facilitated the development and implementation of corporate HR and business strategies that resulted in a new corporate culture and national recognition, supported the public response to a number of high profile and sensitive issues and advised and coached business leaders from front line managers through to executives and politicians.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynda-tarras/
