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Lynnette Appling is an accomplished HR executive with experience administrating organizational planning and development through strategic initiatives and programs. She has developed and executed human resource strategies to support organizations’ business plans and strategic directions. Her expertise includes ethical processes and procedures, people operations, change management, organizational development, and total compensation. Her passion is to eliminate bias tendencies, which cause people to miss intricate qualities that bring immeasurable value to the workforce. Her mission is to train leaders and employees to see common goals while developing their capacity to connect.  Lynnette is a seasoned speaker who can break down organizational ideas into bite-size initiatives. She has trained and taught concerning glass ceilings, work equity, and establishing administrative structure. 

Currently, Lynnette is pursuing her Ph.D. in Human Resources. She has a Master of Science in Human Resource Management with Distinction a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She is credentialed and registered as a Professional in Human Resources, with additional credentials in Training and development, Compensation, Employee Grievances and discipline, Organizational Ethics, Organizational Leadership, and Strategic HRM, through HRCI Institute. She possesses over 30 years of professional development experience, leadership training, HR consulting, and employment law.

Lynnette Appling has managed to live a life as a philanthropist leader. In 2014, she was the Visionary and Founder of the “I Am Healed International Tour,” which traveled to other countries around the world. Lynnette was able to unite women from all walks of life for one purpose: to see women overcome tremendous economic, physical, and emotional handicaps. 

Lynnette is an international author who has published several articles in esteemed magazines and self-help blogs. She has been featured in Promoting Purpose Magazine, Woman of Standard Magazine, I MATTER Magazine, Shulamite Woman Magazine, WOMAN Magazine, Gospel4U Magazine, and Alabaster Magazine, amongst others. 

Her first book, “A Kept Woman,” has been translated into four different languages and distributed worldwide, and it is in its fifth print. Her second book, “The Heart of a Woman,” has been a trademark of self-discovery for many women. Her third book, “Baby I Am Free: Breaking Free from Emotional Torment,” has been used as a mindfulness tool that gives guidance in emotional stability. 

In 2012, Lynnette Appling hosted a National TV and Radio Show called “In Focus,” which was carried by The Impact Network and has been seen on Dish Network and Comcast. In addition, Lynnette carried a very powerful and international radio show on both The Impact Radio and Spreaker.com, where over 54,000 listeners tuned in daily. 

As a credit to her legacy, Lynnette Appling is the former founding Co-Pastor of New Wine International Fellowship Church. The New Wine International Fellowship Church was a multi-cultural church that focused on educating and encouraging people to discover the goodness within themselves.

She was the Visionary and founder of Ladies Night Out International, Inc. for over 17 years. From 1999 to 2017, LNO was a global women’s 501c3 organization that brought corporate and community resources to women in need. This organization had invested millions of dollars into the Stark County Region through outreach and with the help of corporate sponsors and private funding. Through the outreach of LNO, countless women received jobs, became financially equipped, and received scholarships, housing items, and essential products. Ladies Night Out International traveled through Ohio, hosting conferences in various cities. It has been a staple and template for many nationwide women’s ministries.

Because of her work in the community, she was asked to sit on numerous boards, such as the NFL Football Hall of Fame, YWCA, OSHA (Stark County), and the COVID-19 National HR Task Force for the National Human Resources Association. She has collaborated and advocated for women with Malone University, Stark State Kent, Schottenstein’s, Value City, Habitat for Humanity, PNC, Aultman Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Home Depot, Walmart, and Bob Evans, to name a few.

Lynnette Appling continued with her mission to help women by establishing a successful, prominent ghostwriting and publishing company, which had been in existence for over twenty years. LR ELITE BOOK PUBLISHING & GHOSTWRITING SERVICES helped women discover and publish their writings. Lynnette has helped women write, ghostwritten, and/or published several books for prominent women around the world.

As a tribute to Lynnette’s contribution to the State of Ohio, Lynnette has been rewarded through a mural of her work in the Circleville Ohio County Library for Black History Month as one of the “Most Influential Women of Color”. She was also awarded a Humanitarian Award for the charity contributions she has performed and organized in Ohio. She has also received the  “Keys to the State of Ohio” and the “Keys to the State of Louisiana” for outstanding humanitarian work. 

Blessed with an amazing music career, Lynnette has had the humble honor of sharing concert stages with numerous Grammy, Stellar, and Dove award artists such as Tammy Trent, Pam Thum, Anointed, The William Brothers, Vicki Winans, Kenny Eldridge, Jaci Velasquez and Melba Moore as well as a guest soloist for prominent speakers. 

She has been showcased on Total Christian TV, Comcast, Dish Network, Massillon Cable, The Impact Network, Trinity Broadcast Network, CBS, and Fox. Her debut CD, “From Within: Psalms of Lament,” was the #1 requested demo CD on Gospeldemo.com for over 40 weeks running in 2001, and was played on radio stations nationwide. Multiple radio stations have honored her music as “The Artist of the Year”. In January 2006, the Ohio National Independent Artist Music Awards honored her CD entitled “Intimate Worship".

Lynnette continues to help women worldwide through speaking engagements, writing, and advocating. She is blessed with an amazing support system: her family. She is married to Jeffery Appling (a schoolteacher for 40+ years). Her adult children, Shaila (med surge nurse), Joshua (business owner), and Garra (doctoral candidate), are the pride of her heart.