Charles Lynn Lowder

Lynn has an extensive, diversified background to include business leadership and management, law and the military. An experienced trial attorney and law firm executive, he has held leadership positions in several companies, to include: General Counsel-Mail Boxes, Etc., Chief Operating Officer-Colt’s Manufacturing (Colt Firearms), Chief Operating Officer-Submarina, Inc., Chief Executive Officer-Everest, LLC, Chief Operating Officer-2Toots Train Whistle Grill® and President-Recon6 Consultants.

Lynn is a dedicated advocate on veterans' issues to include: VA educational - healthcare benefits, PTSD, veteran employment, small business and veterans' advocacy initiatives. A past Director of Military and Veteran Services (University of Central Missouri), he was responsible for the ongoing support of all active-duty military and military veteran students. Foundational priorities were: education, mental wellness and job placement. *Under his leadership, UCM was recognized by the Missouri National Guard and the Missouri Veterans Commission as a leading veteran-supportive university.

Voluntarily enlisting in the USMC, Lynn went on to serve as an infantry officer and later as a JAG officer. A  decorated combat veteran, he served as a team leader with 1st Force Reconnaissance Company (Special Operations) in South Vietnam. His combat experience is profiled in two books: First Force Recon Company - Sunrise at Midnight by Dr. Bill Peters and Inside Force Recon - Recon Marines in Vietnam by Michael Lee Lanning and Ray William Stubbe. His post-Marine Corps civilian accomplishments are profiled in the book, Above & Beyond: Former Marines Conquer the Civilian World by Rudy Socha and Carolyn Darrow.

Lynn is an author, career/life coach, motivational speaker and past board member of for-profit/non-profit entities.

Specialties: Business Management (Operations, Administration, Sales, Legal Compliance); Military Veteran Issues/Advocacy; Motivational Speaker (Character and Leadership)