Lynda Helton is co-founder (in 2001) and President of the Center for Professional Innovation & Education, a corporation with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania (CfPIE). CfPIE, a leading provider of quality life sciences training and professional certification courses, has provided educational classes and certification programs for many of the world’s biggest brands and companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, and skin & cosmetics markets. Before her work with CfPIE, Lynda worked as a Registered Nurse in critical care, cardiopulmonary, and hospice settings. Lynda has had extensive business administration experience not only with CfPIE but also when she was an executive assistant with Bain & Company in Boston before attending nursing school. Lynda is a member of the National Federation of Business & Professional Women, Washington, D.C. where she has been a leader working on legislation focused on women and the equal rights amendment. Lynda has three grown children and three grandchildren, one of whom sustained a serious brain injury during early childhood.