Walter Flynn is owner and founder of W. J. Flynn and Associates, LLC, Human Resource Consultants. His clients include medical centers, academic health centers, hospitals, clinics, physician practices, mental health clinics, colleges and universities, insurance, pharmacy benefit management and industrial companies. Prior to developing his consulting practice, Mr. Flynn served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center. Mr. Flynn holds an M.B.A. in management from Xavier University and a B.S. in psychology from Northern Kentucky University. Mr. Flynn has held adjunct faculty positions, teaching human source management and strategic management courses in graduate programs at Northern Kentucky University, University of Cincinnati, University of Minnesota and Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. In addition, he has presented on a wide variety of HR management topics at state SHRM and corporate-sponsored conferences throughout the United States. Mr. Flynn holds lifetime certification from SPHR. Through his leadership efforts, mentoring of new HR professionals, teaching and consulting, Mr. Flynn has strived to raise the HR function in healthcare organizations to the level of strategic business partner for executive leadership.