Our Team

Lynn O’Byrne
Head of Administration

Lynn is a freelance consultant with a diverse range of administrative and personal assistant experience. Lynn specialises in project administration, communications, conference and events organisation. Since 2014 Lynn has been the Head of Administration at ISBE, supporting the ISBE Members and Special Interest Groups (SIGS), ensuring they are kept informed of all the membership benefits and opportunities. Lynn is also responsible for managing many aspects of the ISBE annual conference in collaboration with the ISBE Executive and the Conference Chair.

Lynn has over 30 years’ experience working within the university sector, as well as with a wide selection of private sector clients and associations such as Enterprise Educators UK, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and the Ministry of Defence/NATO.

Sal Edwards
Head of Author Reviews and Programme Scheduling

Sal has many years’ experience in project management, financial administration, and educational and creative workshop facilitation. She has been a freelance entrepreneur for nearly 15 years and is a published playwright and experienced trainer.

Since 2018, Sal has provided author management services to ISBE, the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, in preparation for their annual conference. She is also responsible for managing the programme of parallel sessions for the event.