Lyn Boyer, EdD, is an author, life/leadership coach and online learning guide. She began her career as a teacher and then high school principal of a school of over 2100 students. After serving as coordinator of district leadership development, she taught in the University of South Florida Educational Leaders Program. She is President of Leadership Options, LLC and co-founder of Women's Learning Studio, an online community for women who want to Reset, Retool, Recharge and Rebrand their lives and careers so that they can learn together and make a difference. As a coach and learning guide, she focuses on the connections leaders make that entice others to follow them. She refers to this process as Affective Leadership℠.
Before writing her most recent book, she collaborated with her mother, Bonnie Trentham Myers who was born and lived in what is now the Smoky Mountain National Park. They published three books on the Smoky Mountains: Smoky Mountain Remedies, Best Yet Life and Lore of the Smokies, and The Walker Sisters: Spirited Women of the Smokies.