Lynn Tierney is one of the most experienced crisis communications experts in the country. She began her career in emergency management in New York where she held a number of communications roles at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owner and operator of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark International airports, the World Trade Center, and many other high profile transportation facilities.
In 1996, Lynn was appointed Deputy Fire Commissioner for the New York City Fire Department by Commissioner Tom Von Essen and served in that post for six years including during 9/11/01. Lynn was a member of the top management team that Mayor Giuliani assembled to help lead the city through the rescue and recovery. She had primary responsibility for handling the families of the 343 firefighters who were killed in the attacks.
Following FDNY, Lynn headed a new Social Responsibility and Public Affairs division of Arnell Group, a worldwide advertising and marketing firm whose clients included Pepsi, Mars, Reebok, Jeep/Chrysler, Samsung, Donna Karan, FDNY, NYPD, and International Special Olympics.
Lynn then was appointed Assistant Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in charge of Communications. This involved creating a strategy to promote new developments within the FAA as well as serving as a spokesperson on behalf of the Administrator.
More recently, Lynn was AVP for Communications for the 10 Campus University of California System where she served five years.
Lynn is currently Senior Advisor, Crisis Leadership at Blue Moon Consulting Group where she provides real-time crisis communications and decision-making support for clients as well as leads the firm’s educational initiatives on crisis leadership.